


Not really all that into people (including clients) seeing all that. I deleted my account shortly there after when I started working as a therapist. Question: how fun is it to have a discoverable, written correspondence, with old stoner pals, collage friends and exes, that your elderly relatives, your children, your students, your colleagues, your clients, your potential employers and like literally the police can read it, for like, forever? People started FBing you before job interviews and suddenly the whole deal was practically Orwellian.

It was so AWESOME to reconnect with the friends you lost touch with, learn about their accomplishments and foibles, share memories and see how old they got.Īnd then everyone’s mom was on it, and you couldn’t talk about the time you took acid back in the day with your buddy because their nephew from Michigan could see the conversation, and just like that, the party was over. I should not be writing while I’m in this mood.īut I used to love it back when it first started.

Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share his concerns, polite as they may be to his face." First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. "If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter.
