In 140 characters or fewer, this is why I love social media:
@themediaishirin Helping laid off media employees find new work 140 characters at a time. Email us at mediaishiring@gmail.com
Reasons why this is awesome:
1) A 140 character resume as a serious way to find a new job? Hells yeah. You can’t get more FIO than that, unless the world is reduced to communicating via meaningful glances or tongue clicks.
2) The name is really themediaishiring. But the dude either mistyped and left off the “g” or that was too long a username. Does he sweat it? Nope–in the awesome world of social media stuff like that just doesn’t matter.
In traditional communications there are all kinds of rules: you have to have a journalism degree; you have to proof and edit and proof again–mistakes are forbidden; you have to use correct punctuation; you have to use italics and footnotes with subscripts and all that kind of stuff.
But in “new” media? Fuck that shit. Forget the “g” on the end of your name? Makes it more authentic. Italics? So old-school. Typos? Whatever–everyone knows bloggers are so busy furiously expressing themselves that they can’t be bothered with editing or proofing. And don’t even think of hiring someone to edit for you–that’s a big no-no; again with the authenticity.
And times like now, when I started a post but have to be somewhere in 5 minutes so don’t have time to think of a snappy ending–no matter.
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