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FACEBOOK is telling me to CHEAT on my WIFE and our future is SCARY as hell
In 2009, in the second week of January — I opened a Facebook account. I am someone who does not like a lot of change in my personal life and I was reluctant to move away from the now defunct and at that time the de-facto social media platform- Orkut. Most of my friends had already made that move and all the group conversations and catching up with old time buddies was happening on Facebook.. and that is when I fell in the trap, slowly consuming the poison like a billion people on this planet.
Facebook = Ashley Madison + Tinder + Matrimony websites
Around 2010-11 FB kept on pestering me to add my relationship info with all my family members so that my profile will be COMPLETE. I connected my wife’s FB account and explicitly mentioned that we are married. This status is present even today on my profile so FB Database exactly is aware that I am married.
In spite of that, yesterday Facebook sent me a notification to try their “Dating” product. Mind you, this is not some naive, innocent mistake or AI algorithm gone wrong. All they could have at least sent the beta invite (as I understand) at least to those profiles for which FB does not know clearly know whether that person is married or not. But FB just DOES NOT CARE. They started as a website where guys could rate girls and going back to embracing the unethical ways of conducting business.
FB today, is directly competing against Ashley Madison (platform for extra-marital affairs) and Tinder (casual dating to start with). FB is massive in conservative Asian countries where in many cases dating = committed relationships so I am sure they will soon modify their dating platform to fit that user persona as well (matrimony matches).
Yesterday it was the primary fake news platform, today tempting user base to try dating (when fully aware that they are married) and tomorrow? Where does this really end? What is the final vision of tech platforms like Facebook?
