Mark Zuckerberg says the world is much more divided than he ever expected

Zuckerberg hasn’t been making the world more open. He’s got people on Facebook to only see viewpoints he already has.

 

Oh, bull-**** Zuckerberg. The goal wasn’t ever about benevolent connections.

 

It must be really shocking to discover that not everyone is a limousine liberal.

 

This guy either doesn't know what he is talking about, or thinks everyone but him is a chump. By choosing to go with algorithmic presentation, Facebook chose to sow divisions and anger in the name of "engagement". If he truly wanted to keep the world connected and informed, he would have Facebook present all viewpoints to everyone, not just whatever drove the most outrage.

 

Dear Zuckerberg,

For god's sake read some sociology, political science and social psychology. Increased contact among opposing groups can lead to even greater hostility. If you want to bring people together to unify them, you have to do more than just force them or allow them to interact and expect everything to be magically OK.

EDIT: Oh, and for god's sake, save yourself the embarrassment and don't run for President. Ever.

 

This is interesting ... Be interesting to see exactly what people feel and think about this.

Note: I am not a Facebook user.

 

What? There’s only one viewpoint on Facebook? Are u kidding?

 

Zuckerberg's naivete would be cute if he weren't the head of a billion-dollar company.

Honestly, the brouhaha around Facebook largely evades me as even though I am a user, I almost exclusively use the site to keep track of various events and their times (be they frat parties, outings with friends or academic events and shows). I occasionally browse my friends' travel photos. That's about it. So when I hear that Facebook is controlling the world for the worse, I guess it really depends on what you put into it. And since I put almost nothing into it, I don't get much in return.

But yes, I tend to have the more cynical view that bringing people with opposing viewpoints together tends to just foster division and hatred more than any kind of understanding (though this depends on how the opposing viewpoints are presented). Most of my Facebook friends are similar to me: young, left-leaning, from a middle class-to-affluent background, it's no wonder we all get along more-or-less swimmingly. In other words, my Facebook experience has kept me in my bubble much more than it has exposed me to anything contrary to my worldview. I use PRSI for that.

 

Conservatives only see conservative posts, liberals only see liberal posts. One viewpoint for everyone.

 

True, very true, that's what my hope was with internet, that it would be a platform for alternative viewpoints. Instead, while that does exist the influence on mainstream society is pretty minimal and the the big players dominate anyway.

 

It's very easy to create an echo chamber for yourself online. It's also apparently easy to have one created for you.

 

Mark ought to stop talking and presenting himself as a blossoming politician. Crap doesn't blossom.

You can thank Reagan for that.

 

Though if you watch the mainstream normal channels generally you get a bit more balance. Besides Zuckerberg is pretending to be better.

 

Ths is the “hot” or “not hot” guy from Harvard that steals your info and abuses it while raking in billions.

Die Facebook. Just die.

 

Coming up with (or stealing some might say) a popular website doesn’t make one a genius on all issues. We really shouldn’t listen to him as much as we are forced to unless it has to do directly with Facebook.

 

What do you want to bet he also has some alternative use thoughts on the data they identify.

 

He needs to live in Compton or Huntington Park for a while.

(I lived in nearby Lakewood during the 1992 riots)

 

Gawd.

EDIT: in my neck of the woods the locals say they are using social media less often... we are rubes but we are not complete idiots any more. We have seen the light and it's 19, 20, 30 laser beams tracking us through every site we visit --including sites we pay to subscribe to!-- if we don't run some form of script controlling software. One gets sick of it all after awhile. The novelty of Facebook has long since worn off and the downsides of trying to have political discourse in that medium are only too apparent.

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Aint that the truth. He is the WORST kind of left-winger there is. Every policy hes either for or against is exactly the opposie of how he actually lives. The classic "do as I say, not as I do" lib.

 

People are effectively willingly handing their information over to what is nothing more than a sophisticated trojan horse virus. It's sole purpose is to take your information, infiltrate it and then propagate it. Look at the first thing it does when you install it on your smartphone, it immediately consumes your contacts and their information unless you specifically go through convoluted settings to disconnect them afterwards. They require a separate app for messaging, which is also consumed. For many devices, standard text messaging is tracked and logged.

 

Chuckle
A rich white boy in those places? Definitely out of place.

 

First you have to figure out a way to suppress the partisan tribalism that's been rampant for the last 8-10yrs. The left wants to shut out every opinion other than their own, the person who leans right of center thinks the left want to destroy this country.