Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
If you’ve got a dedicated group of friends on a platform and you can’t figure out how to move them all at once, you’re unlikely to socially isolate yourself just because they ratchet up the enshittification another rung.
At the same time, I think people don’t really understand how toxic Facebook is. It’s a physical health hazard for one relative of mine, a mental one for some others. I’m not exaggerating when I say it would be better for their health if they drank and smoked cigarettes.
I don’t think Facebook, strictly speaking, is the problem though. In my experience, it’s the social isolation and poor quality of care that is all too common among Americans young and old alike.
The networking effect in action.
If you’ve got a dedicated group of friends on a platform and you can’t figure out how to move them all at once, you’re unlikely to socially isolate yourself just because they ratchet up the enshittification another rung.
Yeah.
At the same time, I think people don’t really understand how toxic Facebook is. It’s a physical health hazard for one relative of mine, a mental one for some others. I’m not exaggerating when I say it would be better for their health if they drank and smoked cigarettes.
Plenty of people do both.
I don’t think Facebook, strictly speaking, is the problem though. In my experience, it’s the social isolation and poor quality of care that is all too common among Americans young and old alike.
Facebook is a lampry on the neck of a dying man.