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by colordrops 1716 days ago
I worked with Facebook for a short period in 2011 when at a large social gaming company, and it was completely obvious then that they were sociopaths that intentionally took advantage of base instincts for profit. These people made a game of it, and openly slept around on their spouses as a show of being part of the in-group. I can't imagine that its gotten more "disconnected" and better since then.

I understand that its a nice gesture to give others benefit of the doubt with charitable interpretations but don't be naive about it - Facebook doesn't deserve this.

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For those downvoting, I should have made it clear that the FB employees, as well as employees at the company I worked at, explicitly discussed using psychological tricks to milk people, literally talking about them like animals, such as cows and whales.