Wow, it's actually real

Wow, it's actually real.

Another pointless acquisition by Microsoft that will go nowhere.

Good thing I never signed up.

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Now Microsoft are Google, they have everyone's CV

>implying they didn't have it already

Nearly everyone outside of "trendy" towns are on LinkedIn.

That explains why Microsoft sent me those recruitment letters when I haven't updated my LinkedIn for over two years.

How many times are people going to be surprised about this?

But really though, most people who use Windows don't give half a shit about privacy. Facebook, Skype, Windows. They don't care.

All this social media stuff is literally 1984 so you not be using it anyway.

They are tying to build personality profiles on people based on their religious and political views, It's all part of some deeper cultural engineering scheme best i can tell.

>everyone

no fucks given

>he fell for the social network meme

how the hell u get a job?

o wait. linkedin is only useful for big4 lmao. o well. hope i land a grad position there

Facebook's been doing it for years. People just don't fucking care.

You forgot your tinfoil hat, edgelord. I assure you no one in the world cares about your hentai collection. Trust me.

I came to post this.

>a website is worth 260 billion
i cant wait for the social network meme to end so the stock market will tank again

>how the hell u get a job?
LinkedIn only is relevant in the US and maybe some other English speaking countries. Literally no other country gives a damn.

>nothing to hide, nothing to fear!

Jokes on you mother fucker. I don't have LinkedIn or M$ account.

I have trained my own legion of pigeons to delivery my messages in binary code to communicate with other people.

Get on my level.

26 billion you retard.

>$262 billion dollars

The problem is no one cares.

he's clearly baiting, just dont reply

Nah, they do. If I ran a porn or pornsite company I would definitely want information on that kind of stuff so I know how to better market to these people, and what measures I need to take to ensure they stop pirating my damn porn, or stream near exclusively with my website.
I'd want metrics on the porn they're downloading, what their favorite tags are on the panda, how secretive they are about their porn, etc.
Then in addition to hosting normal porn which is made around analytics, I'd hire Japanese and Western artists to literally make doujinshi, rule34, and porn comics around the clock to cater to the findings we have based on the analytics.
Then I'd sell advertisement spots on the website at a premium price to any takers and be rich as fuck.

If you can use peoples social media meta data to form personality profiles and then use that data against them to prevent them from getting a job then you will have leverage over that person. You can then force them to conform or else suffer not being able to earn a living.

Employers are already starting to ask for social media info. Its already begun.

Whoops meant to respond to

>Employers are already starting to ask for social media info. Its already begun.
That's why even though I have social media accounts, but I never post anything. Which would probably still account as a red flag, I dunno.

>Now

This site only has REVENUE of $552million, when purchasing it's common rule to thumb to value the asset 10x price to earning so that would value the company at 5.5billion. Before MS bought the company it was valued at $13.1billion after the stock fell by 50%.

MS is such a stupid fucking company, they could have waited for another six months for the price to fall further as the valuating bubble of the company deflated or NOT BUY THE FUCKING COMPANY AT ALL. This deal will never make a profit for them. I thought once balmer left MS would have stopped wasting all this money.

>facebook is known to record your data
Im not sure if i should still be using it.

Even the fact that not having a profile is basically already grounds for disqualification only proves my theory to be true.

They couldnt figure out how to mold society by themselves they have been trying for years but the internet set them back too much free speech.

Now they have found a method that works.

>Employers are already starting to ask for social media info. Its already begun.

Where the hell is this actually happening? China? Iran? Cuba? Saudi Arabia?

Any employer that demands access to your private accounts should be reported and shamed ASAP.

Now if you're talking about things you make publicly that can be easily found on Google, that's your problem.

the only people i know that use linkedin are either (1) cocksuckers who would do anything to get a job, including making a linkedin sr year of high school to start gathering data on their grocery store jobs or (2) old people who don't understand how to make a PDF so it's nice to have a website do it for you

Its happening right here in America jack.

I have been asked for it a few times already.

>MS would have stopped wasting all this money.
>They have $90 billion in the bank

Who gives a shit?

its not happening.

guy is fearmongering or crying over some retarded startup

Or they could have purchased AMD nearly 8 times

I'm pretty sure Ive been turned down from several jobs because i dont have facebook when they ask me.

You're thinking about it wrong.

Buying companies like skype and linkedin means microsoft has two important things 1)chat logs that can be used to figure about personality, religion, political viewxs, etc, and basically everybodies resume.

Add them together and thats a pretty good start to basically making the mind of a specific person. Then scrape facebook and youve basically got a persons entire life.

Also pretty much the same reason for buying nokia, they own the low end phone industry, good for tracking and stuff like that.

Shill detected.

>tfw using Twitter to load an article
>in between the screen switch there is a header that pops up that says something like "analytics.twitter.com" for like half a second every time before loading the article
>tfw know they're watching, but for some reason just don't care anymore
Bring on the botnet. I'm ready to submit.

>I'm pretty sure Ive been turned down from several jobs because i dont have facebook when they ask me.

which is against the law, but i doubt it actually happened

200 billion, lol what a ripped off.

>which is against the law
[citation needed]

Also, you can't prove it, and also, they decide whoever they want to hire.

>when they ask me.

I know emplyers snoop around for it, but actually asking in an interview? Probably best not to work there.

They don't ask for explicit control of your account or anything, they want to track your usage of it. All they ask is if you have social media. If you lie and say you don't when you do, you get in trouble for lying. If you do and say you do, they will log that and keep an eye on it at all times.

fug how to delete my account ;_;

how can you prove that it was? Also what law? Pretty sure its not a protected class.

At least i dont have NSA spying on my phone here in Europ (or at least i hope so)

You can't, haha!

Seriously, you can only deactivate, and you'll still get emails from them from time to time.

>Also pretty much the same reason for buying nokia, they own the low end phone industry, good for tracking and stuff like that.

Microsoft is laying off whatever remains of Nokia at the company.

They literally ate Nokia, then shat it out.

>At least i dont have NSA spying on my phone here in Europ (or at least i hope so)

>being this naive

spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agency-gchq-hacked-belgian-telecoms-firm-a-923406.html

Dont need to, they probably have your info backed up somewhere.

>They literally ate Nokia, then shat it out.

I guess you could say that Nokia is Finnished

A-at least im not in B-Belgium
[spoiler]fugg[/spoiler]

SELL SELL SELL DUMP ALL OF YOUR MSFT STOCK NOW

MSFT GOING THROUGH THE FLOOR

>selling when the price is dropping

Are you dumb? Thats literally the worse thing you can do.

>I don't know how the stock market works
Day traders, everyone.

I can confirm that it is not a practice we have in either Germany or France. Maybe America is like that though.

You are if you live in a western country.

The whole of EU is pretty much a vassal state to the NSA these days.

You can't delete your account. They keep all of your information. In fact Facebook actually makes dummy accounts for people who have yet to sign up based on metrics they get from people who know and reference that person. Nowadays you can sign up for Facebook and they'll literally start recommending you to friend people you know in real life during set up. Before you willingly start handing over your information. All you're doing is filling in the information on the dummy account they already had for you and confirming predicted friend connections. It's ridiculous.

DUMP IT ALL

>they want to track your usage of it

Anything you publish publicly is an open invitation for anyone to see it.

If you're posting drunk pics and political opinions out in the open, that's your problem.

You also have the option of declining to answer their questions about your social media presence. Unless you work in PR or security, it shouldn't be a problem (and if it is, I'd much rather not work there).

Yeah but your local police department is spying on you and sending it to the NSA.

Border of eastern i guess you could say. Country is working on getting into EU

not even worth buying, you would need what, to buy 500 shares minimum? and make what? nickles off of it?

Better to start with smaller stuff

You have the option. But it will cost you your potential job unless you are a star candidate.

Seriously, pretty much anything irrelevant that can be used against you will be used against you because HR people are worse than the plague and only really care about how people present themselves.

See

SHOO SHOO ROACH

linkedin has 128 million US users [press.linkedin.com/about-linkedin]

heres a tip: stop applying to shit startups in cali.

I work for a big name bank and went through FBI background checks to get my job and they dont even care about your social media.

They already did since LinkedIn leaked all their shit 4 years ago and only admitted so recently

Yeah, because you were a star candidate.

Do they really do FBI checks just for an IT job for banks? Guess small time testers have it easy.

>having a LinkedIn account
Top pest of keks.

implying these big companies have anything better to do with their money
nice

I've been in three different companies since 2011 (and interviewed with many others), and not once did my social media information ever come up.

It wasnt an IT job. I write and maintain sofrware for them along with a dozen others at my location and others internationally. Not that it matters since in pretty sure everyone who works here has to undergo the checks most likely due to some law since its a bank. There are a ton of regulations and audits you have to even abide by on the software end as well even when it doesn't seem like it would affect anything vital.

highly doubt it, if yoire not working PR or Marketing its a non issue

>tfw you don't even know what LinkedIn is

Heh. I work directly on testing final car software and we never had to have an audit or something like that. We just have client meeting up the ass.

What the fuck is linkedin
I am from germany

Actually, that just makes it more likely that they're spying on you. Nobody in the US gave a shitposting about the Snowden revelations at first because
>We're not spying on Americans, promise! Just the rest of the world :^)
But then that turned out to be a lie and then suddenly Americans cared. Funny that, eh?

Resume website, All english speaking countries pretty much have it defacto. It also lets employers search for people and send you a job interview

i have google+ failbook and skype steam but never had linkedin

Facebook for the working world. You put in your job details, experience and so on and then you "network" with others in related fields. The concept is vaguely useful but I still find myself sending emails and calling people rather than using LinkedIn. Don't think it's helped me much.

I used to work for a company that worked with pharmaceutical companies for data collection and there was always the looming threat of audits to keep us from fucking shit up. In reality they would like wait 5 year after a project was done then audit it. One of my first tasks was to fix data for some project about to undergo an audit that finished like 6 years before i was hired.

They buy literally whom?

>suddenly Americans cared
?
they do?

HR is part of the enforcer class. They are above the proletariat in the class structure due to the authority they have over the workers. They are almost more powerful than law enforcement now as they have the power to decide who gets to earn a living and who doesnt.

>leak on NSA
>traitor
Is he a hero or a traitor? Id say a hero.

Not really. It's just a minority of tech geeks. Everyone else is still happily using Facebook from their Samsung phones like good goys.

>Windows 10 telemetry
>Skype
>Linkedin

Why did MS turn evil? Did the N (S) A force thwm to do these things with NSLs?

>Having Linkdin

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, NSA/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, NSA plus Windows.

I never called him a traitor. I don't think him a hero either. No man should be called a hero for doing the right thing.
Well, more so than they used to. There was more outrage over them spying on US citizens than on the rest of the world.

MS was always evil. They used to buy out companies all the time. I also think the reason they're allowd to get away with cramming Windows 10 down everyone's throats was because the antitrust settlement that resulted from them cramming Internet Explorer down everyone's throats expired already.

The profit is the user information m$ can buy

>now

RIP
linkedin

>I never called him a traitor
I was referring to NSA officials from a video i saw about Snowden few days ago.

ITT we have a large group of NEETs telling Microsoft how they should run their business.

Ah, right. You might want to specify who you're quoting when you're replying to someone and greentexting.

Of course they'd call him a traitor, he informed the public of their wrongdoings. If my friend was a murderer, he'd call me a traitor for turning him in to the police. His victims would call me a hero.

Microsoft is very poorly run, but having a monopoly on cheap computers and an army of loyal IT and gamer monkeys means they can keep making huge fuck-ups for a very long time.

Ummm isn't that more money than Microsoft was ever worth???

How does it work?