Make Facebook Safe Again!

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Fragen

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Fragen
Oct 4, 2021 11 Comments

I have been disturbed by the toxic effects caused by social media ( FB & Insta specifically) since watching The Social Dilemma, especially on young people. The emotion is now amplified by the latest Facebook Whistleblower interview on 60 minutes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx5VmAdZSI

What I am saddened by is how a handful of greedy people are harming millions of young people by making them feel bad about themselves. In spite of knowing that Instagram is triggering suicidal thoughts in teenage girls, the leadership chose to ignore because making it safe to people will hurt their revenue. My heart goes to those teenagers who feel insecure after watching the unrealistic insta influencers. I feel sad for those parents whose children are effected by the social media.

I am a person of action and I want to do my part to motivate the leadership at FB to make necessary changes. What can I do to send this message to the FB leaders?

One idea I have is to gather people who believe that FB has the responsibility to make its products safe to society. We can all decide a day and delete all FB products at once. If a significant people uninstall the apps, just for a single day, that can hurt the add revenue by a noticeable amount and may bring the attention of leaders?

Any other ideas on how to get the leadership at FB make their products safe to humanity?

#MakeFacebookSafe #BeMorallyResponsible #ZuckPleaseActNow

Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx5VmAdZSI
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/technology/whistle-blower-facebook-frances-haugen.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739?mod=article_inline

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  • New
    flyaway75

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    flyaway75
    Look at all the responses from fb employees on blind. Many of them found plenty of excuses and think fb had done nothing wrong. The company is already rotten. Nothing you can do to change it.
    Oct 4, 2021 1
    • Amazon
      Fragen

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      Fragen
      OP
      Well, we can't really blame any single employee here. Most employees are just a small wheel of a gigantic machine. No single person understand the machine completely and hence may not fathom the full consequences.

      But the leaders of FB, who have power to rearchitect the product and even the business model need to act now.

      Instead of staying staying stuck in past and brood over the mistakes, we now have an opportunity to rebuild a better social media
      https://www.humanetech.com/rebuild
      Oct 4, 2021
  • New
    griddle

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    Social media is sometimes toxic because people are sometimes toxic. Even if it were possible somehow to detoxify Facebook in a way that didn’t arbitrarily define toxicity in a way that is itself toxic, a sanitized version of Facebook would be less authentic, less interesting, and less useful.
    Oct 4, 2021 3
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    qqqqqq01P
    1) stop using facebook
    2) tell everyone you know to stop
    using facebook
    3) ban facebook from all of your devices (you didn’t think that stopping using it would stop it from monitoring you, did ya?) firewall level
    4) tell facebook to go f themselves when they reach out
    Oct 4, 2021 1
  • Social Dilemma and most FB bashing pieces are the brainchildren of media creators who had no idea how FB works. Talk to actual FB employees if you care about truth rather than sensationalism.
    Btw Frances the whistleblower has a pretty bad reputation at FB and once mocked a interview candidate for speech disability. She’s not someone you should believe in.
    Oct 4, 2021 2