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Facebook Crowned 'Worst Company of 2021' by New Survey
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Implies that 70% of those surveyed thought that FB was irredeemable.
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At the point, it needs to be shut down. It’s a waste of a company on this planet.
The majority don’t know, don’t have much choice if they want to keep up with many people in their lives... The problem is that these “free” services are insidious and become depended on well before their reputation becomes openly bad.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.
True. Without proper guardrails, the tech industry and advertising industry just conducts a perverse secret warfare against end-users for profit. We need to thoroughly end the laissez-faire form of capitalism. It’s destroying everything.
It is not only Facebook and social media dumping fuel on the fire. It is the MSM (Mainstream Media) as well.
The MSM have figured out they can not survive without clickbait articles - so they A/B test the most terrible headlines to get to the "best" clickthrough - leaving us with articles that do not match the headline - and content often fabricated - or dancing on a thin line of "interpreting" the news.
Apart from that many journalists now think they are "Opinion piece writers" where as that used to be reserved for "Opinion articles" - now most articles are VERY coloured with opinion and a lack of real and balanced news analysis. Yes there have always been "slanted media" but it used to be very different. In the "olden days" you had to "earn" your wings before you was even allowed to put opinions in your articles.
In the olden days when I got my writing start - our newsroom rule for new breaking stories was "It has to be INDEPENDENTLY verified by 3 different sources" before we could write about it. Now it is enough if a Twitter/FB account with 3 followers post "a story" for MSM to write the nastiest of stories.
So the end result is now - nobody trust any news - but the same people readily cite and quote from it if it furthers their own opinion.
The MSM have figured out they can not survive without clickbait articles - so they A/B test the most terrible headlines to get to the "best" clickthrough - leaving us with articles that do not match the headline - and content often fabricated - or dancing on a thin line of "interpreting" the news.
Apart from that many journalists now think they are "Opinion piece writers" where as that used to be reserved for "Opinion articles" - now most articles are VERY coloured with opinion and a lack of real and balanced news analysis. Yes there have always been "slanted media" but it used to be very different. In the "olden days" you had to "earn" your wings before you was even allowed to put opinions in your articles.
In the olden days when I got my writing start - our newsroom rule for new breaking stories was "It has to be INDEPENDENTLY verified by 3 different sources" before we could write about it. Now it is enough if a Twitter/FB account with 3 followers post "a story" for MSM to write the nastiest of stories.
So the end result is now - nobody trust any news - but the same people readily cite and quote from it if it furthers their own opinion.
I’ve been off it for over two years. No regrets. I feel bad that a few nice strangers and acquaintances will never hear from me again, but it’s a necessary price to pay to get out of active Facebook usage.
I hear you and partially agree. “News” for profit is a disaster. However, I don’t know that your characterization of exactly how low their standards are is entirely accurate. Which ones are you specifically calling out?
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.
I closed my FB account permanently this year after about a decade. As my LinkedIn feed started to look more and more like "Facebook for Business," I decided to close that too. I miss neither. I keep tabs on the lives of fewer people now, but if we can't even find one non-FB communication method in common, it probably wasn't that critical of a relationship anyway. I have noticed I have to work much harder to just "kill time" lately.
It took me a bit longer to dump Instagram once Facebook bought them, but I'm Meta-free as of this date (I never used WhatsApp). You were wise to have never been sucked into the black hole...
It’s not about a lack of intelligence. It’s about the lack of knowledge and power. Individuals cannot be expected to use self-regulation to combat intentionally-disseminated and financially-supported disinformation.
Which country? Which Nobel prizes? What lies? Your vague complaint is vague.
You’re really that easy? That’s why corporations rebrand. They know a simple name change is all it takes to win some of the populous back into a “benefit of the doubt” stage of PR.
It’s not just children. Most people using it came to it after they were already adults.
I mean, Facebook sucks, but it’s funny that people act like it’s so much more evil than any other giant corporation. None of these companies “care” about you.
