Marcus Zegarowski
Hello everyone!
It is good to be back blogging after a two week layover of it. I have missed this a lot and today’s blog is an interesting one to say the least. The topic is on The Facebook Dilemma.
Before I get into the Facebook Dilemma, I first want to introduce the groundwork of what Facebook is, how it was created, by whom and what facebook did for the world. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg and he did it in his own college dorm room at Harvard with a few others. Facebook is a website which allows users to sign up without any cost and to connect with friends and family. It also allows you to connect with anyone in the world as long as they accept friend requests. It allows its users to share all types of things like music, videos articles, news and their own opinions or thoughts on it. Very cool website to have and it honestly changed the world. video of how to operate on facebook.
The ideas that resonated with me were a mix of both positive and negative. The positives of Facebook is it allowed people to have a voice. It allowed people to come together and bounce ideas off each other. The communication level during the Facebook era became a lot easier and comfortable. Facebook also created a news feed that honestly got there. It creates an awareness that people now have that they did not have before.
The negative said is that facebook became so aware of its users. Facebook began working with data companies that most people aren’t even familiar with and they started knowing things about its users that normally they shouldn’t know about. Facebook needed to increase its revenue because it was flattening so that became an option for them. More negatives is it created a ruthless environment where people could say whatever and it did hurt a lot of people. Mental health became a more vital part of humanity.
Another negative is that it people became hurt from facebook and its freedom of saying whatever to whoever. Facebook ended up fixing that…I guess.
Section 230 protecting private blocks and screening of offensive material of communications decency act. This act basically says do not hold the internet at fault if feelings got hurt on Facebook. It took facebook to make the rules and they basically said violence is not allowed on the news feed, in the comments etc. If violence was created by a user of facebook then that specific user will be kicked off immediately but facebook is going to allow people to go right up to the edge. Going right up to the edge creates more users and more conversation which leads to more revenue. Revenue is their main goal and I do not blame them.
The most inspiring part about this video was Cairo Egypt 2011. A facebook user created a facebook page showing all of the violent acts made over there to innocent people. The facebook page maker did not expect his page to explode like it did. His mindset was not just letting stuff happen in his native country but to try and get it out there just to know he did do something. In just three days 100,000 people joined the page. The Tonesia strike had thousands of people and it all started from Facebook. He called for a revolution and it eventually had the corrupt leader step down.
Facebook has its pros and cons and I believe Mark Zuckerbeg wanted to do it for a good cause. To change the world in a positive manner but all great things come with bumps and bruises and that is what he had to go through.
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