I Knew Facebook Was Doomed After a Dinner with Sheryl Sandberg

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Multiple sources report that Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operation officer of Facebook's parent company Meta, will be stepping down. In this 2018 piece, page88 reminds us of the impossible position Sandberg was put in from the very beginning:

exposé, she comes off as the field marshal in Facebook’s aggressive campaign to smash critics and forestall regulation. What’s more, according to documents discovered by Buzzfeed News this month,

I don’t think I’ve ever met a better host. At a table of decidedly anti-corporate women, Sandberg engaged, and seemed to win over, everyone. What did we think of workplace meetings, marriage, children, being heard, leadership, current pieces of legislation, the challenges facing women and feminism? Trump, #MeToo, and the corruption of social media hadn’t surfaced yet, so the “feminist” topics were those fancy morsels from Obama days: wellness, motherhood, and of course sleep.

That month, Facebook stock was up 88 percent for the year. The company’s IPO, a year earlier, was said to have been a bust at the time; that proved wrong. From Sheryl I divined that when your stock is soaring, you can let employees work one day a week, and hold forth on fitness initiatives, nap rooms, and why a good husband is life’s centerpiece.

What I decided is that what middle-class women mean by “work” and “life” is not what Sheryl Sandberg means by those words. The axes of existence for her might be closer to what I’d call “glamour” and “deluxe domesticity” . So this night of book promotion, though there were no desks in sight, somehow counted toward the “work” in the “work-life balance” she was aiming to embody in her life of glamour and luxe.$1.

We can’t remind ourselves enough: With 2.27 billion citizens, Facebook is by far the biggest empire the world has ever known. As with the British one—but more so—it’s inconceivable that the sun could ever set on it. Its users spend 950 million hours on it every day. The social, economic, and political lives of 2.27 billion users depends at least in part on Facebook’s policies, practices, and design. The moral responsibility of its leaders is crushing.

 

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page88 'Empires vanish. The memes that kept them glued together for a short time—from 'Dieu et mon droit' to 'Bring the world closer together'—are exposed as fictions.'

page88 page88 is such an amazing writer, thank you for this

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page88 Fb entirely & easily dominated by mostly inauthentic networks tapping into their algorithms: powerful opaque political info-op schemes, scams of every conceivable ilk, conspiracies, click-bait machines, extremism, illicit markets etc. an addictive swamp. And really not much more.

page88 Nothing in this piece supports the idea that Sandberg was 'put in' an 'impossible situation' from 'the very beginning.' Who put her there? She's not a passive victim.

page88 Article compares Facebook to the British Empire. Well, the British Empire lasted over 300 years. Hopefully Facebook will kakk out long before that.

page88 rjmark_verasity Verasity is the only solution

page88 Source: Sheryl Sandberg's Facebook post

page88 Amazing how Meta deleted 1,3 Billion fake accounts.. perhaps Verasity would be applicable here by way of verifying Proof-of-View ☺️

page88 Is Sheryl Sandberg kin to Ryan Sandberg?

page88 Implosion incoming.

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