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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 by mercer »

speedplane wrote: post #52
ilovecaching wrote: post #47

To those of you saying Facebook provides no value, here are some concrete examples: - In countries where fraud is rampant and people try to sell basic goods on messaging platforms, marketplace allows small business owners and tradesmen to barter goods. This is leagues safer and more efficient than their old methods. Facebook provides a place where people can plan events and create “websites” for their shops and activ…

> Facebook pioneered removing anonymity Not at all. There are so many fake accounts on Facebook that it's now impossible to tell who is real and who isn't. True, they removed anonymity, but they replaced it with fraud. > Facebook allows me to stay connected to people I rarely see. If you rarely see them or interact, how much true value are you gaining other than an abstract sense of nostalgia. > Facebook gives me the…

> > Facebook pioneered removing anonymity

> Not at all. There are so many fake accounts on Facebook that it's now impossible to tell who is real and who isn't. True, they removed anonymity, but they replaced it with fraud.

While true, it's also true that for most people, most of their facebook friends are real people using their real name. That's decidedly different from how people use Twitter, Reddit and the like.

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

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Post by deytempo »

Seeing as I’ve never heard of her prior to reading this article, I think the best course of action on her part would be to make a ton of noise doing good things for the community so that it increases the chances of people who haven’t heard of her, learning of her through those actions rather than these.

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

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Post by stevewillows »

collyw wrote: post #63
mehrdadn wrote: post #28

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Really? Besides "feeling good" (I assume?), I would be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about cigarette. Facebook certainly has more productive uses than just making you feel good... the question is whether they're worth the downsides.

I have noticed the smokers always seem to make more connections at work than me, even though I consider myself more extroverted than some of my smoking colleagues.

When I was a smoker I found that the smoke pit was the only area in the company where senior leadership and new, low-level hires would openly converse without the typical formalities. This often lead to people being pulled into projects they wouldn't typically have access to.

For me, I often received extremely valuable input from folks in other departments for the projects I was working on -- typically people in production had the most innovative ideas compared to that department's leadership.

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

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Post by daveFNbuck »

collyw wrote: post #64
save_ferris wrote: post #37

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What benefit does Facebook provide that no other service can? When I break down the specific features of the FB platform, I'd be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about FB.

Its a contact list. And it doesn't go out of date in the same way that phone numbers or email addresses can.

Lots of people stop using Facebook in exactly the same way that they stop using old e-mail providers.

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

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Post by daveFNbuck »

mercer wrote: post #81
speedplane wrote: post #52

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> Facebook pioneered removing anonymity Not at all. There are so many fake accounts on Facebook that it's now impossible to tell who is real and who isn't. True, they removed anonymity, but they replaced it with fraud. > Facebook allows me to stay connected to people I rarely see. If you rarely see them or interact, how much true value are you gaining other than an abstract sense of nostalgia. > Facebook gives me the…

> > Facebook pioneered removing anonymity > Not at all. There are so many fake accounts on Facebook that it's now impossible to tell who is real and who isn't. True, they removed anonymity, but they replaced it with fraud. While true, it's also true that for most people, most of their facebook friends are real people using their real name. That's decidedly different from how people use Twitter, Reddit and the like.

On Twitter, most of the people I follow are verified celebrities or people I know personally. Neither of those are anonymous to me.

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

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Post by astrodust »

PacifyFish wrote: post #26
opportune wrote: post #7

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smoking:respiratory system :: social media:mental health

There's no healthy way to use cigarettes, plenty of people manage to use Facebook without freaking out about it. The Facebook == cigarettes claim is disingenuous.

You can't use Facebook without being damaged by Facebook.

It's like lead poisoning. There's no safe level. If you're on Facebook you're on Facebook, and that alone is a problem for a variety of reasons, privacy being just one.

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

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Post by gnulinux »

mehrdadn wrote: post #28
jliptzin wrote: post #5

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Facebook is the cigarette of our generation

Really? Besides "feeling good" (I assume?), I would be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about cigarette. Facebook certainly has more productive uses than just making you feel good... the question is whether they're worth the downsides.

I smoked for about 1 year in my life between mid-junior, mid-senior high school. I haven't touched them since then (it's been like 5 years). Smoking was the single most social thing I've ever done. I REALLY do not understand how it works, it might be some primate brain mumbo-jumbo but cigarettes are somehow very good social lubricants like alcohol, maybe even better than alcohol depending on culture. This is not US. When I moved to US (the Bay Area) I saw that literally nobody smokes here so I never had the desire to smoke. Luckily, stopping smoking was extremely easy for me: one day I just stopped smoking and never once thought about it.

If you smoke for years, there is no doubt it'll cause physical dependence, it's documented with dozens of peer reviewed research. But until that dependence is developed, smoking is nothing but a social activity (and tiny bit of physical pleasure). I gained more friends this way than any other thing I ever tried socializing (and I'm pretty ok socially)

DISCLAIMER: This comment does not encourage smoking, smoking is a nasty, disgusting and infinitely dangerous activity. You smell like street dog all the time and you cough like you have lung cancer. There are better ways of finding sexual mates or friends.

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

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

astrodust wrote: post #87
PacifyFish wrote: post #26

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There's no healthy way to use cigarettes, plenty of people manage to use Facebook without freaking out about it. The Facebook == cigarettes claim is disingenuous.

You can't use Facebook without being damaged by Facebook. It's like lead poisoning. There's no safe level. If you're on Facebook you're on Facebook, and that alone is a problem for a variety of reasons, privacy being just one.

This just isn't true.

Plenty of people (millions, maybe billions) use Facebook without being damaged by it.

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

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Post by astrodust »

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #89
astrodust wrote: post #87

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You can't use Facebook without being damaged by Facebook. It's like lead poisoning. There's no safe level. If you're on Facebook you're on Facebook, and that alone is a problem for a variety of reasons, privacy being just one.

This just isn't true. Plenty of people (millions, maybe billions) use Facebook without being damaged by it.

One example, of many: Cambridge Analytica scraped information on these people. Are you sure they weren't damaged by that?

Millions of people smoke and while they don't drop dead immediately, they are damaged by it. Sometimes damage takes a long time to accumulate.

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