Okay I'll feed the troll. There are only a few places where if you implemented, for example, an effort to reduce "body dysmorphic disorder", it could instantly improve the lives of 3 billion users worldwide. Meta is one of those places.
I'm not trying to troll.
I just genuinely don't understand why someone would consider working there as a positive thing.
So I would like to know!
But I have no way to figure it out as I know zero people who work there, and talking to a human who works at these companies is impossible because their websites are geared towards not allowing you to talk to them.
So now that I just saw someone in the wild to ask, I figured I should use the opportunity to figure something out which I absolutely do not understand.
> There are only a few places where if you implemented, for example, an effort to reduce "body dysmorphic disorder", it could instantly improve the lives of 3 billion users worldwide. Meta is one of those places.
It surely is a zero-sum to fix the problem which your company has created in the first place???
What about people working on WhatsApp, or infra, or people working at FAIR or people building React, etc? The list goes on.
Meta creates a shit ton of positive impact which is not at all related to "millions of teenagers with body dysmorphic disorder thanks to Instagram".
1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
Oddly enough, this didn't get reported on very much by the media.
There are other js frameworks.
"Meta" does not do any good that comes close to outweighing all the bad they do.
Do you talk to family members in Algeria through FB or WhatsApp? WhatsApp would have been just fine if Zuckerberg didn't buy it before US regulators rolled out of bed.
I think it's hard to argue that anyone's life is improved by a company that shows such a lack of respect for its users. We could have social networks that respect us, but Zuckerberg systematically purchased them or squashed them in the cradle.