Facebook - The Social Mental Institution
‘Facebook a gift to intelligence agencies. People volunteer all their social information’
- Laura Poitras
Facebook’s co-founder blasts social media: “It literally changes your relationship with society”
Sean Parker, one of the co-founders of Facebook, says he thinks social media is damaging the health of humans' brains.
"It literally changes your relationship with society, with each other . . . It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains," Parker told an audience at an Axios event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, regarding cancer studies.
Another former Facebook executive has spoken out about the harm the social network is doing to civil society around the world.
Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, said he feels “tremendous guilt” about the company he helped make. “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” he told an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business, before recommending people take a “hard break” from social media.
Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook
It’s not the inaccuracy that grates, however, but the hypocrisy. Zuckerberg thanks Berners-Lee for “making the world more open and connected”. So do I. What Zuck conveniently omits to mention, though, is that he is embarked upon a commercial project whose sole aim is to make the world more “connected” but less open. Facebook is what we used to call a “walled garden” and now call a silo: a controlled space in which people are allowed to do things that will amuse them while enabling Facebook to monetise their data trails. One network to rule them all. If you wanted a vision of the opposite of the open web, then Facebook is it.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
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