Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
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#2Mark Zuckerberg is terrifying.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
#3The irony is that Zuck is trying to solve problems created by his own apps.
Make a social isolation app and attention sink, sell virtual friends to fill the void.
The best advice is to delete your Meta accounts and meet people in real life.
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#4Then stop listening to him?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
#5The irony is that Zuck is trying to solve problems created by his own apps. Make a social isolation app and attention sink, sell virtual friends to fill the void. The best advice is to delete your Meta accounts and meet people in real life.
Staying off of social media is the best idea ever, followed by not watching TV/movies, not reading the news, and staying off of... oh, I guess I’m on HN.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
#6Then stop listening to him?
I hope the implication here isn’t that if you ignore extremely powerful people, they can’t affect your life.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
#7The irony is that Zuck is trying to solve problems created by his own apps. Make a social isolation app and attention sink, sell virtual friends to fill the void. The best advice is to delete your Meta accounts and meet people in real life.
Staying off of social media is the best idea ever, followed by not watching TV/movies, not reading the news, and staying off of... oh, I guess I’m on HN.
I got off instagram after the great capitulation and it’s done wonders for my mental health. The hardest part was accepting the fact that I’ll probably never interact with the couple hundred acquaintances I’ve met over the last 10 years or so ever again.
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#8Social media itself has become pretty bleak.
"Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta developed as a direct competitive response to TikTok’s rise, which stalled Meta’s growth"
"Social" media is just media now.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
#9Social media itself has become pretty bleak. "Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta develo…
Re: Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
#10Mark became an expert at catering to investors' ears to pump the stock: buybacks, dividends, metaverse, AI...