This comment is the sort of toxicity that's become commonplace on other social platforms (including Facebook) and that I come to HN to avoid.
I haven't figured out the reason for the out-of-whack disparity yet. Is it because Zuckerberg lacks charisma, because he has Aspergers and people hate the awkwardness, or because FB is the tallest poppy, or because journalists have found a credentialed home on Twitter (blue check mark)?
This.
Twitter made a deliberate decision to recruit opinion-formers early on.
The face of Faceache is Zuck, with his blank expression and absurd haircut (surely after 20 years, he could find a decent stylist). The face of Twaddle (in the UK) seems to be Stephen Fry - a comic that I used to admire. Now, not so much.
I think Twaddle did a better PR job than Faceache from the beginning. I think they're still doing a better job.
/me never used either service
toxicity tends to come in symbiotic pairs
Shunning is likewise immoral.
So, I have to ask. If shunning is off the table, what's the social punishment for people who do shun?
There are lots of great people doing great things at FB, and if we apply this standard to FB we should also be applying it elsewhere. I'm not entirely sure many major companies have been completely controversy-free... Work for Apple? well you are complicit in sweatshops. Work for Uber? Complicit in sexism and workers being taken advantage of. Work for Spotify? Complicit in artists not getting paid what they should get. I would be interested in hearing where I am allowed to work if we follow this to it's conclusion.
(NB: I don't work for facebook or any of these companies...)
"Well I GUESS I CANT WORK ANYWHERE THEN"
Really? There is a vast amount of smaller companies that are great employers and where you will enjoy your work just as much.
Besides, different people have different moral perspectives, and I assume most people at Facebook probably think the company has had a net benefit on society (even if you don’t).
Unless software engineers "vote" by going to work elsewhere, this won't change.
Looks for companies with solid ethics, and with founders who have background working at or starting other similar companies.
But not coincidentally, the pay at these companies will be at least multiple times less than at Big Tech.