Stuff, and more things

[tortoisegirl]

I'll get back to the 30 day meme soon, but the next few prompts are long and complicated and I'm not up to it right now.

I went to a presentation on careers in the publishing industry yesterday and I think...I think I need to get a Facebook. They kept mentioning promoting via social networks it might actually hurt me to say I don't know how FB works. The office I work for now has one but my coworker handles it. Whenever I have to log on to upload something or friend someone (like, twice so far) it takes me forever to navigate and get it done. I don't want to deal with people finding me though...maybe a fake name just to get used to it? I don't know, would it look better to an employer to not have a FB at all, or to have one they can find that's free of all the crap that gets people fired? I really don't want to deal with pretending to be interested in people I kinda remember from high school.

But other than that revelation the presentation was very useful, and hey, maybe that line about "something in publishing" I've been feeding to people who ask about my job plans could actually happen. I need to work on my resume. And read up on the book industry.

Still need to find something to wear to my dad's wedding reception tomorrow. I have my standard dress that I've worn to a few dressy things already, but it shows off the tattoo on my back. And my grandparents don't know that I have any tattoos. They wouldn't throw a fit or anything, but it's not a conversation I'm sure I want to have. Maybe I can find a shawl to keep around my shoulders since it'll be cold anyway. My sister's going to be late to the reception b/c of a band competition that day and for some reason I'm stressing over it. I'm kinda scared she'll use it as an excuse to skip it all together, and I don't wanna think about what that'll do to my dad. I also hope I can find my camera before tomorrow- it's been missing for about a month.

I so wish I could do NaNoWriMo this year. I've gotten a laptop since I last tried which I think would help my word count (made it to about 25k words last time). Too much school work though. Maybe I'll try to write my papers in the style of NaNo; write 3000 words of nonsense to fill the pages, edit it later.

Comments

[daylilymoon.livejournal.com]

IIRC, you can sign up for a Facebook account but make your profile un-searchable in the privacy controls. It's worth learning your way around, but I also think the less information employers can find on you through FB the better!

[tortoisegirl.livejournal.com]

Unsearchable would be great. Ideally I could add a handful of people and stay invisible to everyone else, but that doesn't sound possible if I want to actually interact with those people. Plus I just don't want to get sucked in the Facebook machine :|

[the-duckay.livejournal.com]

yea you can make your profile un-searchable to people that aren't your friend...it wouldn't prevent you interacting with those friends you have added though. You can also limit friend requests to only friends-of-friends, and just ignore the ones you get that you don't want. I know I've ignored a bunch of friend requests haha. Theres a bunch of stuff that can be changed to "friends only" pretty easily using the privacy page (you have to click "view settings" under basic directory information to do some of the basic stuff...they kind of hide that it seems). The only things that will be public will be your name (fake name?), profile pic and gender I think.

As far as employers go (if you were using your real name), it would be best just to hide everything. Thats what I do. All they can really see is your name haha. Or, if you wanted to make your "interests" public, you could cater it to your industry...like list stuff that has to do with publishing maybe.

*awaits patiently for friend request*...jk haha

One thing I'd actually suggest though since you're graduating soon is getting a linkedin account where you can list your job experience and stuff. Its also good to have for connections and stuff. :)