A former Facebook executive has criticised the social network for ripping society apart during a question and answer session.

Chamath Palihapitiya, who worked as Facebook’s vice president for user growth,was speaking at an event run by the Stanford Graduate School of Business on 10 November in which he described feeling “tremendous guilt’ in helping the company attract two billion users.

His comments echoed remarks by Sean Parker, one of the early pioneers of Facebook, who spoke on 8 November, saying the social network provided “a dopamine hit and a social validation feedback loop, that exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.”

However, coverage this week has seen thousands responding to Palihaptiya’s words.

“We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” he told the audience…

-BBC

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If Facebook is doing this with a secret algorithm I’m here for it. Give me all the dopamine in 2017. It’s safe to say I’m skeptical, but it could be a part of it. This could be the future.

Our obsession with Facebook is pretty wild. In 2007 we mostly still had flip-phones and then fast forward 10 years and we have computers that fit in our pocket. Of course we get dopamine to the dome because it’s pretty dang cool.

Just imagine though, if instead of being on drugs for depression we could just scroll through a time-line. Drug-crisis solved. However, the federal government will find a way to take the fun out of it.

The disappointing part of this is that this guy couldn’t see the potential benefits. If Facebook can make you smile, what other mental health problems can it fix? Could it also cure other things?

But if you’re like me, Facebook just makes me even more depressed and you’re constantly in a high and low cycle. Big props to the guy that figures out how to cure cancer from this.

-armchairQB