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I'll preface this by saying that I (David) don't have Facebook, nor Twitter, nor Snapchat nor ...
... TD is the closest I have to Social Media
Some of Facebook's former friends are starting to express some serious doubts about the
social network they helped create.
Key points:
- Former Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya gave a talk at Stanford criticising the way the app works
- "The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops [using Facebook creates] ... are destroying how society works," he said
- Facebook says it was a "very different company" when Mr Palihapitiya worked there
The social media company (i.e. Facebook) has issued a statement hitting back at comments by former Facebook vice-president
Chamath Palihapitiya, who told an audience at Stanford last month the company was "ripping apart the social fabric of how society works".
"We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts, likes,
thumbs up — and we conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth," he said.
"And instead what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short-term and that leaves you even more — admit it — vacant and empty
before you did it, because then it forces you into this vicious cycle where you're like, 'What's the next thing I need to do now because I need it back?'
'How do we consume as much of your time as possible?'
But Mr Palihapitiya is not alone in his concern — the company's first president, Sean Parker, told a public forum last month that Facebook
exploited a "vulnerability in human psychology" to addict its users.
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