I have been banging on about this now for at least a couple of years. Much as been written about what is ailing Meta at the moment; yet, strip all that away lies, at its root, a lack of integrity, common decency and humility, and a large dose of cynicism that defines the character of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. They say a company’s culture starts with the man, or woman, at the top, and so it has come to pass.
From the very beginning, with the original premise of FB being intended to rate women on their sexual desirability, the seeds of its eventual demise were planted. They are now reaping the bitter harvest that he, and he alone, sowed.
Notice how there aren’t any figures or numbers in this “article?”
Yeah that’s because it’s fantasyland time for the “author”
I’d love it for Meta to die, but what evidence is there? They have more money and users than most small nations still
I share the author’s view that Facebook will go the way of Yahoo, CompuServe and a few others. We shall have to wait and see if the author and I are right.
Yahoo still exists.
Completely agree - but look at their books and numbers. Sure they’ve had missteps but what evidence is this article leaning on to make those claims?
I can’t draw a line from reality to this article, at least not in the short- to medium-terms.
Really? I would have thought that, had its users also not bought into the self aggrandization, fomo, yolo and other basal human flaws, the platform would have died a stillborn. Yet here we are, chasing the ethereal currency of likes and upvotes for the sake of one upping our peers. If anything, meta exposed the hypocrisy that pervades society in general, and shows us how far we have fallen as a species.
I don’t disagree with that analysis! What saddens me, though, is just how his cynicism has exploited those very flaws.
Us humans aren’t perfect; indeed we are broken, all of us. What Zuckerberg did was to exploit our shortcomings for profit and that, I’m afraid, is simply unforgiveable.
it’s hard to imagine that this death spiral will cause any human on Earth quite as much suffering as Zuckerberg
In what universe would this ever be true? The guy is one of the few richest people in world history. I think he’ll be fine. I want everything about Meta to die in a fire, but even if that happens tomorrow he ain’t starving one bit.
