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"All of us, when we are uploading something, when we are tagging people, when we are commenting, we are basically working for Facebook," Tapping, scrolling and
by rayday 9y ago
"All of us, when we are uploading something, when we are tagging people, when we are commenting, we are basically working for Facebook,"
Tapping, scrolling and even just having the app with Location Services installed means we are actively working for Facebook, and Facebook is actively working on us.
We are effectively lab rats to this self-perpetuating Orwellian superbeing. Nothing will stop it. It will use any means necessary to increase its yield of attention spend. Increases in HCI bandwidth will only extend its tentacles, eventually digging an orifice into our brains, Matrix/Neuralink-style, to run tests on us about how to better harvest us.
Before that, some of us will already be living on Planet Oculus.
The next Trust has earned that status like 5 years ago, yet here we are, still just gathering data.
The resource it trades in is intrinsically more valuable to Man than Oil. How much do you value your time, considering that is how you measure life? 2B users, people. How many lifetimes are spent a second on Facebook?
I fear we may regret this in the future.
- 659087 9y agoIf we were smarter as a species, we would have started regretting it a long time ago.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoTed Kazinski (the Unabomber, who tried to slow technological progress through terrorism) tried the path of regret and it didn't work out well. Is there another branch on that path that you think works better? My attitude is: let's accept that things are changing, but try to build tools that make people better equipped to deal with the bad stuff we anticipate happening.
- erikpukinskis 9y ago... until someone releases the Tentacled Superbeing App, where you can create your own tentacled superbeing. Problem solved. Once kids can do it too it loses its power.