As a follow-up question, what are your thoughts on this longitudinal study from 2017[1], which found that "the use of Facebook was negatively associated with well-being", such that any form of engagement with Facebook was negatively correlated with a wide range of self-reported mental, emotional, and physical health indicators? Does the Facebook PR page you linked contradict that somehow?
Do you think it’s a good strategy to try to undermine somebody’s position by “just asking questions” about why they hold an unpopular opinion on HN? Why not address their position directly rather than just sic a downvote mob on them?
Disclaimer because you’ll undoubtably go through my comment history: I used to work at Facebook.
I have never understood why this is considered to be bad form.
Going through someone's comment history often provides useful context and is often one of the quickest ways to try and find out if they are discussing something in bad faith or not.
Plus it can often just be interesting.
To try and assert that it is impolite for people to read what you have chosen to post on a public forum, purely because it happens to be from a previous discussion, is to attempt to enforce a social stigma on base curiosity.
Luckily it has about as much sway as farting into a thunderstorm, but why try it in the first place?
Nobody would take an author seriously if they tried to insist that people reviewing their new book aren't allowed to read the old ones and I feel the same logic applies here.
It's not even a reasonable accusation; the comments from the user supposedly supporting facebook is actually just three fairly thought out, nuanced comments.
edit - also, where is this downvote mob? Are you saying that the comment in question should have far more ego points than it does? The comment is not greyed out. And if so, how do you know?
Most people use facebook to satisfy vices such as outrage addiction, vanity, and jealousy/noseyness.
Even cable news runs an uplifting story every now and then, but for the most part simply magnifies and profits from the worst in society.
I'm not saying that Facebook is Darth Vader. I am saying you're logic is flawed. What you wrote is not a serious discussion.
Regarding Facebook, I enjoy using it, its better than Twitter for less toxicity.