Facebook, the social network that killed privacy

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2024-01-31 18:08:06

Facebook hasn’t just breached our private lives. 597943956/armada1985 – stock.adobe.com

ANALYSIS -By boosting the ego of the multitude with hearts, thumbs up, “likes”, the social network has artificially stimulated the desire to show off.

Mark Zuckerberg made André Malraux lie. Man is no longer this “little pile of miserable secrets” that the intellectual was talking about. The young geek from Silicon Valley, and others after him, have definitively transformed it into an infinite pile of monetizable data.

This change has been rapid and it owes a lot to Facebook. What you like, what you hate, what you think, who you talk to… He knows everything about you. Or almost. Of all the social networks, none has pushed the digital devouring of our privacy this far.

Facebook hasn’t just breached our private lives. He tore down all the walls, before decreeing that this open world constituted the new social norm. “Privacy is over», swore boldly Mark Zuckerberg in 2010. While the young prodigy bought four houses adjoining his own near Palo Alto, California, to live out of sight, he encouraged Facebook users to…

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