This is a really fine article over on the New York Times.
What has Facebook, and other technologies, done to us? What has the impact been on humanity? How did we get here? What can be done?
Here is a snippet from the piece:
Let me first state that I actually like Mark Zuckerberg and have since the day I met him more than a dozen years ago.
But let me also say that he and Facebook, the huge social network that he started in college, have been working humanity’s last nerve for far too long now.
Every week, it’s something, and that something is never good.
This week, it was the revelation that the Russians — or, more precisely, a group of geek thugs who are acting the exact same way that a group of Russians acted when they messed with the 2016 United States elections on Facebook — are still skulking around the platform and making trouble for the midterms.
Here is the full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html
I use Facebook for one thing really. I have a couple small groups I'm in where we discuss particular topics. Movies mostly. I enjoy the folks there. We are quite collegial and regularly have respectful disagreements. We stay on topic and share our thoughts and experiences.
Beyond that the platform doesn't do hardly anything for me any more.
Twitter is a great place for instant news, though dangerous as the possibility of inaccurate news is very real.
Troubling times as we've seen our hopes and dreams for technology dashed by bad actors. As if we've never seen this before in history (oh, yes, we have says Mr. Nobel).
Happy Disturbing Reading,
J.W. Gant
But let me also say that he and Facebook, the huge social network that he started in college, have been working humanity’s last nerve for far too long now.
Every week, it’s something, and that something is never good.
This week, it was the revelation that the Russians — or, more precisely, a group of geek thugs who are acting the exact same way that a group of Russians acted when they messed with the 2016 United States elections on Facebook — are still skulking around the platform and making trouble for the midterms.
Here is the full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html
I use Facebook for one thing really. I have a couple small groups I'm in where we discuss particular topics. Movies mostly. I enjoy the folks there. We are quite collegial and regularly have respectful disagreements. We stay on topic and share our thoughts and experiences.
Beyond that the platform doesn't do hardly anything for me any more.
Twitter is a great place for instant news, though dangerous as the possibility of inaccurate news is very real.
Troubling times as we've seen our hopes and dreams for technology dashed by bad actors. As if we've never seen this before in history (oh, yes, we have says Mr. Nobel).
Happy Disturbing Reading,
J.W. Gant
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