Mixed Emotions on Twitter, but Job Listings Way to Go
Call me a curmudgeon, but something about Twitter rubs me the wrong way. I don’t care what Ashton Kutcher has to say, and I REALLY don’t care what Chad Johnson (aka Chad “Ochocinco”) has to say. These are people whose mouths should be sewn shut and fingers tied together just so their ridiculous thoughts and ideas CANNOT see the light of day. Twitter, on the other hand, allows them to be heard by the masses. Of course, when Ashton Kutcher’s thoughts are more widely followed than the national news, one could certainly digress into a diatribe regarding the state of the nation, the world…hell, even the universe. But such digressions are not the point of this post and, lest my curmudgeonly tendencies go entirely overboard, I’m going to stick to the point here (mostly).
When Twitter first came out I thought…oh, great, another way for the masses to float their semi-literate ideas into the “Interweb.” For those who haven’t picked up on it yet, I’m something of a misanthrope…but only in my finer moments. At any rate, that’s largely what Twitter IS. Namely, a tool that people use to hyper-communicate half-formed ideas and ridiculous notions. Like most new applications and websites designed to capture the collective idiocy of the fine populous of our nation, however, some folks thought to themselves – I bet I could use that for some useful purpose.
And so they did. So now, mixed among Ashton’s entirely ignorable drivel and Chad Johnson’s thousands of useless posts, folks have started “tweeting” automatically by uploading their blog feeds to Twitter and, even better, feeding jobs to their accounts. Now THIS is a good use of new technology. I mean, after all, everyone needs a job (for the most part) and, unless the Department of Labor is badly mistaken, there are a lot more people looking for work now than at any time in the recent past. What that means is that job listings are being viewed in droves.
At Locate Jobs Network, we haven’t yet started posting our jobs to Twitter. That will follow, mind you, but for now, our blog post RSS feed is being “tweeted” to that fine application. I’m hoping that this will balance out the less well-formed posts on that site (the aforementioned Kutcher/Johnson axis of stupidity), but for now I’ll simply have to be content that those who enjoy reading the (sometimes) employment-related ramblings of a 30-something misanthrope can be found in the ether.
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