Profile Pictures

At one point in my life I thought it was a good idea to not have privacy settings because I hate when people have privacy settings.

 It is super frustrating when you are trying to look up who your ex-boyfriend is currently dating-- who that boy is in your little cousins pictures--looking up a teacher...and then all your plans are foiled by Privacy Settings.

Then I realized how dumb I was. I was essentially making my life easy to stalk simply to avoid being hypocritical...opening myself up...to being stalked.

Anyway! Getting back to my main point...Profile pictures. This profile picture is super special because it is you, and it is unhindered by any such privacy settings.

The Profile Picture is the first thing one sees. So post a picture of yourself Please.

If you are not a giant group of people, do not post a picture of one. If you are not a cartoon, Do not post a picture of one.

Unacceptable

unacceptable

There are some exceptions...like always:

Acceptable

See, the thing is, you do not know how to market yourself. If you are a fun guy, then by all means BE FUN; however, one needs to take into consideration the severity of the subject at hand. Your profile picture is a picture of YOU not a picture of someone else.

My profile picture is my friend and I...understandable because I'm not a narcissistic jerk who clogs facebook with unnecessary Solo shots, webcam shots, and/or instagrams. Solo Shots can be okay though if they are not taken by yourself. If you can't find someone to take a picture of you, don't decide its your duty to do it yourself. Its not that great/important/ no one cares.

Here you go:

Unacceptable (I cannot even find myself)

Clearly taking this one of myself. Unacceptable

Acceptable Solo Shot because its funnny

Acceptable group shot because I see me!

Obviously there are a few exceptions to these little rules. However know that when you are being looked up by a company or someone like me who wants to pry into your life for one reason or another... the profile picture is seen...and perhaps now, the Cover Photo...I should change mine.

Perfect Profile Picture

Like this and $1 will be donated to nothing

I am really sorry for the rant I am about to go on.

Like this picture for a like! 

Like ME!11?!?1?1!?1?//!?

Like this picture if you think this is GREAT. Like this picture if you have a HEART and believe Jesus Christ is our one and only Savior from the massive Mayan attack we may or may not be experiecing December 21, 2012!

No. No. No. please..NO.

Stop this right now! There shall be no spaming of this kind. Even in its lesser forms of "Like for a like." Would you like to know why? Because Nobody cares.

This whole "like for-" trend has to stop because its clogging up my newsfeed just how this was clogging my suite's shower drain.

Yucky!

Facebook is for marketing yourselves: to Market yourself you may want to post something relevant to the lives of others. If you are posting things only you like than you are using the wrong means of Social Media, since that would be classified as a blog, a tumblr, and sometimes maybe a Twitter. Or try..a diary if you do not want your whole life online, which obviously you do because it is what you are doing.

So if you have to ask people to like your pictures, than stop posting meaningless pictures that no one will like without you having to push and shove in thier faces on thier newsfeeds.

But speaking of meaningless...

"Like if you see a babys face in these coffee beans"- .... is this Real life? O! But that catch is, you have to like it...in 3 seconds. Shaking my head... People come up with Dumb things, and this is deffinetly one of them. Try utilizing your time in an activity that involves off-line interactions with human beings instead of terrible habits of photoshopping babies into coffee beans and then threatening others into Liking within 3 seconds... FACEBOOK DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A TIMER!

Baby Faces, regular faces? Same thing.

There will be no one dollar donation to the poor child that is being exploited all over the internet just because YOU decided to like it. Sure it spreads the word of what is going on, but I bet people out there just Like that picture and think "oh thats bad...good thing my LIKE brings it a dollar!"

It doesn't. The only monetary transaction you will give to facebook is if you click on advertisements. When you like advertisements the social reach will maximize according to your interests and your networks of friends with similar interests. So you will be causing some monetary transaction if you click on Ads from nonprofit organizations...however, this also works on clicking Ads for Forever21.

No money will be moving because of your Likes, Mister (Misses) Egotistical Human. You should no better than to like pictures from pages/ people with LIKE I YOU THINK SHE IS BEAUTIFUL!? or pages with the title of "Funny Funny Pictures."

If you are for a cause, be proactive about it, not annoying. Thank you.

This is really happening

Tagged Pictures

This post has nothing to do with anything important, but I feel the need to talk about it.

I hate tagged  pictures/ hate tagging pictures. I have like a billion tagged pictures, and I am kind of embarrassed by it. Why? because I am not That photogenic. I don't like being posted all over the internet.

Once it is seen, it can't be unseen. Try Googling your name/ usernames. I bet your pictures are all over that. I am, and I have one of the most common names in the world!

You don't want someone to search for you and find this:

Unfortunate 

Block people from creeping. I am positive/ will bet money that someone somewhere is creeping on your page, looking at pictures of you stuffing crabs down your pants too.

I creep all the time. It is the way i get distracted from doing actual homework. Why? I don't know. Possibly in the hopes of finding worse pictures of other people so I do not feel like I am the only one!

Put privacy settings on these things. Approve your tagged pictures because the bad ones will come back to haunt you.

Monitor Yourselves!

Sorry for such a delay--times been hectic. So as I love becoming more and more busy to the point where I over book my free time slots, and I write into a planner when I can take naps, I have realized something. I probably will get a job when I graduate. Not just any job, but one that I want.

I am the busiest girl at the moment, but yet, here I am on Facebook. Why? To lurk! Not just to lurk on anyone, but to find people I am interviewing for a program I am involved with. Just doing some research.

I like to think of it as professional stalking or lurking. So, here is a new tip, for all you job seekers out there, “Don’t be a hypocrite.”

Everyone has facebook or twitter so doesn’t lie and say all you have is linkedIn. I get it, LinkedIn is professional,  http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=85404733&trk=tab_pro, so I totally recommend it, however, https://www.facebook.com/sgonz10, also mine. Note the URLs. LinkedIn says nothing about my name, Sgonz10= my own doing. I signed up for that one.

These two sites are purposely for Different content. We went over this in my first post. But Facebook says more about you, which is why some of these kids I’m interviewing are getting straight, flat out Rejections.

If you are going to tell me on an application that you are the coolest kid/ such a leader because you lost a billion pounds, Fantastic.  Very nice that you value your health and embraced the servant leadership of helping others deal with difficult self situations; however don’t tweet about how “fat girls shouldn’t wear leggings.”

Do not delete your accounts, just monitor them. Everyone has them, so it would look strange if you didn’t. By strange, I mean suspicious, and suspicious and untrustworthy will Not get you a job. It’s called privacy settings and self filtration.

There are two people I lurk on the regular basis. They are actually the role models of what not to do, and have inspired this blog of mine. One of the two will help me demonstrate Self-Filteration:

Filtered: “Wow I wish I won the lottery” “Wow I wish I could have some kind of relationship with the lottery winner”

Unfiltered (realty):

What is worse? The fact that this was made or 48 people liked it? Hmm.

Professional Lurkers are out there, and they are lurking. You would be surprised. In a recent, mini, baby study…aka I was talking to an adviser, I—out of curiosity—asked “so do you look at Facebook when searching for employees” and he said “yes.” I have adopted privacy settings.