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You can be the nicest person and still leave behind an awful world. Really hard to argue that Zuck and his companies have had a net positive impact on the worl
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
You can be the nicest person and still leave behind an awful world.
Really hard to argue that Zuck and his companies have had a net positive impact on the world.
- systemvoltage 4y agoIt's all about perspective. I think, unpopularly but based on objectivity and rationality, that oil companies are great and have done a world a lot of good – literally everything we do today from modern medicine to farming depends on fossil fuels, it has sustained 8 billion people on this planet and saved countless lives. Without it, we would see horror of death like you've never witnessed, millions of people would die. This whole thing is a matter of perspective, like a russian doll illusion. Stare hard enough and it will rotate the other way. You can similarly see social media in two ways. Zuckerberg also gets disproportionate amount of hate compared to other media. Who's the CEO of Tiktok?
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- EarlKing 4y agoThere is no net positive impact from social networking services, or indeed any other medium powered by advertising where the operators thereof have realized that hatred can be monetized. People have always disagreed with one another and clashed over political views... but only in the last 15 years have people been so polarized, and I think we can directly attribute it to conditioning as a direct result of participation on networks that incentivize people to consume hatred for clicks.
- t-writescode 4y agoFamilies around the world and across continents have been able to keep in touch due to social networks. For all the deserved hate, some good has come.
- EarlKing 4y agoFamilies kept in touch prior to that with little things called Email and Phone Calls and Snail Mail. Ad-driven networks were never necessary.
- ohiovr 4y agoSharing memes wasn't quite as satisfying as a long distance phone call.
- jshen 4y agoYou don’t need a social network for that, just a messaging app. The idea that families would not be able to keep in touch without social media is absurd and obviously wrong.
- darawk 4y agoYou don't need them, but friction matters. You can stay in touch via the postal service. That does not mean that newer mediums with lower friction and more capabilities do not deliver real value to people. Whether or not social media is a net positive, no serious person can argue that they do not deliver value to large numbers of people.
- gsatic 4y agoWhat total nonsense! Facebook added a Like Count next every comment my family made and thanks to that totally fucked social dynamics for good.
- nradov 4y agoFamilies mostly like to share photos. Facebook works far better than any messaging app for that use case.
- jshen 4y agoDoes it? I just opened Facebook, scrolled for a while, and didn’t see any family photos. I saw a bunch of lizard brain short videos of people fighting in road rage incidents, attractive women dancing and such, airsoft gun games (no idea why Facebook thinks I’d like this), and other similar types of things not related to my family. I actually liked Facebook when it mostly showed me photos of friends and family, but I’m guessing that isn’t profitable enough.
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- psyc 4y agoThey haven’t. But a eulogy is premature.