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Scientists warned Zuck the FB theory of interaction would make people miserable

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27 pointsCarolineW8 comments

Why did Mark Zuckerberg take a moral stance about how people present themselves online? And why did he feel the need to enforce that stance? I thought Silicon Valley's mantra was, "We just build tools for people to express themselves how they want," but it seems more and more that they use the tools to enforce behavioral norms.

Because it makes it easier for Facebook to interact with law enforcement??????

Only Zuck knows the real answer. But my guess is he's buying into his own hype. Look at the way he travels the world and poses with the needy for photos. I suspect he thinks of himself as a visionary, with visionary ideas to match. His stance on authenticity is a perfect way to spin his platform's antisocial design into something noble.

The worst thing about Facebook is that it makes it difficult to discover new people, or at least users either don't trust the site, or the friend relationship is so binary and exclusive that it doesn't make people be more open.

You can't even organize public meetups based on interest and let people do things. It only starts with the friend relationship, but there is nothing that encourages people interacting with each other online before becoming friends.

I think zuck is advocating for people to be more honest, but the site is clearly not designed for discovery. Tinder works great for that.

In practice people use different apps for different purposes, and isn't that a good thing? Why do it all in Facebook?

Because Facebook invested billions of dollars in making the most amount of people use Facebook, even people who previously didn't use computers at all. Not everyone is digitally literate.

In practice people buy from different countries for monetary reasons. Why buy all your food from you own country? (spoiler: bc u alredy liv in it and tis hard 2 liv in many countries @ once bc it takes work)

Sidenote, is anyone else amused that boingboing became relevant again, if only briefly?

Read the FB Manifesto.

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