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Facebook Crowned 'Worst Company of 2021' by New Survey
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Yes and people still use Twitter- a toxic environment often used to destroy lives and form digital mobs to attack others. But it remains super popular.Yet nearly 3bn people use it every month. Let that sink in for a minute, that is approximately 2,800,000,000 people, 35% of the worlds population - every month.
For all Apple's marketing about privacy, forum frothings about people and their data being the product, even the acceptance that Facebook/Meta really is a cancer on society, it is clear that the majority of internet users do not care.
Social media created the division.
People don't really think for themselves. They selectively amplify messages and concepts that they are fed through socials.
FB has been going overboard suspending accounts with undo censorship. I got a warning when I posted a funny meme about buying the moon. It was just for fun. That's all I use FB for. Fun. I love watching funny cat videos. They make my day. If Mark-y Malarky gets a rise out of selling my "personal" info, it's just sad for him. I believe in karma.
Users should have near absolute free speech on these platforms. But they should be intelligent enough to evaluate fringe ideas and reject the wacky ones.
I don't think the issue is individuals with divisive ideas. But rather monetary influence behind trying to divide individuals into distinct groups.
I'm all for Grandma posting about misinformation, and then being corrected (That is discussion). I'm not for social media being a population control lab.
your comment criticizing fb policies would have more weight if you posted the meme here for us to put into context. you say it was just a funny meme. we could all use a good laugh. Some funny cat videos are on YouTube btw, dont need facebook for that
I doubt many people would disagree with the statement that Zuckerberg is smart.
Doesn't make him any the less dangerous though.
If anything, it makes him more so.
In my country facebook censors even nobel prizes or high level doctors who talk, with papers in their hands, about the lie they are told about medical facts. Where is the freedom of speech? nowadays any placid talk about something "uncomfortable" is labeled with "hate speech" or "misinformation". They found the way to hush anyone with just a stupid formula. Anything that the regime doesn't like is labeled and censored.
You know a company is bad if they are worse than Comcast.
Hey, Mark-Malarky! Nice to hear from you!your comment criticizing fb policies would have more weight if you posted the meme here for us to put into context. you say it was just a funny meme. we could all use a good laugh. Some funny cat videos are on YouTube btw, dont need facebook for that
There is no such thing as free speech without some form of regulation and guidance to reflect society will. It was inevitable that as social media platforms gain size they would be subjected to such. Its a difficult problem to solve.
This survey of 1000 people is likely flawed, hard to imagine the whole work demographics were accounted for.
Well deserved. Don't go near the new "Metaverse." It's going to be even more criminal.
Just to clarify why I disagreed with your post: I do not disagree that GB is basically evil. However "freedom of speech" is invariably a government concept.
In the US for example, the first amendment does not apply to Facebook.
Now, care to explain (other than a tit for tat) why you disagreed ed with my post?
Ironic that one of the first online companies to deploy the like button gets so few likes itself.
I’ve been saying for over 10 years that Facebook was bad. I was even laughed at when I said it by people who now go around saying Facebook is bad. Funny how this is a survey from Yahoo Finance as they’re just as bad.
I have NEVER had a Facebook account and I have actively campaigned among my friends and colleagues against them opening Facebook and Facebook-affiliated accounts. I have been doing this ever since that Zuckerberg-owned threat to democracy was know as “The Facebook”.