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Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com)
Facebook CEO believes the company's primary purpose is a social one -- the same it has had for year -- but he's ready to update this mission for the first time. From a report: "We used to have a sense that if we could just do those things, then that would make a lot of the things in the world better by themselves," Zuckerberg told CNN Tech. "But now we realize that we need to do more too. It's important to give people a voice, to get a diversity of opinions out there, but on top of that, you also need to do this work of building common ground so that way we can all move forward together." The company even has a new mission statement: "To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together." This marks the first time the company has overhauled its mission, which had previously been "to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." Zuckerberg believes he has just the tool for the job: Facebook Groups, which are now used by a billion people. "A lot of what we can do is to help create a more civil and productive debate on some of the bigger issues as well," Zuckerberg told CNN Tech.
the easier it is to spy on you and shove ads in your faces.
Wasn't that always FB's mission, to bring people closer together? That what social media is about, isn't it?
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Facebook's goal is to "get everyone together" in a database where our faces can be scanned by various government departments both state and federal, done legally or illegally (including police departments in New York City and Vermont), to track use whenever we pass by a digital camera, whether or not they are charged with a crime, just because...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
No thanks, Zuck. We don't want to be "together" in tribes lorded over by Facebook Review Teams we can't hold accountable when 250,000 John Smiths from Krasnoyarsk won't stop posting about MAGA, all the while we dumbly give to your free analytics firehose.
Well, that is not really the mission. That does not bring in any money. The real mission is making an ever better map over peoples relationships.
He must have been talking to Naomi Klein. Totalitarian communism for all.
How is it important to Facebook to have a diversity of opinions when you Facebook jail anyone with opinions you don't like?
Someone thought 1984 was a plan.
I've never seen anything better at dividing people than Facebook. It encourages a mob mentality, whipping people up with the crisis of the day, the two minutes hate.
Either sign on to the memes or get run over.
Facebook has one mission and it's the same mission it's always had since Zuckerberg came up with the thing in the first place: make as much money as possible off of your users. This is done by collecting data on them and selling that to advertisers, and (likely) providing that information to government agencies, for which I'll bet they also receive a pretty penny. All this 'bringing the world closer together' more or less translates to 'Let's finish gathering up all the two-legged human sheep of the world and put them in one corral, so it's that much easier to collect data from them that we can sell'. Zuckerberg can and should bugger the hell off.
He sure knows a whole lot about friendship and community. Just ask the who he stole Facebook from or the Hawaiians.
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If FB has shown anything to date, its that bringing people together makes them more aware of all the ways that they hate each other. It also appears to increase their need to "fight" against all these hateful people that, without all the social media "togetherness", they would never worry about at all.
Forcing everyone to live in giant, football-field size dormitories would also bring people closer together. Who thinks that is a good idea?
Facebook is doing to society what "open plan" offices have done for the work place.
No thanks.
"FB brings the world closer together by reducing the distance between ads, and making it more convenient for FB's customers to reach more of FB's product."
Mario has diarrhea (42 people liked this). Honestly man... we are already too close. People share everything, people are always on... what the fuck else do you want from us zuckerberg? Would you a blood oath or perhaps my first born child?!?!
FB is a now a socialy mandatory tool. We are all obliged to use it, but we all profundly despise it. Zuckerberg can say whatever he wants, it will be judged as it is : BS ....or worse.
First problem:
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Second problem:
Tinfoil is the great equalizer.
It allows those who really know very little about how the world works (hint: it's complicated) to put up a big front. Any steep ignorance gradient confined to a narrow social context is going to generate a tinfoil IED (improvised exposition device).
We used to blame Alzheimer's disease on leached aluminum. Boy, were we thinking small.
So, I guess they are now actively after everyone.
If you do not allow for separation, people will create it through whatever means available. We need to learn to progess while apart, not together.
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"To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."
--- Facebook
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
David Rockefeller, Memoirs
Wasn't FB one of the actors that got caught in the last election trying to shut down viewpoints they didn't agree with? I read this "bring in all viewpoints" talk as "force the viewpoints I agree with on those filthy conservatives".
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Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Thank you in advance.
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” -- Douglas Adams.
Facebook's primary objective is clickbait and spam thats why facebook is mostly a walled garden that dont let anonymous browsers in to look at content, they want to make everyone a facebook user so they can send your page clickbait, fake friends with more clickbait and spam
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
To help the people who want what you do to express themselves and then shush everyone else.
Only in that way can we build a true democracy! Hurray! Democracy!
"Remember: Everyone has chosen this! Together!" ..
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Facebook is an ad revenue disease, and it's completely counter-intuitive to what you just said. What a crock
You cant even get the internet to agree that the Earth is round.
Truly free communication is the greatest thing ever. It made the human race what it is and it's what could save us in the future.
What you see on Facebook (and the interwebz in general) is NOT free communication. It's a couple lines of text and emojis sent to people you've "friended" because you like them (meaning they think like you). It's an echo chamber of vacuous idle thoughts and social justice outrage.
Real free communication looks like... you sit down in face to face with a priest in a distraction and pressure-free environment and have a heart to heart talk, like confessing your sins. Or you're brainstorming in a workshop with your co-workers on an important project that you're all interested in succeeding.
Facebook was successful (very successful) at making a difficult-to-use website extremely popular, and get third party webmasters to include web bugs so they could correlate profiles with peoples' interests and target ads, thereby legitimately (or as legitimate as the biz can reasonably get) charge a decent amount for ads.
But they never really made much progress on social networking itself, and after all these years, they're still a joke in that regard. I agree that it's probably time to admit they "failed" at social networking (assuming they ever really tried) and try another mission statement. It's not like the company itself is a failure at all; they just weren't able to do what they said they wanted to do. Somehow I think the equity holders have no problem with the resulting ad revenue, though.
Remember the Coke ad from the 1970s?
"I'd like to make the world be nice,
or maybe even nicer".
No. You'd like to get a load of money by selling coloured fizzy water, you lying bunch of bastards.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Please - the mission is to sell ads. Of course over time how they operate to make that happen will change, but that's till the mission.
Sincerely, the Man Who Sold the World
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Truly free communication is the greatest thing ever. It made the human race what it is and it's what could save us in the future.
Citation desperately needed.
And there are none to be found here:
Real free communication looks like... you sit down in face to face with a priest in a distraction and pressure-free environment and have a heart to heart talk, like confessing your sins.
OFFS
Or you're brainstorming in a workshop with your co-workers on an important project that you're all interested in succeeding.
Because work is where everyone feels free to express whatever they want. Yeah, BS.
We already have the internet to do that, thanks.
Zuckerberg will be in for a rude awakening when he learns the hard way that not everybody gets along, and will never get along.
It means agree with my idiotic progressive/leftist musings. Inclusiveness, diversity, unity....almost always mean "agree with progressives" nowadays. No thanks, dipshits.
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Ironically it has been the most divisive platform. People on it are so hateful of anyone with a differing opinion. Unfriending people they have been friends with for a long time just due to differences in opinions. Facebook itself seems to thrive on this division, and seems to want to push everyone towards its global view of the world. Its politics, its viewpoint.
Why is that a mission. I want to move forward independently of whatever the hell it is you guys are doing.
It's far worse than that -- Facebook is the ultimate spam platform constructed to manipulate users with clickbait garbage. Who would have guessed such a thing would screw up social discourse?
(UK here) until fuckwits started to use it to post political shit. the thing is, more than half of it was complete garbage, reposted from some (and I'm generalising here) mainly very left wing facebook groups.
at which point I became as popular as mud as I cannot believe anything posted without doing rudimentary checking, and disproved a lot of stuff that was being bandied about. some of it wildly off, like this isn't a political perspective issue, the numbers are orders of magnitude out.
brexit came along and everything got MUCH MUCH worse. everybody, even politicans were pissing in the wind there. can't make any predictions on the economy because nobody had done this before, we have no data to compare it to. so either side was just full of shit.
i deleted my 500+ friend FB account before the brexit vote. i'm now back with 5 friends under a psuedoymn.
what have I learnt? that is fucking pointless to vote, as the world is full of fuckwits. facebook reinforces confirmation bias, which inflames more fuckwittedness.
By bringing everyone together, making everyone the same, we remove checks and balances on world power and create tyranny.
Take your "one-world" and "we are all one" peacenik nonsense and faff off.
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Not too bad and deserves the insightful mod. Maybe I'd add a point if I ever got one to give. As usual these years, more disappointed by the lack of funny, however. This is another target-rich topic.
However, you left out the pragmatic meaning, the metric Facebook will use to assess their "success". You can say that the amount of data they collect is one kind of metric, but the more important metric and the one I believe Facebook uses internally as their primary objective is TIME. How much of our time can Facebook waste? From that perspective, the question is "How can we 'get everyone together' to squander all of their available recreational time on Facebook?"
I still suffer from delusions about the existence of grand solutions. Unfortunately they all seem to require putting freedom before profits. Fat chance of that happening, especially while #PresidentTweety is prancing about.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
it's the simplest solution to closing the distance
A member of a group that I admnistered filed a report against me and they cut my account. Facebook asked me to provide proof of identity based on their Real Name policy. I refuse to do so.
I've not had facebook for 2 years. My life is far more productive, I am happier. Get banned.
Closer to the NSA!
Will $CURRENT_YEAR be the year of the Linux Desktop?
Bring the World Closer Together
Honestly, I doubt even Zuckerberg's ego is massive enough to pull that off!
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It's for your own good!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/22/population-growth-sharpest-70-years-record-migration-levels/
There are 538,000 more people here in the U.K. this year than last year. This is an unbelievable figure, and it's the reason why there are endless huge villages being built all over the country, full of hideous, 'modern' houses, with nowhere for white people to escape to any more.
Apparently, white people simply living around their own kind is a 'crime' today, because the media told you so, and you actually believed them.
This is genocide, pure and simple, and there is going to be hell to pay for all those responsible - which includes every white Left wing idiot who has spend the past thirty years silencing anybody who dared to dissent from the official narrative. When will you be happy, Lefties? When there are another 20 million non-whites living here, and white people are a minority in a hellhole that resembles Brazil? How many Africans and Indians will have been born during that time period? Probably another 200 million or more, maybe 500 million. You want the entire world to come and live here because it's somehow 'better' than their own countries - all by magic, of course, nothing to do with white people...
Mission Statement is the corporate version of Fake News. Everyone knows the emperor is naked (pity he's so ugly, otherwise we might at least enjoy the sight).
Yeah, right. "Make the world better" by knowing the fuck out of everyone. Thank Thor I am 2.5 years, and counting, off Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. I don't need any of these shits.
Information is power.
is that many of my friends and acquaintances are well-meaning idiots.