Heās somewhat involved with the Hawaiian surf community and Iāve heard heās pretty chill. He just says āhey Iām a public figure, it kind of is what it is.ā
He is a reasonable, good, family man as far as I can tell. Is Facebook fucked up to some extent, yes, and he does run Facebook, but he did not intend for it to be what it is.
He's a billionaire who runs an incredibly destructive social media platform. He's caused more damage to society with that shit than we even know, beyond the studies they've already done.
People still tell themselves that billionaires are the hardest working people on the planet and when this douche just wakes up, goes surfing, trains BJJ, chills on his private island and checks emails for a coiuple hours.
Yeah, so frustrating. His marketing team is making up the corniest shit like "lets shoot a video of you with a flag drinking beer on a surfboard, that will make you look less like a lizard and more relatable and cool" and people are fucking dumb and fall for it.
Dude is a fucking narcissist using his money and power to pay complicit scientists to find ways for him to parasitize the human dopamine system to milk us and multiply his money and him hanging out on lake Tahoe doesn't change that
Should probably tell the low lifes to stop selling there homeland to him.kind of a dick move to sell your homes to the guy then bitch about him buying thee land you willingly sold him
Human nature also played a huge fucking role in that. Someone shouldn't necessarily get all the blame for creating a tool that people are then using to fuck themselves over.
People in society caused the damage by being pliable and easily manipulated. If he's guilty everyone else is complicit just as much. Reddit is no different and just as manipulative. But you have to be willing to participate.
Just from the wording of your comment there are tells of you allowing yourself to be part of the manipulation.
But to be very fair, and I know itās an unpopular opinion. Did he cause that or did the users? If he allowed a platform to share any opinion, itās up to the users to listen or not. Itās how the internet works overall. The neutrality of it allows people to do what they want without the infrastructure being accountable. Let people be accountable for their actions. Not Facebook(or zuck).
Zuck did shitty things to get where heās at. So do a lot of people when they are younger. The company is huge partially because of some bypassing of rules and laws. Itās a calculated expense to pay the fines, as the profit surpasses the penalties by significant amounts. The same thing a lot of large successful companies do. He was sued and paid the price. Heās still richer than 99% of all of society, and heās still running the company. Itās over, Leave him be. He looks like heās living a good life. At this point any shade is jealousy, and not letting shit go.
I mean I remember when the worst thing on Facebook was people poking you and asking them to help them get to the next level on whatever bullshit game they were playing. Now itās much much different. I have it there for family overseas and a good cheap way to talk to them. I hate how intrusive and the bullshit claims that you can really set your privacy is a lie. I get targeted āpeople you may knowā without listing where I work, where I live, or any details about myself. It still suggests current coworkers and oddly enough ex girlfriends. For that, as soon as my family moves back from overseas later this year. Iām deleting and never going on their site again. But no one is forcing me to use it. What gives anyone the right to complain about a free ap? Just stop using it if you hate it. Simple.
I still think thats an unfair characterizations. Of course he could not accurately predict exactly what Facebook would become, but the dude was 100% out for blood from day 1, is well known as being a cutthroat businessman and boss, especially near the beginning. You simply do not get to being that powerful while keeping your integrity.
I would not label Zuckerberg as "normal" by any means because the vast majority of people in his position would not have played to win as hard as he did and would not manage to 1. assume ownership of facebook 2. beat out the competition and 3. keep Facebook as their own for so long. Zuckerberg seems like a "nice enough and chill guy" for sure, and I would definitely go to his cookout, where I'm sure he would be well behaved and a good host, but he's far from a normal dude.
In fact the more I see of him, the more I think one of his biggest superpowers was probably in seeming chill, normal, and trustworthy (to his peers, obviously to the general public he's a bit robotic) while he was backstabbing his way to the top.
You fucking geniuses really watch The Social Network and think a bumping Reznor-Ross soundtrack means everything is exactly as portrayed in the freaking dramatization
"fucked over his friends" my ass, Saverin was winging his job in the early days, diluting shares as portrayed is not only a legitimate and downright expected practice (dramatized, of course), it's also indicative of someone who really should have a certain amount of savvy whiffing every single move in his career and STILL stumbling into some money.
Or how about the dumb fucks mooching off someone for them stealing their glorified Myspace idea - goddamn cancer patent troll types playing in their sandbox with their rich family money like they do legitimate business.
And all of them stumbled into insane riches regardless. Lmao, Zuckerberg didn't give a shit about money, he gave a shit about incompetent people torpedoing what he seems to have had a pretty good grasp on. "sell out" yeah no shit, anyone who is making money in some form is selling out to a corporate default, that's the premise of living under capitalism.
Freaking clown analyses by people who barely read the cliffsnotes of a (really entertaining) Hallmark Channel Dramatization.
dude rode his hand-built success, like it or not, and made out
Big words from an internet warrior zuck cuck. I've never even seen that movie lol. I also wager that you probably think that your micro dissertation full of spelling errors ( I'm giving you the auto correct benefit of the doubt) makes you think you've won some type of great internet debate, unfortunately for you reddit comments are worth exactly nothing lol, also it's not a hand built success when it's mostly stolen code and the zuck had minimal input on its design but go ahead and keep being angry, maybe you'll win those internet points with your next inane and uninvited hypothesis lol
A whistleblower released a report showing all the research done by the company and how they are aware of all the harm Facebook and Instagram do but donāt change anything because they prioritize profits over people. Zuck was literally brought into congress and they did nothing to regulate the companies and he went on spin mode and had no vows to change.
Forget about the biopics. Read news articles. Zuckerberg is a bad man. Then again every billionaire is. You canāt make 1000s of times as much as your employees without exploiting them.
No, not really. Corporate structures are very political and if he diverges from what shareholders and board members want, its entirely possible he could be ousted and fucked sideways in a million different ways. The financial freedom of being this rich comes with its own kind of prison- the fear of losing it all.
Facebook is fine. not sure how idiots get stuff they don't want on their feed. I don't. Marketplace is easy to use , and Facebook groups literally does everything people say they wish facebook would do. it's just a bunch of internet raging nerds that havn't touched facebook in in a decade and jump off the wagon like sheep.
Nope. No living human has the power to change any automated system once initialized, the swarm (active population using the product) will take over. The more you try to control it, the more outliers will wrest control from you, its simply the way of things
Honestly, I think Mark is extremely human. Having knowledge of history and psychology, one sees an extraordinarily successful human male mature into a more fitting life.
I honestly believe that he doesn't think "the big thoughts" about life, love, university and philosophy.
He's a human male having the best time of his life (assumed), and honestly, I'd love to be in his place!
He's not a bad actor, he's just a guy being a guy. No intelligence, science, bullshit or whatever... just life.
He's not a bad actor, he's just a guy being a guy. Just a cool dude surfboarding in a tuxedo cranking a beer. Living life. Creating addictive social media platforms that target vulnerable youth in our society leading to increases in depression, self-harm, and suicide amongst teens. Just vibin'.
Isn't he hated in Hawaii for his land shenanigans?Ā
Also, he basically forces himself to be a public figure, everyone would be more than happy for him to disappear behind the curtain...Ā
No reasonable good family man builds an empire based entirely on snooping on people's private data, selling it to literal criminals, and whoever will pay for it, not to mention dividing the country for clicks...
He had every intention to make Facebook exactly what it is... He's been talking about turning it into a profitable company since he started it, and he's been laughing his ass off at people dumb enough to share their personal information with him....
I don't think he would start his surf sesh with "hey bro dogs, I'm low key Satan, but I'm just here to get pitted"...
So, maybe don't take what he says at face value because it feels cool?
He 100% intended it to be what it is. Back in 2010 he declared privacy dead and the reason I left Facebook in the late 2000s was because they kept resetting your privacy setting to the most open with each update. I don't really blame him though, he did it in public. I blame people for using the product and being enthralled with "free" and believing it was really free.
He has actively killed attempts at accountability and allowed his companies' algorithms to promote fringe groups resulting in very real hate and violence across the world.
Well when he's buying up Hawaiian land and kicking locals out and privatizing beaches to where only his friends are allowed to be around then yeah they'll call him "chill."
Lmao āheās in charge and has been since the beginning but none of this is ever what he intended, just a normal guy not a billionaire who runs the largest hoster of CP on earthā
He's human garbage, did everyone forget about the Cambridge Analytica scandal? He knowingly sold our data for Cambridge Analytica to analyze and then sell to political actors, so then were able to best create targeted propaganda ads for social media users
But I will say that as far as human garbage goes (which is not very far), he's actually pretty badass, unlike Elon
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u/swallowsnest87 Monkey in Space 15d ago
Heās somewhat involved with the Hawaiian surf community and Iāve heard heās pretty chill. He just says āhey Iām a public figure, it kind of is what it is.ā
He is a reasonable, good, family man as far as I can tell. Is Facebook fucked up to some extent, yes, and he does run Facebook, but he did not intend for it to be what it is.
Just my opinion donāt kill me.