| > you don't get billions of users by being evil. Tobacco companies would disagree, no, actually, they would agree, full-heartedly, and pay well for your study that backs that up. > Their engineering team, quality of life, and compensation is extremely hard to beat. Working for Facebook in any meaningful technical capacity makes one a Machiavellian opportunist. For some, that's never worth it. > As a recent college graduate Yes, money is great and alluring. You can buy stuff with it, except for stuff you can't buy. > there really isn't a better way to keep up with friends, family Facebook puts a tax on being human, on trying to exist outside of a social vacuum. Doesn't that bother you? |
I don't know what "trying to exist outside of a social vacuum" means. I also don't know what type of "tax" Facebook puts on being human that isn't levied--to at least some extent--by every other technological advance (telegraph, phone, internet, email, SMS...)