Facebook and instagram shutting down might be the greatest thing to happen to society in the last 20 years
that was obama
Won’t happen, but it would be really nice
I would laugh very hard at his misfortune.
And the note they would end on in the history books, too.
Misfortune?
I’d rather say very well fucking deserved consequences.
When I think these ghouls cannot be more soulless and harmful, they pull things like this out of the arse that is their entire body
Meta has literally been responsible for a huge swath of misinformation. The sooner that company dies, the better.
Those bastards!
Get owned fuckerberg
Zuck Sux
I’m not optimistic. Sure there have been (and will be more) settlements, but substantive policy change at the federal level is desperately needed.
If you know someone who teaches young people, go talk to them about how kids are in the classroom now. The teachers I know tell stories of kids who can’t focus for more than 60 seconds, or answer a question when the answer is literally written on the board in front of them. They can’t function without AI, and even worse, challenge teachers to explain to them why they need to learn something when AI models can do it for them. And administrators pressure teachers to just move these kids along despite their deficiencies. This is all on top of the well-documented mental health problems experienced (and likely caused by) social media use.
This is, in my view, already a crisis and I have the sinking feeling it won’t be addressed in any meaningful way until the widespread social consequences are undeniable.
Here’s hoping…
Anyone remember why they became Meta in the first place? I don’t exactly but there was huge news at the time that they were burying. I think it was a whistle blower that was exposing this exact story or something like it.
Just negative publicity in general. Facebook had become a shithole for boomers and Zuck had some controversies to bury.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59083601
“The move follows a series of negative stories about Facebook, based on documents leaked by an ex-employee.”
“Frances Haugen has accused the company of putting “profits over safety”.”
Context: Facebook didn’t have good security measures for user data back then, and not many people cared. Then Cambridge Analytica happened. Facebook was fined a pittance, and went back to business as usual.
Over the years, people started pointing fingers (they were slow to do so, since in a way, this was every Facebook user’s fault). But eventually, Facebook became one of the most hated companies, alongside big oil and war profiteers.
Keep in mind, Facebook is one of the first companies ever to blatantly take and sell your data for profit. Their success story and eventual incorporation led to many others copying their business model, which led to the enshitification of the internet as you see today. Hence why Zuck’s infamous conversation with a colleage became so well known.
On that note, rebranding works pretty well against the public. Nobody outside the legal system has time for corporate renaming shenanigans. The average joe is not going out of their way to keep track of names, so they will just give up and move on with their lives. People forget.
The hated company stops being hated, profit train keeps a-chuggin’.
