[velobro]

Thanks for helping to ruin the world through advertising.

[dang]

Attacking another user like that will get you banned here, regardless of how strongly you feel about Facebook or how right you are or feel.

The guidelines also ask you not to snark on HN. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.

[samstave]

I agree, Dang, - however - A suggestion for something for YC/HN to do:

Find a way to have a serious objective talk with the greater community on the extraordinarily global reaching issues of the impact of Silicon Valley on society, community, culture as a whole.

Look at what we have to just emerge in the last 1.5 decades alone from "unicorns" in silicon valley:

* US policy seemingly being set/disrupted via twitter

* Mental health studies coming out on the negative impact of Facebook

* Election manipulation through ad-powered platforms such as Google and FB

* Massive cultural dialogue and political revolutions being fueled through twitter

* Assassinations being corroborated through Apple an watch

* Global spying and surveillance conducted through all our connected technology

Just to name a few of the globally impactful issues of our day which directly stem from the efforts of Silicon Valley in specific and the tech industry in general.

As the preeminent VC company in the minds of any young entrepreneur who wants to build the Next Big Thing, I would pose that YC actually has a social responsibility to, at a minimum, foster a conversation on these issues in a meaningful, serious and deep manner.

What are the consequences of MASSIVE success of a company?

[dang]

I don't know of any way to have a serious objective talk with the greater community.

[samstave]

I can't imagine these topics and questions don't informally come up, but it would be healthy to figure out a way to broach them...

[callalex]

I don’t like Facebook either, but personal attack’s are not acceptable on this forum. Isn’t being able to talk to someone who works for Facebook better than not being able to talk to them at all? Why would this person continue to post if they know they will just be attacked?

[ahelwer]

Maybe they would think twice about continuing to burn the most productive years of their only life at this company if they knew what people thought of them.

[saagarjha]

Regardless of your opinion on Facebook, I don't think its employees should have to deal with a personal attack like that. It's one thing to try to get them to reconsider their viewpoint on their job, and quite another to flippantly call them out with a response that doesn't foster discussion.