# Is Facebook evil? Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason — Quartz

<https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/>

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## What Jamie wrote

You are the product. 

> But the imperative to “connect people” lacks the one ingredient essential for being a good citizen: Treating individual human beings as sacrosanct. To Facebook, the world is not made up of individuals, but of connections between them.

Facebook makes a lot of revenue on those connections. What is the cost to everyone else?

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT65: Weekly Thing #65 / Aug 4, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/65/), Notable Links 📌

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