Anyone else find Facebook a rather creepy, not very good company?

I'll stick to my tamagotchi, thank you very much.

fr336 wrote: »

Is it bad to say that Zuckerberg scares me a little bit more than Trump?

No, Zuckerberg's whole agenda comes across as very contrived, very polished.

Even the stuff about his child comes across with a real, "Oh, nobody had ever had an experience like this before, my child is so unique, so I'm dedicating this new charity in her name" bolloxogy.
Even though he and his wife spend 20 hours a day working and have a team of people running their household and minding their child for them.

I get the feeling that Facebook as a company is keeping up appearances when it comes to managing the "social" aspect of what they do. Their technology operation is very slick, run incredibly well.
But the business of managing a social network is proving difficult and they're just about keeping the worst of it out of the press.

As the latest stuff about Russian election-manipulating ads, and the leaked moderators' manual has illustrated, they don't have a proper grip on how people use Facebook, and they don't understand the ways in which it's being abused.

For the most part it's a free-for-all for users. To gain any kind of control over it would require an literal army of moderators that it can't afford.

The problem is that Facebook presents itself as a safe environment, a place where people don't need to worry about being hacked, or their children being stalked by paedos, or themselves being stalked by lunatics. When in reality Facebook is exactly the opposite of safe.

Remember when newspaper groups were deemed 'creepy' in the past? Nothing to see here, it's just fear peddling.