an instant-message exchange in which the 19-year-old founder crows over the data Harvard students shared with him.
ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? howād you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i donāt know why
ZUCK: they ātrust meā
ZUCK: dumb fucks
Charming!!!
From an article with reference to a 2020 book Lurking , author Joanne McNeil
His ambition has not diminished with success; Facebook is currently gathering data on users who donāt even have Facebook profiles, in an effort to index every single person on the planet.
According to McNeil, Zuckerberg never abandoned the view of his own users as ādumb fucks.ā āAt its worst,ā she writes, āFacebook is fully parasitic of everything human, while also, with its preset filters and artificial groupings, bulldozing the agency of users as individuals.ā With humor, she adds that she tries to maintain some critical distance when writing about tech platformsābut Facebookās banal terribleness outmatches her capacity for objectivity. āI hate it. The company is one of the biggest mistakes in modern history, a digital cesspool that, while calamitous when it fails, is at its most dangerous when it works as intended. Facebook is an ant farm of humanity.ā
I agree with her wholeheartedly.
Good link Fleur. The ālikeā button on Facebook is a two way street. It promotes the thing youāve liked but it also adds to your profile that youāve liked it.
FB isnāt about advertising, I wouldnāt mind that. Itās about user manipulation.
Havenāt read this yet but it seemed so pertinent to our discussion I thought Iād link itā¦
Good link Geof with very good points, all of them worrying. The most significant for me is ā¦ * "secretly conduct experiments on its customers, in an attempt to change their moods or behaviours ā something Facebook has done in the past.ā
This is Big Brother on steroids.
āI already have 4 people following meāā¦ You forgot the taxman
Mine tooā¦itās how I got to hear of them 
True, and that must be driving Zuckerberg wild. Heās done a lot of bad things when not under pressure. One wonders what heāll do next.
Heard maniacally cackling from his evil Facebook lair 
I have friends in Gazaā¦and friends of Palestine and friends from Australia and USA who have gotten into Gaza and friends who are journalists in Gazaā¦
A few years back I was posting the most dreadful injuries to children as they appeared live on my feedā¦I was never censoredā¦since I reactivated I noticed a restriction on a years old post documenting these injuriesā¦not because it wasnāt factual but because it might be sensitive to some viewersā¦
FB gives people the info they want, but it was chilling to watch a report of a covid person from the hospital bed with breathing mask on CNN this afternoon, who was misguided by FB and now regrets very much to have followed the information about the vaccination. It was 10 minutes long and eye opening! Hopefully more people get vaccinated!!!
What are your thoughts on this writerā¦???
Only just recently come across thisā¦
Is anyone following Edward Snowden on Twitterā¦??? I donāt have a Twitter account but thereās a few I catch up with every day nowā¦
To be honest Helen I donāt really read any bloggers unless I know them personally (like Laurence Demarco, who I do read every Friday if I can). Generally, I read lots of books - and I tend to stick pretty much to āclassicsā - that have been recognised over many years by many people as containing important insights or other qualities.
Iāll put him on my follow list x
Laurence is Scottish (of Italian extraction) and writes a lot about Scottish politics - but also about the experience of ageing, on which I think he has interesting things to say.
An act of tremendous bravery by my friend Mi Mi in Yangon.
All of the comments express worries for her health and safety.
Danger on Facebook - but rather more immediate than most people thinkā¦
Now hereās a delicious irony: the Chinese app TikTok is replacing Facebook in part because of its much more sophisticated content moderation. The reason for this? Precisely that it was developed in Chinaās āhighly controlled digital spaceāā¦