Soarez

Today people reported that McDonaldsEgypt's page apparently bought likes, identifying friends' likes that didn't make sense.

Twitter shows more people identified this supposed "glitch". [1]

McDonaldsEgypt itself admitted something was wrong. [2]

I commented on a friend's post on facebook about the issue and liked to the Veritasium's video about the facebook scam, and the post is now silently gone. [3] Other posts are gone too. [4]

The page McDonaldsEgypt is now just redirecting to /home.php. [5]

This is further evidence that Facebook likes are a big scam. And now we see that their policy for dealing with public problems is one of censure.

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=McDonaldsEgypt%20since%3A2014-05-13&src=typd.

    https://twitter.com/Diogocfrazao/status/466729752917995520  

    https://twitter.com/diestefanosouza/status/466712623778910209  

    https://twitter.com/Neil_Gulliver95/status/466905156110389248  

    https://twitter.com/PMiguelGarcia/status/466601518737932289  

    https://twitter.com/DJMirandaWright/status/466084060071485440  

    https://twitter.com/mattvat/status/466079234230726656  

[2] https://twitter.com/McDonaldsEgypt/status/466937575471841280

[3] https://youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

[4] https://twitter.com/tetra1956/status/466267693734445057

    https://twitter.com/SHIFTERpt/status/466540080719347712  

[5] https://facebook.com/McDonaldsEgypt

Hey Matthew,

I really am glad you want to help me find a good opportunity to work in London. But I feel we're starting on the wrong foot.

I do not maintain a CV. And if I did, I would only reflect some information that is already public on LinkedIn. I do make some effort to keep my LinkedIn profile updated. I am a firm believer that CVs are thing from the past, they have been deprecated in favor of: - LinkedIn, besides containing the same information, there are other benefits like social factors. e.g. groups, recommendations, connections, - A public github/codeplex/bitbucket (or any other kind of social coding platform) profile where one can look at an applicant's real work. We're talking real code on real projects. - A personal motivation letter - Probably the single most important piece of an application. Considering these factors, I do not see any value in a traditional CV.

This rationale may only apply to Developers, Programmers and Software Engineers. But it is after all the field I'm interested in.

If you seek some additional information that I do not have public in my LinkedIn profile you can feel free to ask for it.

If you need a document with my experience and education, feel free to use LinkedIn to export my profile to a PDF.

Cheers,