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Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
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this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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I don’t. But that’s by design.
Dude could have just been successful letting Facebook be a tool to keep in touch with friends and family. Instead he has all these weird, unnecessary ideas about how to manipulate and spy on people.
Thing is, it's not the dude. It's the system that forces most dudes to keep coming up with new ways to make ever higher profit. If they don't, they open the door to competition that would. Then their competitor could eventually overtake them, take their customers and profits, then do a hostile or peaceful purchase of the dude's firm.
Why do you act like this is a bad thing? You just described how it's supposed to work.
Look at Tom from MySpace. He had it all. Got overtaken by the competition. Now he just travels the world, takes pictures, and does whatever the fuck he wants.
Zuck is never going to want for a damn thing for the rest of his life. The fact that he hasn't just fucked off to paradise is a Zuck problem.
Maybe it wasn't a bad thing for Tom, but it very much was bad for the rest of us that Facebook took over.
Totally great for Tom in the short to medium term. Long term.. maybe, if he finds an isolated self-sufficient place to spend the rest of his days. Either way he'll be better off than the rest of us no matter what.
Not sure if sarcastic or I didn't make my point well enough. Just in case I'll expand. The bad thing is that the system necessitates ever increasing profits. It's not the individuals. If Zuck fucks off to paradise Zuck Prime would take over the social media market and keep finding ways to grow profits year-on-year. The problem with ever increasing profit is this profit comes from the wages and time of people one way or another, leaving less for other social things like paying to meet friends, a partner, having and raising children. Multiply this process to most firms in most markets and you'll soon see that this leads to social instability, unrest, crisis, and worse. Like it's happened in the past in different places around the world. Today in the US, Big Tech does it, Big Ag does it, Big Grocer does it, Big Insurance does it, Big Landlord does it, Big Pharma does it, Big Entertainment does it, and increasingly larger proportion of the population gets squeezed out of time and money... for the basics or luxuries like friends and partners. And they're not gonna take it laying down. Electing Trump was one salvo, even if counterproductive.
Yes this is how things are supposed to work in the system but my point is that it's a) driven by the system, not individuals, and b) the consequences are unsustainable.
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Does he really need to do that though? Isn’t he the majority shareholder and he can essentially do what he wants?
It’s the dude. He fucking built the system.
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Until you listen to the Behind the Bastards on him and realize FB started out as a women hotness rating system local to his college. There was no benign origin here.
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Same with all of these tech bros. The dude from Reddit said he's anticipating the destruction of the country because he thinks only he's ordained to rule over what's left. Him and his accelerationist pal Musky.
- The system makes people poorer in money and time, and social ability
- People can't afford to make and keep as many friends
- The system gives people artificial friends that cost less
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- The system uses people's artificial friends to reinforce itself
And to gather marketing Intel on the victim, I mean customer.
Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.
They will take the marketing data, sell the data, and then offer a service to guide users to use a product with the bots.
User: I am so busy and stressed out rn
Bot: Aw, I'm so sorry. When I am stressed I like to play Candy Crush Saga 2 and eat Doritos' new spicy matcha flavor, available at most retail locations.
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F me…
Does no one see the propaganda potential for this? Yeah, let’s give one guy more intimate, influential control over the psyche of hundreds of millions.
I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.
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When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.
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Impressive how a single guy pathology shaped an entire generation and the internet
online human friends still can't compete with seeing them in person ... wtf a chatbot gonna do to fix this?
Not saying we shouldn't talk to friends online and stuff it's just that real humans are having difficulties filling these gaps.
Also, why the fuck would I want a friend like that'll snitch me out and be used to sell me shit? I swear, he wants us hooked on these things and be like, "Subscribe now or your friends will be shut off forever!"
That’s just cause he has no friends, so he assumes you don’t either.
he's right. I don't have any friends.
because I refuse to use his shitty platform and every human I have came in contact with for my entire life is so hollow and selfish they can't interact with a human being without some form of technology.
so I come on lemmy and harass fascist supporting scum as a hobby.
I tried making a new FB account recently, strictly for business purposes and they suspended my account immediately. Looked it up and apparently it’s pretty common. I was shocked at first but am now happy they did that. Fuck FB.
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"the average American has fewer than three people who would suck their dick, fewer than three people that would even consider it. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more.”
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Bit of projection there, Mr. Suck.
Dude made Facebook because he had trouble getting a girlfriend and even now, with near infinite money, needs to make a chatbot because he still can't make friends.
I have very few friends, but chatbots are not the answer.
In order to be my friend, I'm going to have to require verification that you're a human. Please tell me the exact GPS coordinates of all the traffic lights on Earth.
Is that so? Will the chatbots help me pack a van when I need to move? Will they stand next to me at my wedding? I'm thrilled to hear that bots can finally replace friends! (Something the people have been clamoring for)
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Dammit, Zuck! You don't have to hide behind a "chatbot", just fucking tell me if you want to be my friend.
Also, no. But be fucking honest about it.
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Who needs friends when we have each other, amirite? Right guys? …guys?
YES. OF COURSE.
I already know a couple of people who already talk to chatbots as if they were their friends. This is so depressing... And by the current state of things, I might be reading bot publications and replying to bots here and there, without knowing. That just increases my will to die
Not even opening that. I'm tired of these clickbait and hatebait articles.
I would rather talk to a 37 year old human with a hello kitty pfp on some obscure otacore furry/anime forum that absolutely nobody has heard of than give your dogshit AI skinwalkers ten seconds of my attention dawg.
You took my routine. My health. My taste in music, the books I read, the places I go, the movies I watch. My every aspiration and passing thought was a transactional end point for slop firms.
I will die old and lonely before I let you turn my friendships into a fucking commodity LMAO.
I mean he's not wrong about the former, but he can fuck off about the latter.
Making fun of Zuck and his chatbots is a good way to bond with friends.
I could live out the remainder of my life without using a Zuckerberg product and be totally fine with that.
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I would rather talk with the guards in Whiterun than your chatbot, zuck.
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Funny, less than an hour ago I heard Ed Zitron speculate that these uber-rich tech bros invent these things because they don't know how to socialise, and they think everybody is like that.
Fuck you four eyes
I don't think this guy understands the concept of a friend. "Friend" isn't just a speaking machine. Friendship is mostly about some deeds. In many cases even useful deeds, not just fun messing around.
This dude will lose his money. Facebook and meta will collapse under the weight of fake content.
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