“How Facebook’s tentacles reach further than you think”

imadeit-davidjanes:


He reels off the familiar, but still staggering, numbers: the barely teenage Silicon Valley firm stores some 300 petabytes of data, boasts almost two billion users, and raked in almost $28bn (£22bn) in revenues in 2016 alone.

The data will remain in the hands of one company. Even if its current leaders are responsible and trustworthy, what about those in charge in 20 years?

Facebook plays to our base psychological impulses by valuing popularity above all else.

“How Facebook’s tentacles reach further than you think”