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Old 12 Sep 2021, 11:24 AM   #1
webecedarian
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Facebook’s Broken Vows

I'm assuming that at least some of you are on Facebook, so might find this article to be of interest.

Facebook’s Broken Vows
How the company’s pledge to bring the world together wound up pulling us apart.

By Jill Lepore

Collecting data and selling ads does not build community, and it turns out that bringing people closer together, at least in the way Facebook does it, makes it easier for them to hurt one another. Facebook wouldn’t be so successful if people didn’t love using it, sharing family photographs, joining groups, reading curated news, and even running small businesses. But studies have consistently shown that the more time people spend on Facebook the worse their mental health becomes; Facebooking is also correlated with increased sedentariness, a diminishment of meaningful face-to-face relationships, and a decline in real-world social activities. Efforts to call Zuckerberg and Sandberg to account and get the company to stop doing harm have nearly all ended in failure.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ks-broken-vows

https://globalupfront.com/2021/07/27...s-broken-vows/
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