Facebook case
Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before congress this week thanks to the company’s latest series of controversies, this time driven by accusations that the firm Cambridge Analytica abused Facebook data to help Donald Trump win the 2016 US presidential election. Not only that but also because it is accused that Facebook invades their users privacy, collecting all their data and using it to save information about the population, so then it can be used to help in in all kinds of researchs. Another controversy is that according to medical researchs, Facebook is bad for your health. Spending a lot of time alone, disengaged from other human beings, staring at your phone, and clicking on little buttons on a platform obsessively engineered by some of the smartest people on the planet to keep you staring and clicking is not good for you. The latest Facebook scandal is creating a new wave of people performatively deleting their Facebook accounts, and that’s fine. But fundamentally, thanks to network effects, it is hard to quit Facebook. Personally I haven't deleted my Facebook account because it is a very useful way to communicate specially with people from other countries. Facebook is known worldwide thats why it really is difficult to get rid of it, no matter how many accusations the website gets.
Zuckerberg's creation has made a big contribution to the world, basically starting the movement of ''social media'', and building it to what it is today. Facebook manages a lot of information, maybe too much, and it is a great responability to manage all that data. A lot of people have wondered along the years how did facebook make such ammounts of money being a free platform. Advertising was supposed to be the source of Zuckerbergs fortune, but facebook's advertising can't deliver such ammounts of money, and that is where the problem began. Facebook supposedly sold information to diferent clients with different purposses. It is believed that the informatin that facebook sold was used to help Donald Trump in the elections. The way this worked was by seducing people who were indecisive on thier vote to vote for Trump. The intel Facebook gave showed which people were uncertain about who they were going to vote for, and they aproached these people by emailing the with Trump's publicity, convincing them that he was the best choice for america,etc. The main problem here is that despite selling information is highly unethical, the user may actually be giving permission for Facebook to do so. When you create an account, you have to accept the ''Terms and Conditions'' in which Facebook may be stating that they can use your information in any way they want, and as nobody reads this document and just accepts it, Facebook can have the right to do whatever they want with your information. Personally I do not support the idea of selling information, specially because of what it can be done with it if it falls on to wrong hands, imagine if terrorists could access this ammount of information, or what a thief could do knowing your adress, what a kidnapper could do knowing who you are, who you live with, your name, etc. Zuckerberg has to face the consecuences of his actions and give answers, we have to know what has been done with our information or who has access to it.
ResponderEliminarI think facebook is a very good idea, people have the option to use their facebook publicly or privately. There is no need for you to expose where you live, your phone number, your family members and what you are doing as a daily report. We need to know how to use facebook properly.
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