Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook

Our scepticism of illusions goes as far back as Plato's cave and underpins the fundamental misgivings we have of Facebook.

I think this 'throws the baby out with the bath-water' and while Zuckerberg is not the best person to rep these ideas, a sane attempt to rehabilitate quite how instrumental Facebook is in how we live has been made here:

https://iainmait.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.htm...

Basically:

"...we form groups around these shared illusory experiences, which gives them an inherently political basis, distinct from ‘narcissism’ or other rituals that we skeptically associate with illusions. The net effect of these processes is intimately related to contemporary mass movements, many of which Facebook has been at the center of. Both the election of Trump and the subsequent mass protests can be understood in this way."