Re:Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook?
by zepto on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:57PM
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Hmm,
Honestly that doesn’t really clarify it for me.
If the broader problem is:
“network technologies encourage our tendencies toward runaway group think and villainization due to their effect of disinhibition”
Then Facebook is by far the most significant manifestation of that, followed by YouTube and Twitter who are also criticized a great deal.
What would it look like to address this broader problem without actually focussing on where it is manifest?
I think I might be able to see more easily what you are getting at if you could give an example of something you see as beyond Facebook’s control, but for which they are catching flak?
Honestly that doesn’t really clarify it for me.
If the broader problem is:
“network technologies encourage our tendencies toward runaway group think and villainization due to their effect of disinhibition”
Then Facebook is by far the most significant manifestation of that, followed by YouTube and Twitter who are also criticized a great deal.
What would it look like to address this broader problem without actually focussing on where it is manifest?
I think I might be able to see more easily what you are getting at if you could give an example of something you see as beyond Facebook’s control, but for which they are catching flak?