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cbabe

(6,642 posts)
Sun May 4, 2025, 12:00 PM May 2025

Careless People/Sarah Wynn-Williams

First hand account of Facebook and the people and the decisions and the chaos, misogyny, racism, naïveté.

Watching entitled kids with way too much money and power.

Disturbing.

Thoughts?

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txwhitedove

(4,385 posts)
1. Wow, super hot book at library with long line of holds on all formats, book, audio, and ebooks.
Sun May 4, 2025, 03:47 PM
May 2025

cbabe

(6,642 posts)
4. Some ugly truths: fb rape culture, Myanmar genocide, China human rights violations, etc.
Sun May 4, 2025, 04:03 PM
May 2025

Response to cbabe (Original post)

cbabe

(6,642 posts)
6. Ok. You don't like the author. What do you
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:07 AM
Jul 2025

think about the book? Do you have an insider’s take on fb?

I’m always looking for good criticism.

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cbabe

(6,642 posts)
8. I was a member of a proto burning man artsy group. Smart
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:30 AM
Jul 2025

techs messing around with art. I was struck how second hand/old hat ideas were applauded as long as there were a few blinking lights.

Someone remarked: it’s because they can talk good.

So ‘sales’ was the point. Not creativity or beauty or…

Response to cbabe (Reply #8)

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