# web: facebook: a synthetic perspective from the deep brain, by Mark

<< We've learned that Zuckerberg (Mark  Zuckerberg) once called the first Facebook users "dumb fucks" for handing over their private data >>

Jose Antonio Vargas. The Face of Facebook. Mark  Zuckerberg opens up. Sep 20, 2010.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook

<< Part of the problem is that we are simply addicted to Facebook. Like cocaine addicts, alcoholics or smokers, we have a hard time giving it up >>

<< As Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook, admits, the narcotic-like, slot-machine effects were consciously designed into the platform right from the start. As Parker bravely confesses, they "understood this consciously," but they “did it anyway.” >>

Mike Sosteric. Why we should all cut the Facebook cord. Or should we?
Apr 3, 2018.

https://theconversation.com/why-we-should-all-cut-the-facebook-cord-or-should-we-93929

more:

Grainne Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn.  Facebook data harvesting: what you need to know. Apr 3, 2018.

https://theconversation.com/facebook-data-harvesting-what-you-need-to-know-93959

more:

Richard Stallman. Reasons not to use Facebook. Why you should not 'use' (i.e., be used by) Facebook.

https://www.stallman.org/facebook.html

also:

# web: Facebook, every mistake you can imagine, by Mark. Feb 8, 2018

https://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2018/02/web-facebook-every-mistake-you-can.html