Posted on 12/11/2017 11:08:57 AM PST by x1stcav
Another former Facebook executive has spoken out about the harm the social network is doing to civil society around the world. Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, said he feels “tremendous guilt” about the company he helped make. “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” he told an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business, before recommending people take a “hard break” from social media.
Palihapitiya’s criticisms were aimed not only at Facebook, but the wider online ecosystem. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” he said, referring to online interactions driven by “hearts, likes, thumbs-up.” “No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem — this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”
He went on to describe an incident in India where hoax messages about kidnappings shared on WhatsApp led to the lynching of seven innocent people. “That’s what we’re dealing with,” said Palihapitiya. “And imagine taking that to the extreme, where bad actors can now manipulate large swathes of people to do anything you want. It’s just a really, really bad state of affairs.” He says he tries to use Facebook as little as possible, and that his children “aren’t allowed to use that shit.” He later adds, though, that he believes the company “overwhelmingly does good in the world.”
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Sounds like a responsible parent.
Or a liar.
Most social media places the users into the mental universe of cruel middle school girls at recess.
Yet he didnt do a damn thing nor say anything when he was an exec earning millions. Hypocrite.
Joseph Goebbels didn't use facebook.
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Ping.
We also didn't let our boys do drivers training until they made Eagle.
There are rewards for being a tough parent.
I don't know anyone under 25 who uses Facebook
Fortunately, I don’t use any Social Media. I spend all my time on FR.
;>)
“Fortunately, I don’t use any Social Media. I spend all my time on FR.”
Hahahaah!!!
Good rules. That’s pretty much what we did, too, and it worked out real well.
We had a shared family computer. Only one TV in the living room. No TVs in bedrooms. Kids got their own laptops and phones when they went off to college. I like the idea of no driving until Eagle Scout and making them pay for their own cell phones.
Video games were not allowed in our house except for a bare handful of carefully controlled computer games that were mainly disguised education (e.g., “Oregon Trail”). These were all out in the open on the family computer.
We did relent and let our son get an X-Box when he was a senior in HS. But, interestingly enough, he quickly outgrew it and within months it was gathering dust. Football, Baseball, Boy Scouts, family hikes and outings all took precedence. He sold it when he was in college.
High tech + low IQ = crap!
It’s sort of like giving AK weapons to boys in underdeveloped countries.
If you leap-frog education, discernment, maturity, basic humanity, etc. and then expect the idiots with all that power to behave responsibly ... yes, this is what you get.
People come up with some great ideas. When implemented they turn into terrible ideas.
Facebook meets reality...
I’ve never been a big user of facebook but recently I’ve dropped to visiting once or twice per week. I just don’t care to spend the energy writing about what I’m doing.
If I do comment or “like” something, it is only occasionally and every 3 months or so, I delete all the activity on my news feed.
Yes it is.
Don’t Fakebook.
This will dwarf the tobacco settlements. Let’s make the Silicon Valley moguls pariahs, using social media to do it...
Social media has certainly revealed how intolerant and hateful a lot of celebrities are.
the internet is destroying civilized society. It’s porn, porn and more porn. Drug addicts can buy their drug of choice online through the dark web. Actually, you can find any disgusting perversion you are into on the dark web, including child porn. The internet has a lot of good things about it but the evil that permeates it, ruins it.
“He later adds, though, that he believes the company ‘overwhelmingly does good in the world.’”
So it’s ripping society apart, but overwhelmingly does good.
Alrighty, then.
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