It would have been funnier if he took a few jabs at facebook. Good satire sometimes mixes actual insults with the satire. I don't know anything about the author, but this reads like something written by a third rate facebook recruiter.
You don't have to know anyone to read that comment as satire. I suppose Facebook would also have banned Johnathan Swift for his "Modest Proposal". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Yeah, this almost seems like satire from a dystopian scifi movie. The actual presented ideas were fine but the tone and jokes landed far from where FB marketers presumably intended.
I'm aware that the author wants us to leverage Facebook to dismantle it, and that might be a fine suggestion. But leaving that as the only advice on what the author considers to be an existential threat to the Internet is almost satire. (And especially in the way they wrote it, which basically boils down to "idle passive aggressively on Facebook".) I genuinely wondered for a moment if the author was controlled opposition.
It's pretty funny. I took it as just an ironic take/satire on the demeaning tone of job adverts. I hope it doesn't backfire on him (judging by some peoples reactions in here, it might. Reading it I had thought 'I wish I'd thought of this.' now I'm kinda glad that I didn't)
Satire at its finest, I was 2/3 of the way through the article and still trying to tell whether it was a spoof, or the public unveiling of a terrible, TERRIBLE startup.
Obvious satire; and not particularly good or funny satire either. It tries too hard to be offensive and transgressive without really pulling it off. Like a parody of Google / Silicon Valley corporate speak written by someone who is not fluent?
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