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Would you (or someone else in-the-know) help me, an out-of-the-loop person, understand why Facebook is reviled so much more intensely on this site than other so
by huetius 5y ago
Would you (or someone else in-the-know) help me, an out-of-the-loop person, understand why Facebook is reviled so much more intensely on this site than other social media platforms?
- tayistay 5y agoSimply because the average reader of *Hacker News* knows more about the tech industry than the average user of social media platforms.
- colinmhayes 5y agoFacebook's algorithm prioritizes divisive political content that is commonly disinformation(propaganda) because they figured out it increases engagement.
- jspaetzel 5y agoWhat other social media platforms?
- huetius 5y agoIdk, any of the big ones. Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, e.g.
- skinnymuch 5y agoMore reviled than their big tech contemporaries too. Amazon, Apple, Google. Snapchat, Pinterest, Discord (sort of), Youtube (sort of) can round out that social media sites list. Probably a few more not being thought of.
- Apocryphon 5y agoYou forgot Twitter, which imo beats FB on toxicity at times.
- TravisHusky 5y agoAt least for me, a big part of my problem with Facebook is both its size and blatant ethical breaches. Obviously most large social networks are guilty of similar problems, but Facebook jump out at me as bad because of how they use information to manipulate people's emotions to increase ad revenue. Just look at how they realized that misinformation upset people which in turn caused them to interact with the site more, so they allowed that misinformation to spread. There is also past research that involved trying to manipulate the emotions of users without the user's consent (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747016115599568 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161155995...). They take a lot of the things that I dislike about social networks and technology and turn it to 11.
- drstewart 5y agoPlain and simple: populism. It's the political equivalent of "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". It's the safest opinion you can have, so everyone will spout out without reserve because no one will challenge you on it, and if they do they're clearly just a Zuck bootlicker.
- fartingflamingo 5y agoBecause making even two pebbles fight is their business model.
- bart_spoon 5y agoI’m not sure it is. If this was Twitter I’m sure the reaction would be similar. Besides those two, all other social media companies are either much smaller or in a weird category where people consider them separate (I.e Reddit)
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- jb12 5y agoBezos and Jassey, Jobs and Cook, Page and Pichai, Gates and Nadella, (((Zuckerberg))) and (((Sandberg))).
- StevePerkins 5y agoBecause last week's Apple revulsion ran its course. This week it is Facebook's turn. We'll circle back to Google next week, and repeat.