This is not about Facebook handling our information wrong or not. It’s about human behavior and how senseless we are.
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It is not my intention to defend Facebook. In any case they were doing their job. And the users liked it.
Normally an audience can not be generalized. There is not one-for-all and all-for-one. The majority, in this cases always win. And the companies apply their business model. They have a goal and they implement features and strategies and push as hard as they can to succeed.
Today Facebook is the problem, tomorrow will be something else.
“I spent the whole day playing video games and eating food.
I remember feeling like, ‘oh man I was actually productive today’… after playing video games all day.”
We were following others on Facebook like rats behind the pied piper. Everyone wanted to connect with colleagues, create events, groups. And we enjoyed it.
If we got asked about past events in our life we answered happily. We gave Facebook all our info. For free. As their service.
We played by their rules. And we were happy
“People are way too dramatic, and everyone is always fighting. I also found out the average IQ of my friends was around 4, and it just hurt talking to them.”
We agreed always to give all the information they wanted. We exposed it to our old colleagues. And to the world. The concept of “group of mates” scaled. And now our own intimacy could be seen by anyone. But we could restrict it as we wanted.
Anyone could be a worldwide exhibitionist or simply close their windows. It was up to us.
Facebook is a sort of simulation of our social behavior. And at certain point we, the magnificent users, started to need Facebook. Started to let others know every single piece of thought we had, or memories, or whatever was featured by Facebook.
“It made me compare my life to everyone else’s, and that can only lead to sadness.”
We were happy scrolling endless without reading anything, just watching briefly some happy-pics, memes, hateful posts, stupid posts, non-senses, jokes, cat videos, events… Human posts.
“Too many people use Facebook to air their dirty laundry and have domestics for all to see. I don’t give a shit about your issues and neither does anyone else, goodbye Facebook!”
We Get What We Deserve
And as rats, one day we woke up and watched on the news that Facebook was doing bad with our private information, that Facebook is evil, that is time to care about privacy. Because The Observer published an interview with Christopher Wyllie, who worked with with Cambridge Analytica and personal information from 250,000 people was used without let them know. Damn, Facebook is evil.
But, do the people really care about which business has what personal information? Bullshit.
Most of the people deletes now Facebook because they, maybe, are afraid. But not afraid that someone uses their information. Na, they are afraid of not knowing the impact of all these.
Do we really know which information is handled by the governments? Can we delete our accounts from them? Do we really care about that?
Most of the people don’t really know (We know nothing).
“Too many people use Facebook to air their dirty laundry and have domestics for all to see. I don’t give a shit about your issues and neither does anyone else, goodbye Facebook!”
Now we hate what we loved. Once again, human behavior. And there are many people regretting and saying sentences like “It’s not me, it’s you. Goodbye”. What the fuck should that mean?
Pseudo-profound bullshit. Nothing else.
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Fragments are from this article on Thought Catalog.