The Stalker
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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back. —RUSSIAN PROVERB
“In April 2017, a confidential document is leaked that reveals Facebook is offering advertisers the opportunity to target thirteen-to-seventeen-year-olds across its platforms, including Instagram, during moments of psychological vulnerability when they feel “worthless,” “insecure,” “stressed,” “defeated,” “anxious,” “stupid,” “useless,” and “like a failure.” Or to target them when they’re worried about their bodies and thinking of losing weight. Basically, when a teen is in a fragile emotional state. Facebook’s advertising team had made this presentation for an Australian client that explains that Instagram and Facebook monitor teenagers’ posts, photos, interactions, conversations with friends, visual communications, and internet activity on and off Facebook’s platforms and use this data to target young people when they’re vulnerable. In addition to the moments of vulnerability listed, Facebook finds moments when teenagers are concerned with “body confidence” and “working out & losing weight.”
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“Give me a daughter with your stubborn heart, or your even temper. Give our children your dark-bright eyes, or your enchanted smile. So that even when we are gone, the world will find within them all of the reasons why I loved you”
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“Every office worker is just a little puppet, and when the puppet breaks or gets mangled in the machinery gears, well, that’s no problem at all for the office system. The office is really just a machine like me, its staff easily replaceable components. People tend to overestimate their own value and importance, but I understand that this is crucial for the employee’s psychological motivation. Only if they feel this way will they show up for work, day in, day out.”
― Hard Copy
― Hard Copy
“Silicon Valley is awash in wooden Montessori toys and shrouded in total screen bans. Parents at work talk about how they don't allow their teens to have mobile phones, which only underscores how well these executives understand the real damage their product inflicts on young minds.”
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“Go back to being a lobster?! After all he had been through, even if Jules were to put him back in the water the very thought of rocks, seaweed, and the markings of the depths filled him with horror. He had tasted the light of human living and he could no longer do without it.”
― Lobster
― Lobster
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