Former Facebook exec: Social media is ripping society apart

Facebook’s former vice president for user growth Chamath Palihapitiya recently gave a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business that’ll probably make you think twice about your social media use (via the Verge). The entire talk is well worth a watch, but some of his most prominent remarks included:

That he feels “tremendous guilt” about Facebook. “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.”

“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created [including the hearts, likes, and thumbs up of various social media channels] are destroying how society works.” He added,

“[There’s] no civil discourse, no cooperation; [only] misinformation, mis-truth. And it’s not an American problem–this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”

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[How odd.. this also seems like a perfect description of the liberal mindset. --Editor]