malloreon

The point is, treat your coworkers the same, regardless of gender.

Aka all of them? I agree this is despicable, but I’m curious how you make this illegal and not all of advertising.

Don't let your degree stop you from doing what you want, the resources are all there.

I've changed careers a couple times, and so find myself not as far along in my late 30s as peers of my age. My current job is great, but I also have a side project that made me a good amount of money a few years ago that I've let languish in the meantime, because doing both is difficult. I find myself longing to dive back into it, but fear of failure and general fatigue keeps me away.

Similarly, I'm single when most of my friends are married with children, and as such don't see them very often anymore - we're just at different places in life.

That gives me lots of time to date, and I date a lot, but I'm very good at finding short term dating situations and I run away when the potential to become long term appears. I wrestle with the fear that having settling down and having a family has passed me by.

On top of all that, my parents' health isn't the best.

I don't sleep well these days.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I browse the web in English, which is read left to right and top to bottom.

I wish it were different, but by now these apps, and all social media, are extremely good at feeding their users' addictions.

FB employees could use their experience and knowledge to work elsewhere.

None of these people are being forced to work there. They choose to. They are just as responsible.

How many ad dollars did Google make off these videos?

And how much damage did hosting those videos do?

I don't disagree with anything you've said, except that I add one more option to the IC's list: 5) Leave the system: quit and work somewhere else.

And in the case of working at facebook, will most definitely be used.

Yes, the responsibility is ULTIMATELY on zuck, but for it to reach him, every single person in line has to shrug their shoulders and do the wrong thing because it's more profitable to do so.

In that sense, I agree with your push back. However, I lament that we've given tech employees this kind of morality and ethics-free environment to play in.

It's been years since I've even seen a pro-facebook take on HN, let alone anywhere else.

Most people echo something similar to "I don't like it, but everyone else is there, and I don't want to feel left out."

I think it's too much to ask, but I hope that it isn't.

This is absolutely 100% FALSE. Every single person who works on those dark and shady patterns are responsible for their actions. They choose to work for evil every single day because the money is more important to them.

Why do we give tech employees a moral and ethical pass for the terrible things they do just because they work for a company?

These engineers don't work with blinders on, they know that every line they commit is ultimately in service of getting more people addicted, and more clicks on facebook ads.

Someone above them may tell them to write that code, but they choose to write each line when they could be working somewhere else. Last I heard, facebook hires supposedly intelligent people, I daresay they'd be able to to get a job elsewhere.

They choose not to.

People who use apps that sell their data should be bombarded with requests to use that data each and every single time, until they either decide the app isn't worth it or the app decides they should try a different business model.

And ad targeting should be included in that. Add a new notifications button to FB - companies that have requested advertising access to me. If I decline or don't answer, I never see their ads.

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