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The problem is Facebook has never had principles beyond market share and ads, we can be honest about that one.

• djbusby 5y ago
  And that's not something the "new generation" came up with.
  • ProAm 5y ago
    What do you mean new generation? It was Zuckerberg who said “I want to stress the importance of being young and technical. Young people are just smarter.” [1] [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2015/02/14/is-silicon-valley-ageist-or-just-smart/?sh=37d961eded65 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2015/02/14/is-sili...
• DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
  > Facebook has never had principles "Never" doesn't feel right to me. I remember being in Sixth Form and then an undergrad while Facebook was in their "web-scale" days: there wasn't (yet) anything untoward being reported (besides the "dumb fucks" quote) - so I like to think that Facebook's principles, then, were more "let's see where this goes" - which isn't much of a principle, I agree - but we were all re-projecting Google's and Apple's story onto Facebook: something along the lines of "they'll make billions of dollars from giving people what they want, how can that possibly be a bad thing?". So I'd summarize Facebook's then-"principles" as believing in their own naïve optimism about the power of connecting people, but we were all naïve with them - so while it's easy to criticize Facebook now, almost a decade after the corruption started, which of us can point to our own Slashdot or Digg.com comments made prior to ~2012 that predicted this?
  • BlueTemplar 5y ago
    People have been calling out platforms for a long time... For instance the famous "Minitel 2.0" conference by Benjamin Bayart in... 2007 ! https://tube.fdn.fr/w/41d17717-3535-4d2c-8eda-58723fead995 https://tube.fdn.fr/w/41d17717-3535-4d2c-8eda-58723fead995 (fr)