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It will probably get to a point where employers think you are lying because "everyone" has a facebook account.

Yup. Pretty soon a Facebook account (with a semblance of some activity) will be required to get a job.

Yup, just like every developer must have Twitter, GitHub, an open suorce code repo, StackOverflow profile, professional blog, tumblr account etc etc.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3669568

Personally, I like to have a real life off the computer sometimes.

I hope you realize that you are exaggerating. Out of all of those, the only one that an employer has ever had any interest in was my GitHub account and I have gotten software dev jobs before I even had one

Thats not true. I've had several employers tell me that not having a LinkedIn account was amateurish.

Of course i'm exaggerating, I've worked in software for 10 years and never had any of those. Until about 3 months ago I didn't have a twitter account. I've never been out of work.

BUT, the amount of people that look at me funny because I didn't, and the article that i linked to just reinforces that.

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