I think in a few years, as FB’s popularity craters and awareness of their terrible practices becomes more widespread, that notion will seem even more comical than it does today.
True but then Trump went and lost and got kicked off the network. My point is its more a chaos factory than a controllable weapon.
It no one can tell if their own head is going to be blown off, when they wield the weapon, then its not a very good one.
That said, there are lot of people who have become Like and Follower chasing robots thanks to FBs content mechanics and that fuel the chaos. These people think they are great shapers of reality, but the outcomes speak for themselves.
There are no lasting results or outcomes that will go into the political history book from all the activity that happens on FB. Its just wasting everyones time and energy. And for that reason it will suddenly one day collapse and everyone will stand around shocked and suprised just as they did with Hilary.
Chaos is easy to generate and impossible to control. And it will be FBs downfall.
I would agree. If the worst we have to worry about from outside influences is that they're sharing posts on FB, I really think their power is over stated.
Fb makes all if its money by separating people into neat little echo chambers and making them feel warm and cozy and in possession of the Truth. Basically driving a number of wedges into the society. A _little_ blame would be in order, I'd think.
Not really. You would think in a forum full of techbros, FB being a private entity would be the end of the discussion. But because it's white supremacist viewpoints that many of the forum users are sympathetic with, it gets moved into a conveniently gray area.
To me, that does seem to be the case based on headlines I see here and on reddit. This may just be the media fanning flames to create a story but maybe the anti-Facebook sentiment has reached a tipping point.
Totally agree. However, I wanted to put my thoughts on this down... Surely we need more info and time to see what the actual truth is - but I just do not believe that FB is in any way some altruistic innocent/neutral entity.
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