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I won’t pretend to speak for everyone, but my personal problems with Facebook are their wont to perform social experiments on unknowing users, hoarding of user
by pubutil 7y ago
I won’t pretend to speak for everyone, but my personal problems with Facebook are their wont to perform social experiments on unknowing users, hoarding of user data, especially from sites that aren’t Facebook; and overreach in multiple markets (to name just a few things).
I’m also bothered by their “free internet” programs in developing countries. I appreciate the sentiment behind it, but the way they only have a few sites that users can access rubs me the wrong way. I’m aware that Facebook is one of a handful of companies involved in that project, but Zuckerberg founded the project.
Whatever sway Facebook could have had on the 2016 election is at least tertiary to everything else, IMO. Especially since (from what I’ve read) it seems that that event was an example of outside actors using/gaming Facebook to push their agenda. That could have happened anywhere, including offline.
I take just as much issue with most other social networks, but Facebook happens to be the largest and most egregious offender of them all. I also think that Mark Zuckerberg seems to be incredibly disingenuous.