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That made me think of being adrift at sea with no drinking water, you’re very likely going to be tempted to drink some of that is available around you, except s
by goliatone 9y ago
That made me think of being adrift at sea with no drinking water, you’re very likely going to be tempted to drink some of that is available around you, except sea water will dehydrate you even faster.
Facebook seems to make lonely people feel lonelier, the sad thing is, if making people feel lonelier makes them use the platform more then there’s an incentive to keep making people feel that way. So even if that’s not Facebook’s intention and the only thing they do is follow metrics then you can picture an evolutionary path that reinforces the same problems Facebook was initially trying to improve.
- bitoneill 9y agoI think Zuckerberg has recognized the problem without really saying exactly what it is. He's trying to fix it because it goes against his core mission of connecting people in a better way. I give him some credit for this.
- bendoernberg 9y ago"They 'trust me.' Dumb fucks" - Mark Zuckerberg, 2004. Facebook is not going to fix the problems they're leveraging to make billions of dollars.