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- Hacker News
- What? But that's impossible! Who would have thought?by cretinoid
- How is this news? We knew that already, are we supposed to be shocked and horrified?by cloudie78
- At some point Zuckerberg should spend some time in a jail cell. Fines aren't moving the needle.
- Stanford used to have a "persuasion technology" ("Facebook") class for deliberately maximizing trustworthiness and manipulating users. Interaction and style design are like nonverbal behavior: it's never "apolitical" or "unbiased", unavoidably omnipresent, and has real-world consequences, especially at scale.
- I only use facebook in like once a month and have 50 friends there from school time. But every-time I log-in, the facebook feed recommends me the most outrageous and triggering posts from total strangers, I don't follow them or my friends don't follow them either.
But facebook is like, you know what, I think you should read this scummy post.
Absolute trash place.
by tonis2 - Nothing matters when money is on the line.by sidcool
- I finally got around to reading "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Not surprised at all by this headline. I quit Facebook and Instagram several years ago but was motivated to finally quit WhatsApp after reading that book. Can't support this morally-bankrupt company.by nunez
- It's a long time since I used Facebook on a regular basis, but Instagram is a weak spot where I have had to set the phone to give me just 10 minutes per day, then shut it off. Now I can go days without opening the app, and I usually manage to exit before the time is up.
I can highly recommend the book "Carless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams if you want to know just how bad it really is/was. Just remember that this is just one side of the story. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (no longer at Meta) probably have a different story.
by torh