Maybe someone finds
love, maybe it even saves the life of someone on the brink of suicide.
So we connect more
people. That can be bad if they make it negative.
Maybe it costs a life
by exposing someone to bullies, maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack
coordinated on our tools and still we connect people. The ugly truth is that we
believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect
more people more often is “de facto” good.
It is perhaps the
only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned. That
isn’t something we are doing for ourselves.
It is literally just
what we do. We connect people that is why all the work we do in growth is justified.
All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that
helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication
in.
The work we will likely
have to do in Chine some day of it. “Based on those words, Facebook’s top execs
knew the issues that could arise form the way its platform works.
In facr, as Buzzfeed
noted, Boz posted the memo a day after Facebook live captured the moment when a
man from Chicago was shot to death.
Shortly after that, a
terrorists who posted about his plans to die as a martyr of Facebook stabbed
and murdered an Israeli teen.
The memo shows the
social network in an even worse light than before, considering its message,
Facebook has been under fire more than usual ever since Cambridge Analytica’s secret
data collection was exposed to the public.
An executive
defending its “questionable contact important practices” (even if it is in a 2
year old memo) is definitely not a good thing.
A former senior
employee told Buzzfeed that the note “speaks to the majority of Facebook
employee views” but not everyone within the company believes growth should be everything:
at least one engineer said it became a significant factor in his decision to
leave.
Former employee Alec
Muffett said that an underrepresented portion of the company’s engineering
community really do care about user’s privacy.
As a response to the
memo’s release, Boz Claimed in statement posted on Twitter that he didn’t
actually agree with it when he wrote it, and he doesn’t agree with it today.
He said its purpose
was to surface the issues he though deserved more discussion within the
company.
