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Facebook's signature feature is that it's viral. It amplifies ideas and emotions. And it's most effective at amplifying negative ideas and emotions like rumor,
by panarky 8y ago
Facebook's signature feature is that it's viral. It amplifies ideas and emotions.
And it's most effective at amplifying negative ideas and emotions like rumor, gossip, fear and hate.
Of course the root cause is people. But before Facebook, the bad stuff was slow to spread, and geographically localized.
Facebook released an accelerant, a catalyst into the world. And Facebook has lost control of the monster it created.
- stickfigure 8y agoHuman beings can't be trusted with the power to communicate among themselves?
- BenMorganIO 8y agoDangerous human beings can't be trusted.
- panarky 8y ago> Human beings can't be trusted with ... Very few items could fill in this blank to make a true statement: "Every human should be trusted with unrestricted and amplified _____________." If you create a superhuman thing and release it into the world, you damn well better control it.