Subj : Re: ..the End of Targeted
To   : esc
From : Lmorchard
Date : Thu Feb 23 2023 19:05:04

  Re: Re: ..the End of Targeted
  By: esc to MRO on Thu Feb 23 2023 12:25 am

 > Yes, they did. Who do you think works there? The people Facebook hires are
 > those smart college kids that want to "make the world a better place". Their
 > entire pitch and mission with recruiting is connecting people. There aren't
 > these evil boogeymen people writing lines of code like you seem to think.

FWIW, I know folks who work at Facebook. That is the pitch, yes, and why most of them joined up. But most of them aren't in charge. A lot of them are *trying* to do good work there. But, the money comes from connecting people so that they stick around to generate classifying data & provide attention worth renting out to advertisers.

Not "evil boogeymen people" so much as folks paid very well to implement the company's objectives while trying to good where they can. A lot of folks I know who've stayed there think that it's a good trade to provide a communication service for "free" rather than having it only be available to folks who can afford to pay. I see their point, but don't personally think the surveilance ends up being a good trade.

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