.speechboy71: I love to hate Facebook — but I would prefer to live in a world where the platform exists.
To Facebook’s critics, the site is a viper’s nest. They’re not wrong. Whenever I make the mistake of scrolling through Facebook’s news feed and see the vacuous, often misleading news stories the site bizarrely thinks I’d be interested in, my blood pressure rises. But while the bathwater may be dirty, the baby is not.
Of course, there are other ways to communicate online — and many people I know have walked away from Facebook, fed up with its business practices. I’ve often debated doing the same. But adapting to new technologies is easier said than done. And if you’re a frequent Facebook user or if you make your livelihood on the site or supplement your income with it, imagine trying to re-create those connections on a new and different site. It would be basically impossible.
But what I don’t want — what none of us should want — is for Facebook the platform to simply disappear. It’s easy to bemoan the corrosive impact that social media has on our lives and how it often amplifies the voices of the most extreme and dishonest. But like any new technology, there is both good and bad, and if one steps back and honestly assesses the impact of sites like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, the positive more than outweighs the negative.
Facebook’s critics are not wrong to disparage the site, but if they fail to recognize how essential it has become for tens, even hundreds, of millions of people around the world, they’re missing a big part of the story.
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