4 ms·
>Meta is like one giant cancer Cancer is a great metaphor because its a perversion of natural, healthy processes. So called social media is nearly that, but ac
by kryogen1c 6mo ago
>Meta is like one giant cancer
Cancer is a great metaphor because its a perversion of natural, healthy processes. So called social media is nearly that, but actually grotesquely unhealthy.
People are dramatically unwell when they are not social, but that unregulated process is also negative up to and including being lethal.
- rolandog 6mo agoExactly. It started out as something good: see what friends and family are up to. But now: scroll infinite algorithmically placed or sponsored rage bait trying to trigger you into behaving the way that advances certain corporate or foreign interests at the expense of whatever was left of our already tattered social fabric and our collective mental or literal health.
- tinfoilhatter 6mo ago[flagged]
- CrazyStat 6mo agoYour own source [2] says: > But to be clear, there is no evidence DARPA or the U.S. intelligence services had any role in the creation of Facebook.
- tinfoilhatter 6mo agoDo you require everything you read to spell out everything for you point blank? Are you unable to connect dots? The DARPA lifelog project ended the day Facebook was announced by a college dropout no one had ever heard of before. Facebook just happened to have the exact same goals / features as the lifelog project. Must just be a giant coincidence huh?
- CrazyStat 6mo agoI require at least some evidence. Your own source says there is none.
- ohyoutravel 6mo agoI think they’re trolling you, see their username.
- tinfoilhatter 6mo agoOh yes, because intelligence agencies are known for broadcasting their moves to everyone. I can guarantee you believe in a lot of things that you have no actual evidence of happening - just some perceived authority figure you trust for whatever reason, telling you it happened. Also - WHYY.org has received support through NewsMatch partner funds, which often includes contributions from large technology firms like Facebook (Meta) to support local journalism. These funds are generally used to match donations, helping stations like WHYY increase their financial sustainability and support public media. What a surprise!
- CrazyStat 6mo agoYou chose your sources, not me.
- tinfoilhatter 6mo agoBesides bloggers / youtubers who have written / talked about this, there's a single news story returned by Google, which I sourced. If there were other articles to source from, I would have. Given that our internet was created by DARPA and has always been under the control of intelligence agencies / governments, it's not shocking that there aren't a plethora of sources regarding Facebook emerging from DARPA.
- deleted 6mo ago[deleted]
- Quarrelsome 6mo ago
- dmoy 6mo agoNo way, we've known for 15 years that it was the CIA, not DARPA, after The Onion broke the story: https://youtu.be/ZJ380SHZvYU https://youtu.be/ZJ380SHZvYU
- tinfoilhatter 6mo agoDistracting from actual stories like DARPA's lifelog program ending the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook to the world, with dumb videos from the onion, is really doing the world a great service.
- 1over137 6mo ago> It started out as something good No it didn’t. That was just like the first free sample from the drug dealer. Give a “good” free service to rope them in, always with the next steps in mind.
- Quarrelsome 6mo agoI disagree. I feel like earlier social networks hadn't yet huffed the "lean startup" gas and weren't obsessed with engagement and thus were not yet trying to hook their users into an engagement cycle like where we are today. I feel like the Myspace/Friendster and early Facebook were nowhere near as harmful (albeit for addiction, those sites were still vulnerable to grooming) as where we are today.
- danny_codes 6mo agoOG Facebook was perfectly fine. In your analogy it’d be more like someone replacing your Diet Coke with actual cocaine. Like, yeah Diet Coke isn’t great for you, but it’s not cocaine.
- rel_ic 6mo agoBeing on "social media" is a fundamentally unsocial activity: you do it alone, it makes you lonely, and it separates you from others. Some people manage to bootstrap a social layer on top of the base medium, but most are being driven apart for profit. I call it _anti_social media.