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> Okay I'll feed the troll. I'm not trying to troll. I just genuinely don't understand why someone would consider working there as a positive thing. So I wou

> Okay I'll feed the troll. I'm not trying to troll. I just genuinely don't understand why someone would consider working there as a positive thing. So I would like to know! But I have no way to figure it out as I know zero people who work there, and talking to a human who works at these companies is impossible because their websites are geared towards not allowing you to talk to them. So now that I just saw someone in the wild to ask, I figured I should use the opportunity to figure something out which I absolutely do not understand. > There are only a few places where if you implemented, for example, an effort to reduce "body dysmorphic disorder", it could instantly improve the lives of 3 billion users worldwide. Meta is one of those places. It surely is a zero-sum to fix the problem which your company has created in the first place???

ZephyrBlu 4y ago
It's hard to believe you're not trolling when you present "millions of teenagers with body dysmorphic disorder thanks to Instagram" as the only kind of 'impactful' work. What about people working on WhatsApp, or infra, or people working at FAIR or people building React, etc? The list goes on. Meta creates a shit ton of positive impact which is not at all related to "millions of teenagers with body dysmorphic disorder thanks to Instagram".
- istjohn 4y ago
  They said that was the first thing that came to mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is fueling a genocide in Myanmar[1], but as a parent of a girl, I couldn't care less about Meta's development of React when their own research showed that they "make body-image issues worse for one in three teenage girls." Then there was the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It's been clear for years that to work for Zuckerberg is to do anything that he thinks will make him rich, the consequences for our children, our democracy, and the rest of the world be damned. 1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
  - benatkin 4y ago
    fr. I'd like to see pg repudiate Facebook as he's said a lot of positive things about them in the past and YC partnered with them when he was still running YC. https://thenextweb.com/news/facebook-partners-with-y-combinator-to-spur-deeply-social-products https://thenextweb.com/news/facebook-partners-with-y-combina...
  - disgruntledphd2 4y ago
    If you look at the actual leaked documents from FB (via the WSJ), then you can see that over 1/3rd of girls had their body dysmorphic issues improved by IG. Oddly enough, this didn't get reported on very much by the media.
- benatkin 4y ago
  FAIR is not fair. Of course that acronym is intentional. It's Orwellian. There are other js frameworks. "Meta" does not do any good that comes close to outweighing all the bad they do.

ZephyrBlu 4y ago

It's hard to believe you're not trolling when you present "millions of teenagers with body dysmorphic disorder thanks to Instagram" as the only kind of 'impactful' work. What about people working on WhatsApp, or infra, or people working at FAIR or people building React, etc? The list goes on. Meta creates a shit ton of positive impact which is not at all related to "millions of teenagers with body dysmorphic disorder thanks to Instagram".

istjohn 4y ago
They said that was the first thing that came to mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is fueling a genocide in Myanmar[1], but as a parent of a girl, I couldn't care less about Meta's development of React when their own research showed that they "make body-image issues worse for one in three teenage girls." Then there was the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It's been clear for years that to work for Zuckerberg is to do anything that he thinks will make him rich, the consequences for our children, our democracy, and the rest of the world be damned. 1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
- benatkin 4y ago
  fr. I'd like to see pg repudiate Facebook as he's said a lot of positive things about them in the past and YC partnered with them when he was still running YC. https://thenextweb.com/news/facebook-partners-with-y-combinator-to-spur-deeply-social-products https://thenextweb.com/news/facebook-partners-with-y-combina...
- disgruntledphd2 4y ago
  If you look at the actual leaked documents from FB (via the WSJ), then you can see that over 1/3rd of girls had their body dysmorphic issues improved by IG. Oddly enough, this didn't get reported on very much by the media.
benatkin 4y ago
FAIR is not fair. Of course that acronym is intentional. It's Orwellian. There are other js frameworks. "Meta" does not do any good that comes close to outweighing all the bad they do.