Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo
by grzm on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:05PM
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The stuff being reported around Facebook is certainly cause for serious concern. "Cult"[0] has a pretty contentious meaning which is problematic when applied to Facebook without further analysis—it can certainly be separated from issues of loyalty and morality. "Cargo cult"[1] really doesn't apply at all, at least in the context of what you're describing here.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Metaphorical_uses_o...
Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo
by komali2 on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:30PM
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Thanks, you're right. I've been using the word wrong for a while.
Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo
by mistermann on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:16PM
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And how do they "connect" people? Maybe I use Facebook wrong, but I so nothing much more than vanilla posts I have no interest in from the same people day after day. There is literally nothing I know of in the platform that would cause me to spontaneously meet someone new, unlike forums, meetup.com, etc.
Says the company who's very moral compass is coming into question.
Nazi soldiers following orders to line up minorities in slums and shoot them, or herd them into cattle cars - loyal, yes? Moral? No.
"Loyalty," in that post, to what? To Mark and the investors' bottom line, and tangentially with it the bottom line of you and your fellow employees? Loyalty to this idea of "connecting the world?" Is that really the value of Facebook?
It sounds like a cargo cult.