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Aside from the great comment below there is another reason why this is unfair. A new technology emerged. Society so thoroughly embraced it we may as well call i
by DSingularity 8y ago
Aside from the great comment below there is another reason why this is unfair. A new technology emerged. Society so thoroughly embraced it we may as well call it a utility. Now, they monetize it in ways which - had they done before they established market dominance - would likely have made society flee Facebook instead of embrace it.
Society was conned. Suckered in and now — once our society has become almost dependent on FB - we are being exploited!
- Mirioron 8y agoWas society really conned with Facebook? I can understand if you are talking about MySpace, but it was very obvious what Facebook's monetization model was going to be ever since they opened up globally. This is why I never signed up and was confused when so many people freely joined and gave up all of that information. The other part is that if Facebook doesn't monetize things in a rather shady manner then we probably wouldn't have Facebook at this point or it would be operating at a loss like many of the other social media sites, eg reddit.
- icelancer 8y ago> Was society really conned with Facebook? No. It's just gotten to the point in society where individual decisions are becoming eroded to nearly meaningless and it is now only safe to assume that the average person is a complete idiot and not in control of their own faculties.
- zepto 8y agoIt doesn’t matter how much individual responsibility you take, you can still be betrayed. That’s what Facebook has done.