How to Look at Facebook

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Devon Bombassei considers the irony of our ‘liberation’ in the digital age.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/142/How_to_Look_at_Facebook
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I haven't read the article yet, but an important aspect is DONT treat it as a platform for philosophical debate!
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in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience. Linda Ellerbee

this goes double for facebook and other platforms

don't be product
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