{"id":829,"date":"2017-12-11T21:31:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorennason-dot-com.crwcun8-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2017-12-11T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:31:15","slug":"created-tools-ripping-apart-social-fabric-society-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/2017\/12\/created-tools-ripping-apart-social-fabric-society-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Have We Created Tools that are Ripping Apart the Social Fabric of how Society Works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I think so. I saw more evidence of that today.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video of\u00a0Chamath Palihapitiya speaking on the effects social media.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMotykw0SIk?start=1260&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"W4EkDA\"><em>Chamath joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, said he feels \u201ctremendous guilt\u201d about the company he helped make. \u201cI think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PMotykw0SIk?t=21m21s\">told an audience<\/a>\u00a0at Stanford Graduate School of Business, before recommending people take a \u201chard break\u201d from social media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"pty6T7\"><em>Palihapitiya\u2019s criticisms were aimed not only at Facebook, but the wider online ecosystem. \u201cThe short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we\u2019ve created are destroying how society works,\u201d he said, referring to online interactions driven by \u201chearts, likes, thumbs-up.\u201d \u201cNo civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it\u2019s not an American problem \u2014 this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I think so. I saw more evidence of that today. Watch this video of\u00a0Chamath Palihapitiya speaking on the effects social media. Chamath joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, said he feels \u201ctremendous guilt\u201d about the company he helped make. \u201cI think we have created tools that are ripping&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Have We Created Tools that are Ripping Apart the Social Fabric of how Society Works? - Loren Nason dot com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/2017\/12\/created-tools-ripping-apart-social-fabric-society-works\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have We Created Tools that are Ripping Apart the Social Fabric of how Society Works? - Loren Nason dot com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes, I think so. 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