Yesterday , Gizmodo and other outletssignal - boostedrecent statements from former Facebook administrator Chamath Palihapitiya saying that social media site are “ ripping apart the social fabric of how society works . ” Many of his incriminating assessment echoed depth psychology made a few days earlier by former Facebook president Sean Parker . Today , Facebook reply directly to what Palihapitiya state .
In a financial statement with Gizmodo and other outlets , a Facebook voice say :
Chamath has not been at Facebook for over 6 years . When Chamath was at Facebook we were focused on building new social mass medium experience and growing Facebook around the world . Facebook was a very dissimilar company back then , and as we have mature , we have realise how our obligation have grown too . We take our function very badly and we are work severely to improve . We ’ve done a lot of study and research with external experts and academics to realize the effects of our service on well - being , and we ’re using it to inform our product development . We are also making important investment more in people , technology and processes , and – as Mark Zuckerberg said on the last earnings call – we are willing to boil down our profitability to make certain the right investments are made .
or else of rebuffing Palihapitiya ’s program line , Facebook seems to be saying the former exec ’s damnatory perceptivity is no longer relevant because “ Facebook was a very different ship’s company back then . ” Whereas now its “ responsibilities have grown . ”
That would be decent , because Palihapitiya made it vocalise pretty bad . “ I finger awful guiltiness . I suppose we all knew in the back of our minds — even though we feigned this whole line of , like , there likely are n’t any bad unintended result , ” Palihapitiya said at theforum at the Stanford Graduate School of Businesslast month . “ I think in the back , deep , deep recess of , we kind of know something bad could happen . ”
Now , those “ forgetful - full term , Dopastat - drive feedback loop ” that Facebook created in its users ’ minds “ are destroying how society works , ” accord to Palihapitiya . And that has led to a lamentable sate of affairs : “ No polite discourse , no cooperation ; misinformation , mistruth . And it ’s not an American problem — this is not about Russians advertizing . This is a global problem , ” he said .
About four twenty-four hours earlier at an Axios meeting place , former Facebook Chief Executive Sean Parkerdiscussed Facebook objective during the other day . “ The persuasion cognitive operation that cash in one’s chips into building these covering , Facebook being the first of them , was all about : ‘ How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible ? ’ ”
He added that Facebook achieved this goal by building “ a social - establishment feedback loop topology ” that sacrifice users “ a little Intropin hit every once in a while , because someone like or point out on a photo or a post or whatever . ”
But Palihapitiya was even more belligerent in his warning about Facebook use , which is part of the reason that his response made more of a splash and possibly why Facebook feel it should answer . Palihapitiya said he avoids social media because he “ innately did n’t want to get programmed . ” And his kids are “ not allowed to use this shit . ”
Then he turned to the bookman audience—“you do n’t realise it but you are being programmed ” — before suggesting that higher - educated people are the most susceptible . “ And do n’t cerebrate , ‘ Oh yeah , not me , I ’m fucking genius , I ’m at Stanford , ’ ” he say . “ You ’re probably the most likely to fucking light for it . ‘ Cause you are fucking hitch - boxing your whole goddamn life . ”
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