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Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

smoking:respiratory system :: social media:mental health

All due respect, smoke causes cancer, images don't cause mental health problems. If cigarettes weren't addictive they'd still be REALLY bad for you. The problem with Facebook (or current Social Media) is that it IS addictive, and therefore bad, if it wasn't addictive it wouldn't necessarily be bad for you.

Talk to child exploitation workers who have nervous breakdowns over the images they see.

Images do cause mental health issues.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

#16
Fixing Facebook isn't a hard problem. Fixing it while keeping advertisers happy is pretty much impossible. If you try to be more vigilant on privacy settings then you give advertisers less choices to target people. And with Amazon moving into the ad market aggressively, and Google being the behemoth that they are the last thing you want is to hurt your advertising platform.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

smoking:respiratory system :: social media:mental health

All due respect, smoke causes cancer, images don't cause mental health problems. If cigarettes weren't addictive they'd still be REALLY bad for you. The problem with Facebook (or current Social Media) is that it IS addictive, and therefore bad, if it wasn't addictive it wouldn't necessarily be bad for you.

> images don't cause mental health problems

This is categorically false.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

#19
post #12

There is nothing FB or Sandberg can do to fix Facebook's reputation in my mind. I have deleted most of the content I have posted to FB and keep my account only because I sometimes use Messenger.

I've noticed most of the current gen college kids are very sparing of their fb use (at least the computer saavy ones). It seems to me (disclaimer: completely anecdotal) that the previous gen and previous-gen^2 (ie circa 2008-2016) generation of college-age kids were the ones who were much less restricted in their use of fb.
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