'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,' by Roger McNamee [BOOKS]

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Funnily enough, I expressed that conclusion only yesterday:

Instagram to blur self-harm images after Molly Russell's suicide

Excellent. It needs to happen. They are voracious data gatherers making millions of dollars out of aggregating data about human behaviour, care only that their ‘users’ use the service and care not one whit about the health or welfare of those ‘users’, other than to the extent it may result in bad PR. Until they adapt their business models to be more user/human-friendly, rather than customer/corporate-friendly, and until they acknowledge that the value users receive from their services is vastl…