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Google helps us lookup anything we want Amazon helps us buy anything we want Facebook helps us keep in touch with all of our friends easily Their not as good
by tremarley 2y ago
Google helps us lookup anything we want
Amazon helps us buy anything we want
Facebook helps us keep in touch with all of our friends easily
Their not as good a they used to be but how are they not good?
- coldpie 2y agoGoogle & Facebook push the advertising/attention economy business model, which rewards spreading misinformation & extreme viewpoints, leading to the rise in conspiracy theories and breakdown in discourse & trust in public institutions we see today. Amazon has killed a lot of local retail, removing OK jobs and replacing them with low-paying/low-skill warehouse labor. I think there's arguments for both sides, but personally I land on the net-evil side for all 3 of the listed companies.
- kibwen 2y agoGoogle provided a useful lookup service at the expense of brainwashing society with consumerist propaganda and the complete destruction of personal privacy and the normalization of the surveillance state. It wasn't worth it. Amazon inspired us to think we needed more cheap crap in order to inspire us to buy cheap crap that we didn't need. We aren't any happier than we were before we had the ability to buy cheap crap on a whim, but we sure do have a lot more cheap crap than before. That wasn't worth it. Facebook is essentially as good at helping people keep in touch as any instant messenger that preceded it. But unlike those instant messengers, it's supported by invasive targeted ads, and consult the first paragraph for why this is a negative. This has all been a waste. Society isn't any better as a result of these companies existing.
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoGoogle built a profit model on the original organic internet while facilitating that web's replacement with today's wonderful SEOable 'content'.