Chamath Palihapitiya – Social Media is Ripping Society Apart

Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice-president of user growth Facebook, expressed remorse for his part in building tools that obliterate ‘the social fabric of how society works’. Social media is creating a society that confuses ‘truth and popularity’.”The tools that we have created today are starting to erode the social fabric of how society works,” former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya says.

He says what social media does is “exploit our own natural tendencies in human beings to get and want feedback.”Palihapitiya said social media exploits “our own natural tendencies in human beings to get and want feedback.” He said the question people must ask is: “How do we live in a world where that is now possible?”