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I feel like picking this article apart. First three paras - Zuck is bad dude for doing what businesses have been doing for centuries if not millenia - stealing
by squozzer 9y ago
I feel like picking this article apart.
First three paras - Zuck is bad dude for doing what businesses have been doing for centuries if not millenia - stealing ideas and poaching employees. Look hard enough at VF's history and I feel confident you'll find the same behaviors.
Next para - Summary of FB's status.
Next two paras - FB turns out to not be a panacea for social isolation, not a classmates.com on steroids. Like other forms of communication (e.g. TV), it amplifies some human frailties. I am old enough to remember when serial killers would taunt TV stations. People blamed TV for that, maybe with some justification. FB's problem, it seems, stems from its democratization of opinion, especially when it plays a role, however minor, in generating a political outcome that some people dislike.
Next three paras - The bloom is off the rose for FB and other social media sites. Too many stories / rumors about surveillance / psychological manipulation abound, and social media is paying a price for that. The sharks, disguised as regulators and other social paladins, are circling, and giving Zuck et al. a taste of their own medicine. Worded quite speculatively, I might add.
Last two paras - Additional speculation about FB's long-term viability and some whistful karmic comeuppance conjuring.