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Does facebook ever do anything with a shred of decency or just plain not-evil?

by jimjimjim 8y ago

PavlovsCat 8y ago
What I don't get is why they don't "just" try genuinely cleaning up their act. Why not be rich, stable and wholesome; why reach for filthy rich and filthy? Unbridled greed, and wanting to be so good one cannot admit any wrongdoing, can easily wrap around to being more self-destructive than selfish.
- ravenstine 8y ago
  They're not doing that because their long-term goal is to remain formless while consuming other businesses, like they have with Instagram and WhatsApp. Long before those have gone into terminal decline, they will have purchased some other trending technology. I don't think they really believe anyone's going to be talking about Facebook in another 5 years, and it may even go full Livejournal in the next year or so. Besides that fact, they never had a clean act in the first place. Zuckerberg's vision was never to "make the world more connected", no matter how many times he said it. Anyone who actually looked into the guy would have found out quickly that he was a talented programmer who happened to do the right thing at the right time, but never in a million years had the ethos of changing the world for the better. The company of Facebook never had a leader with a clean vision, nor will it ever.
  - CaptainZapp 8y ago
    Long before those have gone into terminal decline, they will have purchased some other trending technology. I don't think so. Any other significant acquisition by Facebook will be scrutinized by a very fine comb by the responsible authorities. While this will matter less in the US I don't believe that European competition authorities would allow those deals to go through today. In addition the really dirty slime oozing out of that carbuncle [and what else did they try to pull off, which we don't know yet?] also won't really help new acquisitions.

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Does facebook ever do anything with a shred of decency or just plain not-evil?

by jimjimjim 8y ago

Does facebook ever do anything with a shred of decency or just plain not-evil?

PavlovsCat 8y ago
What I don't get is why they don't "just" try genuinely cleaning up their act. Why not be rich, stable and wholesome; why reach for filthy rich and filthy? Unbridled greed, and wanting to be so good one cannot admit any wrongdoing, can easily wrap around to being more self-destructive than selfish.
- ravenstine 8y ago
  They're not doing that because their long-term goal is to remain formless while consuming other businesses, like they have with Instagram and WhatsApp. Long before those have gone into terminal decline, they will have purchased some other trending technology. I don't think they really believe anyone's going to be talking about Facebook in another 5 years, and it may even go full Livejournal in the next year or so. Besides that fact, they never had a clean act in the first place. Zuckerberg's vision was never to "make the world more connected", no matter how many times he said it. Anyone who actually looked into the guy would have found out quickly that he was a talented programmer who happened to do the right thing at the right time, but never in a million years had the ethos of changing the world for the better. The company of Facebook never had a leader with a clean vision, nor will it ever.
  - CaptainZapp 8y ago
    Long before those have gone into terminal decline, they will have purchased some other trending technology. I don't think so. Any other significant acquisition by Facebook will be scrutinized by a very fine comb by the responsible authorities. While this will matter less in the US I don't believe that European competition authorities would allow those deals to go through today. In addition the really dirty slime oozing out of that carbuncle [and what else did they try to pull off, which we don't know yet?] also won't really help new acquisitions.