{"id":358054,"date":"2021-10-26T05:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T02:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-name-change-cant-erase-the-evil-facebook-released\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T05:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T02:35:52","slug":"a-name-change-cant-erase-the-evil-facebook-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-name-change-cant-erase-the-evil-facebook-released\/","title":{"rendered":"#A name change can&#8217;t erase the evil Facebook released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#A name change can&#8217;t erase the evil <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> released<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his walk-in T-shirt closet last week to make a stunning announcement: Facebook will be changing its name. And while we don\u2019t yet know what the new name will be, I think I may be able to help here. How about this: Boomerware? Or in keeping with Silicon Valley\u2019s penchant for trendy misspellings: LyfeSuck? Or instead of a name, there\u2019s just the sound of Rome burning?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reason that \u201cFacebook\u201d is getting retired, per Zuck, is that he wants to \u201ctransition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What that means is that he\u2019s trying to distance himself from Facebook and Instagram, the very brands he owns. The reason is that those brands have become synonymous with privacy violations, self-harming video challenges, conspiracy theories, bullying, riots, insurrections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A good Vegas bender, in other words, though less healthful as social fabric.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facebook as we understand it today wasn\u2019t really launched until 2006, when it introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> feed and nearly melted down the Internet in the process. The initial feed didn\u2019t just show you posts; it featured a kind of stock ticker that cycled through what your friends had liked, whom they\u2019d friended, almost every action they\u2019d taken. It was so invasive that, in one of the more blatant foreshadowings of the social media age, hundreds of thousands of users threatened to boycott Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facebook later apologized and axed the ticker. Yet a formula had been established, one in which personal developments were treated as news, and correspondingly news was defined down into the realm of the personal. This was to become one of the defining features of 21st-century life. Social media evolved into a kind of window onto the world. Instagram influencers were the new headline-grabbing celebrities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-335.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The rebrand is Zuckerberg's attempt to distance himself from the brand's negative connotations.\" class=\"wp-image-19921231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-335.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-335.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-335.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The rebrand is Zuckerberg\u2019s attempt to distance himself from the brand\u2019s negative connotations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The apotheosis came with the election of Donald Trump, our first social media president, who was the living embodiment of the political made personal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the movie \u201cThe Social Network,\u201d the Sean Parker character, summing up Facebook\u2019s ambition, says, \u201cWe lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we\u2019re going to live on the Internet!\u201d What none of these guys ever asked was whether we could live on the Internet, let alone whether we should.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My conservative friends rightly complain that Facebook is trying to censor them. Yet the most un-conservative thing Zuckerberg ever did was to fundamentally overhaul our way of life without <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lying the forethought that might attend the release of a new ironing board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-336.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before congress about the company's harmful practices.\" class=\"wp-image-19921223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-336.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-336.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/purple-zuckerberg-336.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before congress about the company\u2019s harmful practices.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Matt McClain\/Pool via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So now the unintended consequences have become too big to ignore. Two whistleblowers have emerged with details of just how harmful Facebook understands its own products to be. For all the good Facebook has admittedly done, it\u2019s simply undeniable that right now a big part of the Zuckerberg legacy is to have unleashed forces he can\u2019t control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while Instagram models don\u2019t appear to have been one of the curses released from the original Pandora\u2019s Box, an unprecedented spike in teenage female suicide risk is just one ill to have emerged from this one. These problems, as internal Facebook documents show, are fundamental, tied to core social media features like the news feed and like button, which Zuck is loathe to change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted from The Spectator.\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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And while we don\u2019t yet know what the new name will be, I think I may be able to help here. 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