Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook’s former head of user growth,
told the Stanford Graduate School of Business that he feels “tremendous guilt” over Facebook’s divisive role in society and deep regret over his involvement with the company's work.
Highlights:
- "Former
Facebook president
Sean Parker expressed fears over what the social network programming is “doing to our children’s brains.”
- FB was purposely developed to be addictive, using the “social-validation feedback loop."
- Facebook encourages “fake, brittle popularity” that drives people to keep sharing posts that they think will gain other people’s approval.
-“Even though we feigned this whole line of, like, ‘There probably aren’t any really bad unintended consequences,’ I think in the back, deep, deep recesses of our minds, we kind of knew something bad could happen.”
- “My solution is I just don’t use these tools [any social media] anymore,” Palihapitiya said. “I haven’t for years. It’s created huge tension with my friends…I guess I kind of innately didn’t want to get programmed.”
He also doesn’t allow his children to use social networks, he added.
http://fortune.com/2017/12/12/chamath-palihapitiya-facebook-society/