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His LinkedIn profile states: >"Responsible for overseeing core growth components, building new systems to maximize adoption and virality and growing Facebook a
by bogomipz 9y ago
His LinkedIn profile states:
>"Responsible for overseeing core growth components, building new systems to maximize adoption and virality and growing Facebook adoption throughout the world."
Then he's quoted in the article saying:
>"The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” he said, referring to online interactions driven by “hearts, likes, thumbs-up.” “No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem — this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”
Yes its a global problem sir, why wouldn't it be? This was exactly your mission according to your LinkedIn summary.
It's interesting that these folks never seem to have moments or self-reflection or concerns for the greater good while they are sitting in strategy meetings and taking these company's money and stock options. How convenient for him that he can now make such headline-grabbing pronunciations for his own self-promotion.
- GuiA 9y agoYour view is not an unreasonable one. However, what makes you decide to espouse this one rather than the one where he was younger and more naive, worked at the sausage factory for a while, and eventually realized the magnitude and dishonesty of what he was overseeing? Both seem equally probable.
- bogomipz 9y agoLook at his LinkedIn profile and how long he has been in SV and tell me if you think he might have been "young and naive" when he joined FB.
- brucephillips 9y agoWould you have rather he not made this statement? It may be self serving, but it also serves to validate and call attention to the problem.
- bogomipz 9y agoSince when do we need a career SV executive to validate our own observations and critical thinking? The issue has been gotten plenty of attention without him.
- brucephillips 9y agoBecause "our own observations" are not everyone's observations.
- Techn0logist 9y agoExploring the repercussions of what is happening is far more important than the character of whoever notices them.
- bogomipz 9y agoThe conversation "exploring the repercussions" of FB has been going on for quite a few years now without him. This is not some unique insight of his.
- Techn0logist 9y agoHolding people accountable for their actions is important, but we're still at a point where the internet is considered by most to be inherently benign. Putting all our attention on a few individuals allows us to pretend that the internet isn't a complete Pandora's box for society -- that it's just Zuckerberg's fault.