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Facebook can have some positive values, while still when taken as a whole be an overwhelming societal net negative.
by jbigelow76 5y ago
Facebook can have some positive values, while still when taken as a whole be an overwhelming societal net negative.
- baby 5y agoFacebook can have some negative values, while still when taken as a whole be an overwhelming societal net positive.
- nixass 5y agoSuch as? What are the good things that Facebook does that make them net positives?
- baby 5y agoI think you’re suffering confirmation bias or bubble mentality if you cannot see any positive
- jbigelow76 5y agoTreating "net negative" as equivalent to "cannot see any positive" is disingenuous.
- baby 5y agoAgree, so is the reverse
- jbigelow76 5y agoBut I never said the reverse, you're putting words in my mouth by way of the parent comment. Sure letting extended family members stay in touch is a good thing. Keeping childhood/high school relationships going past when they might previously have ended is probably good thing (I'm skeptical but I'd like to be wrong.) But when those goals have to come at the expense of subversion of democratic institutions (elections of which no fraud can be found) and at the expense of scientific data that is deluding people to think that vaccinations are suspect I'll draw the line. FB does (and enriches itself from) far more damage to society than which it provides.
- jbigelow76 5y agoOh please regale me with tales of how Donald Trump won the election in 2020 and Bill Gates is implanting us all with tracking chips through vaccines just so I can see pics of the grand kids, they do the darndest things.
- baby 5y agoTrump won the election in 2016 because half the country voted for him, and because there is no popular vote in the US, and because there is a lack of education in the US.
- kmonsen 5y agoPlease say you mean he won the 2016 election for those reasons. He clearly lost the 2020 election.
- jbigelow76 5y agoHalf (50%) of the country did not in fact vote for Trump. Biden won 51.3% of the popular vote and Trump won 46.8% of the popular vote [1]. Nor did Trump win the Electoral College vote, 306 to 232 for Biden[2] there is a lack of education in the US On this we agree, but I'm sure in very different regards. [1] https://www.cfr.org/blog/2020-election-numbers https://www.cfr.org/blog/2020-election-numbers [2] https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020 https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020 Edit: (no change) gp changed their comment to shift their point to a different election cycle, big difference.
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