Well the book is good. As in damning. And not just for Mark or Sheryl. Ireland, especially, comes out looking terrible in ways the EU will be most interested in having insider confirmation on (and anyone who’s been following @noybeu’s work will not be surprised by). Will post some highlights tomorrow after I finish reading it.
The more I read through Careless People, the angrier I get. Not because this isn’t anything I didn’t already know from the outside (you only need to know he saw Facebook’s users as “dumb fucks” for trusting him and Facebook’s business model) but because of all the people who are listed trying to get “the powers that be” to do better. “Effecting change from the inside” is the biggest crock of bull.
When you’re fighting an infection, you don’t negotiate with the virus. You don’t try to make the virus a kinder virus. And you sure as hell don’t put yourself in a position where your survival – sickly as it might be – depends on the continued wellbeing of the virus. You kill the damn virus.
Aral Balkan
•Aral Balkan
•The more I read through Careless People, the angrier I get. Not because this isn’t anything I didn’t already know from the outside (you only need to know he saw Facebook’s users as “dumb fucks” for trusting him and Facebook’s business model) but because of all the people who are listed trying to get “the powers that be” to do better. “Effecting change from the inside” is the biggest crock of bull.
When you’re fighting an infection, you don’t negotiate with the virus. You don’t try to make the virus a kinder virus. And you sure as hell don’t put yourself in a position where your survival – sickly as it might be – depends on the continued wellbeing of the virus. You kill the damn virus.