TODAY, Facebook has a special profile design ready to implement after every international tragedy. When people want to show solidarity, Facebook is right there waiting to insert itself as a benevolent source of human compassion and of course not at all like a multi-billion dollar corporation that cares more about ad revenue and marketing reach than actual peoples’ lives.
FACEBOOK, the digital Wal-Mart of social media. Where you never know who you will find, or what shameless click bait will find you. Where headlines can be as misleading as they want to be, and articles can carry you into a filth of cross promotions and shady 10-page “articles” that could just as well fit on 1 page.
SOCIAL MEDIA never leads to misinterpretations or misplaced emotions. Friends and family always agree with you and never judge you. And anyone outside your personal bubble of ideology can simply be ignored, à la George W Bush.
PROUD SPONSOR of the Republican Presidential Debates. Facebook: “Making crazy people look presidential since 2015.”
LIKE OR DISLIKE? Of course, there is a correlation between the number of “shares” on Facebook and the price of Facebook’s shares on the stock market. It is a business like any other, grown exponentially in influence each day by the attention we devote to it.
Let’s CHANGE Facebook, or leave it altogether. If it were a non-profit, Facebook could remove its ads and operate off its current surplus of funds. It could even show solidarity following public tragedies without profiting. And if the website were to run out of money someday, decades from now, each country could pay a small annual maintenance fee to keep the website alive. (fee would be scaled based on the GDP of each country)
Let’s DEBATE the idea and give it some consideration. It should go without saying, sharing this on Facebook helps both sides of the debate!