Facebook digs a deeper hole in response to former exec
0Facebook digs a deeper hole in response to former exec.
A former Facebook executive recently said the site’s addictive qualities are destroying social interaction and the fabric of the global community. Facebook responded this week, and it tacitly confirmed his criticisms.
Chamath Palihapitiya, the former vice president of user growth who last worked at Facebook six years ago, spoke about social media to a group at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He criticized the site for using “short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops” that are “destroying how society works.” Given his position, I’d say he’d know better than anyone how such things worked.
If that was where the story ended, then Palihapitiya would just be one of several former Facebook employees and investors who have come out against the site recently. But Facebook has made his criticisms more noteworthy by issuing a direct response.
That response, also reported by The Verge, reads as follows: