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This is exactly what I'm talking about. There are a ton of people or groups where the only communications channel we have in common is FB. Quite a few only supp

This is exactly what I'm talking about. There are a ton of people or groups where the only communications channel we have in common is FB. Quite a few only support FB. Thus we have a dumpster file everyone hates but still uses.

joe_the_user 7y ago
Or they're a service that is what you make of it but that it's hip to hate, like a wide variety of other things in human society.
- ogre_codes 7y ago
  I'm sure Zuck is happy to know that there are people on HN defending his morally corrupt regime.
  - joe_the_user 7y ago
    This society is full of awful things. It seems strange to me that people single-out Facebook in comparison to whatever other forces exist out there. I think the single worst thing Facebook was documented as being involved was genocide in Myanmar, which was indeed certainly terrible. And while FB's poor policies are no doubt partly to blame here (obviously, blood on their hands), the people who actually did it, the state that aided etc, are likely more to blame. And similar horrors have been committed in other regions through mass hysteria instead spread through email or text messages (pogroms against strangers in India, etc). Which is to say that Facebook has many terrible qualities and I'd love people to come together in the kind of social network I want instead, but still, I can't see much or any unique evil in Facebook compared to many systems and processes that it just happens to a part (choose from media, capitalist, elites, whatever).
    - ogre_codes 7y ago
      > This society is full of awful things. It seems strange to me that people single-out Facebook in comparison to whatever other forces exist out there. So... you live in a cave? The piles of lies and bullshit which comes from Facebook management is mountainous, about the only companies which I feel have bent the bullshit meter as far are oil companies and perhaps Comcast and they are despised as well.
  - spookthesunset 7y ago
    Oh please get off your pretentious moral high horse. People can actually enjoy products and things you don’t like or agree with. Even more astonishing is their point of view could be just as valid as yours. Any story about Facebook, google or amazon is entirely too predictable on HN....

joe_the_user 7y ago

Or they're a service that is what you make of it but that it's hip to hate, like a wide variety of other things in human society.

ogre_codes 7y ago
I'm sure Zuck is happy to know that there are people on HN defending his morally corrupt regime.
- joe_the_user 7y ago
  This society is full of awful things. It seems strange to me that people single-out Facebook in comparison to whatever other forces exist out there. I think the single worst thing Facebook was documented as being involved was genocide in Myanmar, which was indeed certainly terrible. And while FB's poor policies are no doubt partly to blame here (obviously, blood on their hands), the people who actually did it, the state that aided etc, are likely more to blame. And similar horrors have been committed in other regions through mass hysteria instead spread through email or text messages (pogroms against strangers in India, etc). Which is to say that Facebook has many terrible qualities and I'd love people to come together in the kind of social network I want instead, but still, I can't see much or any unique evil in Facebook compared to many systems and processes that it just happens to a part (choose from media, capitalist, elites, whatever).
  - ogre_codes 7y ago
    > This society is full of awful things. It seems strange to me that people single-out Facebook in comparison to whatever other forces exist out there. So... you live in a cave? The piles of lies and bullshit which comes from Facebook management is mountainous, about the only companies which I feel have bent the bullshit meter as far are oil companies and perhaps Comcast and they are despised as well.
- spookthesunset 7y ago
  Oh please get off your pretentious moral high horse. People can actually enjoy products and things you don’t like or agree with. Even more astonishing is their point of view could be just as valid as yours. Any story about Facebook, google or amazon is entirely too predictable on HN....