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> No. I think you're overestimating how much bad press Facebook is actually getting outside the tech bubble. If you think Facebook is only getting hammered ins
by jnbiche 9y ago
> No. I think you're overestimating how much bad press Facebook is actually getting outside the tech bubble.
If you think Facebook is only getting hammered inside the tech bubble, you probably are living inside the tech bubble.
People are waking up to the harm caused by Facebook everywhere. My non-technical friends' raging against Facebook sounds similar to what I've been hearing from my technical friends for the past 5 years.
- ashleyn 9y agoI think the watershed moment was the election of Donald Trump. While it may not have been the determining factor, the deluge of fake news claiming Trump is the only one who could save us from Obama the secret Kenyan Muslim certainly couldn't have hurt his chances of winning. Nobody ever questioned the value of giving the uneducated this much power and amplification.
- aylmao 9y ago> People are waking up to the harm caused by Facebook everywhere. If you think people are "waking up everywhere", you're probably inside a bubble. Where I'm from (outside the US) Facebook is just doing business as usual. If anything its new features are growing (anecdotally, Marketplace).