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It's a great match. They're both hype-mongering companies which add no value whatsoever to society.
by jondubois 6y ago
It's a great match. They're both hype-mongering companies which add no value whatsoever to society.
- kgin 6y agoAm I out of touch? No, it's the 1.6B daily active users who are wrong.
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- nine_k 6y agoLook at it as at a bad but addictive habit. Hundreds of millions of smokers do harm their health, and through it their own and their neighbors' wealth. But quitting is indeed hard.
- gizmodo59 6y agoI'd argue a gif sent to someone during a heated conversation can make it light and end up funny. This goes for anything that anyone uses. I wouldn't compare this with smoking though.
- meIias 6y agoYou know what else could have the same effect? the right set of words. those are untraceable and they take up little bandwidth.
- hk__2 6y agoYou can’t seriously compare smoking and keeping up with friends and family, which is the reason that drives most of the usage of Facebook.
- thekyle 6y agoNo doubt that smoking is way worse than using Facebook. But using Facebook (and similar sites) can cause mental health issues which should be taken seriously.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoYou can’t seriously compare smoking and keeping up with friends and family You must come from a nice family. Some people don't. Some people are actively in hiding from their families and things like that. Some schizophrenics go to in-patient treatment, get better, go home to their nutty relatives and get worse again. This is a known thing.
- ori_b 6y ago> You can’t seriously compare smoking and keeping up with friends and family You're right: It's easy to smoke outside without harming anyone but yourself -- and even if you smoke indoors, you only harm one room full of people at a time.
- thendrill 6y agoSooo wait... You mean if more people smoke and more people drank, and more people did drugs... Then that means that it is good ?
- mkr-hn 6y agoA thing can have good aspects while being a net negative.
- raindropm 6y agoHmmm, 1.6B do what exactly? Scrolling mindlessly through algorithm-curated feed that ensure users always got the right amount to dopamine to keep them scrolling for hours? Look around you, people that glue to their screen all the time without realized they are being engineered to do what Facebook want them to do, is that really actually good for society? Don't get me wrong, I use Facebook once in a while to keep in touch with my friends, and in rare occurrence I even feel "Damn, I'm thankful that Facebook exist" I can see the good in them, but the problem they cause to society cannot be denied. The witch hunt, the cyberbully, the echo chambers, the life's hilight showreel effect, the "do whatever in order to get the Like", etc. (Ugh, I need two A4 to list them all!) These problems may existed since the dawn of internet, but it is amplified by social media, and many of them pioneered by Facebook.
- ghettoimp 6y agoSo... yeah. I log into FB about once a day and see some pictures of friends who live far away and their children. Sometimes people post funny things. A couple of friends occasionally post interesting or thought provoking articles. My experience as a user is almost entirely positive. Meanwhile at some level I know it can and is being used in abusive and bad ways. Cyber-bullying, sure. The ever-present outrage machine, pitting the God-loving Americans against the God-hating ones, certainly thrives there. And I once read something or other about enabling horrible hate crimes in Myanmar. And the company itself seems to be a scandal factory, bent on a kind of dystopian mission of collecting data on everyone. I do struggle a bit with how much to blame the company versus, well, the people who are misusing it. I think a constant lesson of this whole internet thing has been: you can develop the most utterly amazing tools ever, but at least some of your users will take them and use them to be absolute shits.
- missedthecue 6y agoFB has dramatically reduced ad spend waste. Not sure how anyone can call that valueless. Moreover, though you may be annoyed by your mother-in-law's minion memes, Facebook is a (free) vital communication tool for millions who are less privileged than you. The facebook hate really just gets out of hand sometimes.
- TheKarateKid 6y agoNo one denies Facebook makes good products. It’s the egregious and intentional abuse of trust and privacy, with an act now and apologize later mentality that everyone hates. And rightfully so.
- randomsearch 6y agoAgreed. This isn’t a whatsapp or an instagram, let Facebook eat it who cares.
- ccktlmazeltov 6y agook boomer. I can keep in touch with all my friends and family thanks to their app