What Facebook Has Done To Us

[Ves]

A good (and fairly long) video a friend sent me:

It talks about the evolution of Facebook's destructiveness to our society over time (in particular, the troll farms and Russian disinformation). And not just our society! At some point, Zuckerberg rolled out Facebook to Myanmar and other third world countries. It ended up severely amplifying racial tensions which lead to an ethnic cleansing.

Pretty concerning; I don't see these issues going away anytime soon. Or improving at all -- Elon Musk bought twitter and basically just turned it into an unregulated Russian bot farm where misinformation is allowed to run rampant, often even further spread by Elon himself.

[PurpleTree]

Glad i deleted my fb account like 7 yrs ago or more.

[Frylock]

I'm glad I never used Facebook. Being a millennial, I remember the early days of the Internet when it was mostly just us geeks and nerds on forums. The idea of normies populating the Internet never felt right to me...

Edited November 8 by Frylock

[hoodrow trillson]

1 hour ago, PurpleTree said:

Glad i deleted my fb account like 7 yrs ago or more.

Same.  Deleted it like 10 years ago.  It feels good to catch up with people irl and have actual things to chat about that I haven’t seen online lol