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

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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?