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Still Evil After All These Years October 6, 2021

I’ve been railing against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for a long time, to no avail (and no surprise).  But I would like to be on the side of right, which Facebook definitely is not.  And I’m not a billionaire, which Mark Zuckerberg definitely is, many times over.

But to quote the movie title, something’s gotta give.

Anyone who has read the expose by the Wall Street Journal, and watched the testimony by Frances Haugen, knows that Facebook continues to be evil.  Worse, they used to apologize and say they are making improvements.  As of two weeks ago, they are not even bothering with that lie.  They are trashing Frances Haugen, and saying they are in the right.

I have never been a member of Facebook, and will never be a member of Facebook.  I’ve been told that I have to be, for job, or to obtain information that organizations only post on Facebook.  I’m sorry.  You are the ones that are morally bankrupt, not me.  And if you use Facebook, you are also morally bankrupt.  You stand for nothing.

Here is Zuckerberg’s real problem.  If you were already by far the richest person in the world, in your 30s, what is the rest of your life for?  I obviously am not in that position, but I’ve tried to give it some thought.

I would like to think that I would try to be remembered as a kind and equable person who contributes positively to society.  Do you really need another billion dollars?  Yet it seems that Zuckerberg is not a particularly deep thinker.  He has to know that his espousing of connecting people for peaceful purposes is highly flawed, but he does want that extra billion.  He is driven by money, and by what money measures. So Zuckerberg doesn’t know what the rest of his life is about, except for acquiring that next billion dollars.  To tell you the truth, I’m not sympathetic.  He is not mentally well, and because of the power he wields, he needs to get his act together.