“We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. Your behaviors, you don’t realize it, but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you’re willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence.”— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.comTagged: Social Media, Social Media Is Bad, Facebook
“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts, likes, thumbs up — and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. And instead, what it is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short-term and leaves you even mor…”— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.comTagged: Social Media, Social Media Is Bad, Facebook, Internet Culture