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Facebook is just a giant, very dangerous social experimentation platform where none of the participants get compensated and if the experiment goes horribly wron
by james_pm 9y ago
Facebook is just a giant, very dangerous social experimentation platform where none of the participants get compensated and if the experiment goes horribly wrong, the response from Zuck is "we need to do better."
- twoquestions 9y agoGiven Facebook's "move fast and break things" history, I cannot see this going well.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoThey do get compensated though, in a way - Facebook is not an utility, people don't have a right to use it, and yet they do which IMO means they get something out of it. Not money, but being connected. A lot of people will probably object due to their romanticizing of the age before Facebook, but, I strongly believe people have never been as connected to others as they are today, never been as social with as many people as today. Sure, it's mostly in the form of text and pictures and shit which is not as er, "intense" as face to face, but it does allow people to extend their networks by a lot.
- Zelphyr 9y agoI think it’s less a matter of people romanticizing the days before Facebook and more that people are waking up to the unethical and questionable practices Facebook engages in to keep people coming back to the site. [Edit: fixed mobile type-o]
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoSlaves are compensated too, with food, water, and shelter. Does that mean it's ethical?
- jhall1468 9y agoDid you seriously just compare slavery to Facebook users?
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoI was making the pertinent point that minimal "compensation" does not make the mass exploitation of unwitting persons ethical.
- jhall1468 9y agoYeah, because Facebook's user base are unwitting "slaves" with no idea that the free software they use is provided by a for profit company that has to make money. You can disagree with Facebook's practices without being so absurd about it.
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoCompared: yes. Equated: no.