Realised but then Foundered? (Re-Work A)

 

  

 

 

"In the ensuing years,since Facebook's inception, Zuckerberg's reach grew globally,but his social mission foundered. Events rebuked his hopes, again and again. Society. did not grow more harmonious. It grew more fractious and much of the blame fell on social media."
 

Facebook in particular faced fierce criticism for, among other(alleged?) offenses, encouraging bullying and shaming, circulating hate speech and lies, spying on the public, polarizing the electorate, and shaping of and the censorship of information, monopolizing the dissemination of information. Social media was transforming society, but not in the way Zuckerberg had promised.

He had posited harmony and integration but achieved fractured societies and social ill -being forecast and invoking cultural chaos and societal demise unfortunately  for the world.

What went wrong?

Do you see? What's your opinion?

 

(Opinion by Digital Anvil)

Note: based initially on a quote from the book:

Superbloom by  Nicholas Carr. ( Edited and Re-worked.)

Additional Resources:

An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang.

Zucked by Roger McNamee