Facebook is a factory farm for human beings. It is not your friend, it is not fundamentally good, it is an extractive and exploitative machine. Let’s stop expecting it to be what it is not and regulate it to limit its abuses. PS. Google, etc., have the exact same business model.
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@rushkoff’s perspective in his monologue at the beginning of http://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-82-brian-keating-honey-i-shrunk-the-cosmos/ … is very good: -
“The problems created by a website built by a college kid which subsequently grew out of his control because of an internet he didn’t understand will be policed by algorithms whose ramifications he’ll understand even less…
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…”And all of this techno-solutionism seems to satisfy the senators who don’t even understand the technology that’s causing all the trouble.”—
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Perhaps the most profound challenge is people’s perceptions of being heavily invested in Facebook, i.e. the cumulative connections (friends, followers), recognitions (likes, shares, favs), pages, group membership, user-proficiency, etc. Abandoning Facebook causes a sense of loss.
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People fundamentally dislike change and they really hate the sense of loss. Rather than developing strategies to promote mass migration, I think we may need to think about ‘painless migration’. Ultimately, however, prohibitive regulation may be the only solution, as with smoking.
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but of course, that doesn't go against your points, quite the opposite in fact
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with the historical precedent of cigarettes and petrol, I've little hope. Even with cancer, teeth decay, oil Slick and other very physical, tangible, immediate consequences, smoke didn't stop but for an alternative (e-cigarette) to appear, and oil companies are still omnipotent
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