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Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
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#23At what point does: - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation? The harmful effects of smoking were covered up for almost a century, much as the impact of mass remote dopamine manipulation is not as prolific.
We’re here I think. I’ve seen a few hiring threads on other communities where the topic came up and there was a healthy sample of “will never a former Fbook/Meta” prognosticators in the room
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#24At what point does: - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation? The harmful effects of smoking were covered up for almost a century, much as the impact of mass remote dopamine manipulation is not as prolific.
It already does. I spoke to several trainees that don't want companies like Facebook or Shell on their resume. Problem is those companies start to attract people that thrive in toxic cultures, worsening the problem.
Why is Shell so bad? I spoke to a Shell employee the other day and the guy couldn't stop talking about all the great things they are doing for the environment and with new green technologies. /s
Re: Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
#25At what point does: - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation? The harmful effects of smoking were covered up for almost a century, much as the impact of mass remote dopamine manipulation is not as prolific.
> - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't
Why would it hurt you? They're at the forefront of technical challenges of scaling an immensely popular product and developing internal tooling. These aren't necessarily applicable everywhere, but they're incredibly valuable. If anything, I think the fact that they're working at a place where a very vocal minority of their peers jeers at is a positive signal. They can withstand a snarky comment from some hipster at a party to potentially work on interesting technical challenges (money is good too).
> - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral
I think you're in a bubble. Facebook is a very popular brand name outside of a very vocal minority of internet commenters and tech journalists. They have a few of the most popular consumer apps in the world with 3 billion total users across the products. When you consider their products in open source like GraphQL and React, it's even more.
I get it, you don't like Facebook. But don't gaslight yourself into thinking they're some toxic entity that everyone hates and is on the verge of irrelevance
Re: Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
#26At what point does: - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation? The harmful effects of smoking were covered up for almost a century, much as the impact of mass remote dopamine manipulation is not as prolific.
I, for one, won't touch anything with Zuck's fingerprints on it. Oculus is dead to me and many other game developers.
But that is balanced out by having Carmack's prints on it. He has status as a God on HN.
Re: Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
#27At what point does: - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation? The harmful effects of smoking were covered up for almost a century, much as the impact of mass remote dopamine manipulation is not as prolific.
> Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation?
Yes. It is a digital pharmaceuticals drugs company and it was 'addictive' for the previous generation back then. Not so for this generation as it has no effect on them. Facebook™ and Instagram™ do not work on them anymore.
The new digital crack / cocaine is TikTok™, manufactured by ByteDance. Another generation will find another 'hit' to be addicted to once they get bored off on this one.
Rinse and repeat.
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#28They still haven't learned a thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/12/facebook-...
Re: Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
#29At what point does: - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation? The harmful effects of smoking were covered up for almost a century, much as the impact of mass remote dopamine manipulation is not as prolific.
It seems the whole industry considers underhanded tactics a good thing. Facebook has been exploiting users' phonebooks from Day 1, it's not new. It's just that the industry bent towards facebook-like rather than the reverse
Re: Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
#30At what point does: - having Facebook/Meta experience on your resume starts hurting you against others who don't - selling your company to Facebook/Meta or product on it hurts your brand and perceived to be immoral Is Facebook/Meta the Tobacco company of our generation? The harmful effects of smoking were covered up for almost a century, much as the impact of mass remote dopamine manipulation is not as prolific.
It already does. I spoke to several trainees that don't want companies like Facebook or Shell on their resume. Problem is those companies start to attract people that thrive in toxic cultures, worsening the problem.
There's a good book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1476637.Political_Ponero...