Maybe, just maybe, Zuck isn't the best person to lead a large, mature, highly politically sensitive corporation with a view to generating long term value for shareholders.
But then shareholders can't remove him.
Facebook chooses profits over people
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#32I'm not a fan of Facebook and starting to see linkedin heading the same way, I just don't get the look at my one it's bigger then yours I don't understand this so don't join in the game. I personally feel like Facebook and lots of social media is more a fashion statement or cheap thrill. I kind of am liking it here as it's more meaningful and feels like more of an education then a show off session. Facebook's ideas s…
You made me think, is it even possible to create a social media network geared towards education (sharing skills and ideas) for the masses?
I suppose YouTube is somewhat there. But it's blended with so much crap.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm surprised that there are people out there that do not realise this
I live in the UK, certainly takes some convincing.
Lots of people love to complain about the U.K. weather and it is true that we have particularly rainy parts (eg the north west) but people also feel the cultural need to make such complaints in parts of the south east where it is generally warm or temperate and infrequently wet or windy and bitingly cold. I’ve personally become a bit of a weather contrarian, especially when talking to Americans who have heard about British people always complaining about the weather.
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#34Why the fuck should it!?! Like as if any other business in the world ever does!??
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I live in the UK, certainly takes some convincing.
Looks like those bullshit PR feelgood ads really do work on some people. I don't know how naive you would have to be to believe that $CORP really cares about you.
Pretty sure on average the sky isn't blue on the UK, specially during winter months.
Source: live in Yorkshire.
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#37People do this too to be fair. The most notable people in the world are people who hoard wealth.
We put all our points into commercialism, of course people would sell their own grandma for a few quid. We wanted this apparently.
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#38That's any for profit company no matter what anyone believes. Any company its only purpose is profit.
It's the same with company HR it's there to protect the company. It's not personnel anymore it's called human resources for a reason you're just company inventory.
And "corporate culture" there is none they are not your family there is no culture they'll fire you in a heartbeat.
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#39Maybe, just maybe, Zuck isn't the best person to lead a large, mature, highly politically sensitive corporation with a view to generating long term value for shareholders. But then shareholders can't remove him.
Good for him. He should have the right to control his own company. Anyone investing directly in Facebook shares knew they wouldn't have this power going in.
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#40tl;dr
> Lastly, it is also important to be critical of the capitalist system that allows information to be bought and sold for profit. The perverse notion that we—in the form of our attention and information—should be ok with becoming products to be sold by companies, in exchange for efficient forms of communication and human connection, should be rebuked.