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> Has anyone ever seen Facebbok as idealistic? That’s how Zuckerberg painted it, and no doubt there were people who bought it, at least internally. See the red
by latexr 2y ago
> Has anyone ever seen Facebbok as idealistic?
That’s how Zuckerberg painted it, and no doubt there were people who bought it, at least internally. See the red book.
https://www.map.cv/blog/redbook https://www.map.cv/blog/redbook
- anal_reactor 2y agoThe number of people who drank the kool-aid is astonishing. To the same tune, I think that if you tell people that politicians lie, majority of them will be deeply shocked, hurt, and offended.
- gmac 2y ago> if you tell people that politicians lie If you do it as a blanket statement — i.e. all politicians lie all the time — then yes, I will be pretty irritated. Some politicians spout dangerous nonsense most of the time. Other politicians can be trusted most of the time, and when they lie it tends towards 'spin' or 'being economical with the truth' (such as: "we are spending more on education than ever before" — when this is true in nominal/absolute terms but false in real/per-pupil terms). There is a world of difference between these positions, and treating them alike (as many do) undermines democracies.
- latexr 2y agoI’m not sure that’s true in general. I see many people do the polar opposite: spout “every politician is the same, they’re all crooks”. Which isn’t helpful either. Could be a generational or cultural thing, though.
- pixl97 2y agoI mean, you're both probably correct. In the US a huge portion of the population doesn't vote, I would expect those that think every politician is a crook. The other side that does vote thinks the other politician lies and their politician is the good one.
- wvh 2y agoLies, to many, are better than being alone in a dark and cold universe. Please tell me my worst fears and psychological hang-ups are not true.
- ForHackernews 2y ago>Zuckerberg's Law: The amount each person shares double each year. Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false. I (and most people I know) are posting ("sharing") less and less. Faced with a surveillance panopticon, I think many normal people are opting out. Peer-to-peer networks are withering. The internet is reverting to the format of traditional media, with two distinct classes of broadcasters ('influencers') and audience members.
- latexr 2y ago> Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false. That law exists at least since 2008, over a decade and a half ago. It’s plausible it was true and born from observation at the time. The first Snowden documents were published half a decade later, in 2013.
- ForHackernews 2y agoYeah, so a decade-old now-dead trend isn't a "law" or we could be talk about the "Iron Law of jQuery: All sites will expand until they include at least three incompatible versions of jQuery".
- alex1138 2y agoYeah but also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 So not only is Facebook historically engaging in creepy contact scraping, but when they finally do get the world connected (for various definitions) they don't even do a good job with that The strong possibility Zuckerberg just doesn't care about people