Friday, December 22, 2017
Former Facebook Exec: 'You Don’t Realize It But You Are Being Programmed'
On the Gizmodo.com website, Jennings Brown recently reported on this:
"...When the host asked Palihapitiya if he was doing any soul searching in regards to his role in building Facebook, he responded: 'I feel tremendous guilt. I think we all knew in the back of our minds—even though we feigned this whole line of, like, there probably aren’t any bad unintended consequences. I think in the back, deep, deep recesses of, we kind of knew something bad could happen. But I think the way we defined it was not like this.' He went on to explain what 'this' is:
So we are in a really bad state of affairs right now, in my opinion. It is eroding the core foundation of how people behave by and between each other. And I don’t have a good solution. My solution is I just don’t use these tools anymore. I haven’t for years.
Speaking more broadly on the subject of social media, Palihapitiya said he doesn’t use social media because he 'innately didn’t want to get programmed.' As for his kids: 'They’re not allowed to use this shit.'"
