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"I Was Wrong About Facebook"

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MsAmerica · 26/02/2023 22:44

I'm always amazed that there doesn't seem to be a forum for tech/internet, so I thought I'd post this here, since much of FB has to do with relationships.

I Was Wrong About Facebook
By Farhad Manjoo

I wasn’t just wrong about Facebook; I had the matter exactly backward. Had we all decided to leave Facebook then or at any time since, the internet and perhaps the world might now be a better place...

We’re still in the midst of the digital takeover of real life, and we’ll likely only know how all this plays out many years from now. And it might not matter now, anyway: Social networks are here to stay. But what bothers me is the matchless power that people like Zuckerberg have acquired through their inventions. It does not seem in any way good for society — for the economy, for politics, for a basic sense of equality — that a handful of hundred-billion-dollar or even trillion-dollar companies should control such large swathes of the internet.

www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/opinion/farhad-manjoo-facebook.html

english.aawsat.com/home/article/3772576/farhad-manjoo/i-was-wrong-about-facebook

silk-news.com/2022/07/21/opinion/opinion-farhad-manjoo-i-was-wrong-about-facebook/

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