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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.
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...
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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.
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.
I don't see a change in "mission statement" changing any of that, or undoing all the harm so far...
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“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.
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.
Are you denying the Radiant Unity of Zuck's Social(ist) Future? Only hateful misfit extremists would question his wisdom.
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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