http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/to-understand-facebook-study-capgras-syndrome

As I am rather deeply aware, in a technical way, of precisely how FB structures and restructures our minds and relationships… and have studied it intensively for some 9 years, I would classify it as a system that primarily damages or invalidates many forms of human relation and cognition; that is to say that frequent exposure to it, for many if not most people, is harmful.

It is, effectively, ‘a stupidity-producing device’, and actively thrives upon this property. This propensity is, of course, adjusted by people’s usage purposes and profile of use, but, in general, it is like the vast symptom of a disease to which it primarily contributes where it does not outright invent it.

I am sitting on a model that would invert this, and the way human beings relate with electronic information in general (the knowledge amp), but I do not know if I will be able to interest others in pursuing such a bold and dynamic restructuring of our fundamental relationships with information.

I remain modestly hopeful that I might.

http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/to-understand-facebook-study-capgras-syndrome