Facebook Execs admit to screwing up society

[Dumpster Diver]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RS3XbT2pU

[Emil El Zapato]

I find this idea really interesting. Facebook has had major impact, but if one wants to consider messing up society consider Fox News. I've seen society degrade dramatically since the advent of that very negative news source. Rupert Murdoch - The False Prophet

[Aragorn]

I find this idea really interesting. Facebook has had major impact, but if one wants to consider messing up society consider Fox News. I've seen society degrade dramatically since the advent of that very negative news source. Rupert Murdoch - The False Prophet

I don't think this would be quite the same thing. As an openly US-conservative news outlet, Fox News can be considered a source of misinformation — as most mainstream news services are, US-liberal outlets such as CNN and MSNBC included — but the way social media have affected society is quite more profound. For one, news outlets don't create smartphone zombies, and they also don't propagate malicious software that infects the devices of thousands of their viewers.

[Emil El Zapato]

Hey Fred,



This is what you've been dealing with...if you play the game you will always be on the defensive in some dysfunctional circles.

Anyone trying to justify or rationalize Trump's behavior is doomed to sound absurd if not irrational. It is sad when we are completely incapable of admitting we were wrong.

Admittedly being that wrong can be foundation shaking...but then when we are that wrong that in and of itself begs for serious analysis.

[Emil El Zapato]

Hey Aragorn,

I don't know if you corresponded with Fred, but my last post was not directed at anyone on this thread...

[Aragorn]

Hey Aragorn,

I don't know if you corresponded with Fred, but my last post was not directed at anyone on this thread...

No, I haven't spoken to Fred today. Thanks for clarifying either way, because I did indeed think that your post was directed at Fred. Your post initially had only the graph and no text in it, but you added the text — and Fred's name — later, and that made it come across as an ad hominem to me.

I tend not to thank ad hominems, so thanks for clearing that up.

[Emil El Zapato]

No, I haven't spoken to Fred today. Thanks for clarifying either way, because I did indeed think that your post was directed at Fred. Your post initially had only the graph and no text in it, but you added the text — and Fred's name — later, and that made it come across as an ad hominem to me.

I tend not to thank ad hominems, so thanks for clearing that up.

my bad...it wasn't really very clear....

I'd never ad hominem Fred...he has positive qualities...

[Dumpster Diver]

I tend to ad hominem everybody, especially gassy folks like Argon.

[Aragorn]

I tend to ad hominem everybody, especially gassy folks like Argon.

Gassy? Are you insinuating that I would be exhibiting above-average degrees of flatulence?

See folks? This is the gratitude you get as an administrator. You fix these people's videos, you correct their wrongly embedded links, you put their threads in the correct forum when they can't be bothered doing that themselves, you teach them about GNU/Linux, and then for your reward, they call you an old fart.

I want my mommy!

[Dreamtimer]

That's definitely one of the kids whose parents said they ate their halloween candy:.

[Dumpster Diver]

Argon is a Nobel gas right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon

...but if you have gastric problems, I’ll understand.

[Elen]

Argon is a Nobel gas right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon

...but if you have gastric problems, I’ll understand.

Hey "Smarty-pants" what happened to spelling...

[Aragorn]

Argon is a Nobel gas right?

It is actually a noble gas, yes. But that said, I will not claim any knowledge about whether Alfred Nobel had intestinal problems. Rumor has it that he did blow up a few things in his time, and that this is why they reward a number of people in his name every year if they can do the same.

[Dreamtimer]

I've been known to be gassy. It doesn't require eating beans. But I'm not noble or Nobel and won't be claiming any holy blood lines.

In the OP video, the image of Zuckerberg looks like his mom caught him with drugs. Appropriate, sort of.

[Dumpster Diver]

Hey "Smarty-pants" what happened to spelling...

I can't spell, blaime the spel-chekr