I bless whoever hides those substantive titles in the URLs.
Did you kill your own comment?
It was marked [dead], not [flagged]... I just vouched for it to reply, I'm a bit surprised that users can hide a mod's post...
Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#12Not to be overly melodramatic and totally dodging the contents of the article, but aren't we already in a social dystopia? Is there any way of qualifying "how dystopic" a society is?
"an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one." where the hell do you live? remind me to never visit.
Probably the US! /s
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#13Why is it that every little single-purpose-at-best company nowadays acts like they are out to save the world in the most noble way possible? Mark, please! You're a spam-your-friends-with-fake-news-and-baby-photos service at best. The world will go on long after Facebook ceases to exist. Please stop pretending that you're Mother Teresa here.
It's the tech delusion. I don't know a start-up that doesn't have some grandiose vision of themselves as the future saviors of humanity. Uber, Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb, you name it... it's all the same "save the world" rhetoric.
The scary thing is, I think a lot of people on the industry actually believe their own BS...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#14Have we reached peak Facebook yet? I started using Facebook quite early in my country and used it mostly as a social network, communicating and exchanging stuff with friends from all over the world. A couple years later I deleted my account, being disgusted by the potential abusive potential of all the information Facebook had. I came back years later as it became THE tool for ad hoc social initiatives and a way to f…
If Google Trends is somewhat right, we've definitely reached peak Facebook: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook
This is likely more indicative of society:
A. Becoming more computer-literate and going straight to sites as opposed to always Googling it before clicking, even once familiar with the URL, which won't correlate to usage
B. Visiting the site enough for AutoFill to take effect, which is ever-so-slightly inverse in correlation in terms of search popularity to site popularity
Here's a FB-related search term people will still use, even with AutoFill for Facebook, as some evidence. The rise is a similar pattern, but lacking the major drop: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#15While I live in Silicon Valley and mostly agree with the prevailing morality, it's alarming to see Facebook (and others like Reddit/Twitter) move so aggressively towards social engineering the entire world.
It's like everyone builds a political army from its user base, steering it by manipulation with algorithms and bots.
This works since the beginning of humanity, I don't see why it surprises people that new technology resorts to proven methods.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#16Why is it that every little single-purpose-at-best company nowadays acts like they are out to save the world in the most noble way possible? Mark, please! You're a spam-your-friends-with-fake-news-and-baby-photos service at best. The world will go on long after Facebook ceases to exist. Please stop pretending that you're Mother Teresa here.
Holy crap, I didn't even know I felt this way, but seeing it spelled out in front me I totally, 100% agree here.
Google, FB, etc. are a bit pretentious. You are world saving because you can afford it - you run companies with huge margins that rake in billions of dollars per QUARTER.
Let's keep it in perspective - you do it because you can, you're not successful because you do it.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#17Have we reached peak Facebook yet? I started using Facebook quite early in my country and used it mostly as a social network, communicating and exchanging stuff with friends from all over the world. A couple years later I deleted my account, being disgusted by the potential abusive potential of all the information Facebook had. I came back years later as it became THE tool for ad hoc social initiatives and a way to f…
If Google Trends is somewhat right, we've definitely reached peak Facebook: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook
More like it's become ubiquitous.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Google Trends is somewhat right, we've definitely reached peak Facebook: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook
This is likely more indicative of society: A. Becoming more computer-literate and going straight to sites as opposed to always Googling it before clicking, even once familiar with the URL, which won't correlate to usage B. Visiting the site enough for AutoFill to take effect, which is ever-so-slightly inverse in correlation in terms of search popularity to site popularity Here's a FB-related search term people will s…
Agree. Another factor is mobile usage. The % of users that use Facebook _exclusively_ as an app is likely trending up as well.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#19>> If you type "how to leave" into the Google search window, "how to leave Facebook" will be the first suggestion.
Am I being too critical for thinking someone writing an article like this should know that Google searches / suggestions are personalized? Just because its suggested for them does not mean its universal.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
#20While I live in Silicon Valley and mostly agree with the prevailing morality, it's alarming to see Facebook (and others like Reddit/Twitter) move so aggressively towards social engineering the entire world.
Cybercolonialism.
I don't just mean that as a snarky crack. It's worth pondering the idea a bit. They've been headed in this direction for a while, but it's becoming undeniable.
(Remember, Facebook is more than just America. They and their stock valuation aspire to be global.)