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Careless People is a memoir/expose by Sharah Wynn-Williams about her time working at Facebook. It is both deeply horrifying and unsurprising. She presents Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sanberg, Joel Kaplan, and other top players at Facebook/Meta as hypocrites and liars, lacking any sense of ethical responsibility. Everything is in service to growth of the platform, and money. Mark Zuckerberg comes across as an entitled man-child, indifferent to the consequences of his actions or the actions of his companies.
The author starts out as starry-eyed and convinced that social media can be a vehicle for good in the world. She talks herself into a job at Facebook and then stays as she becomes more and more disillusioned and worried about the direction of the company. She blames herself for her part in all the mess created by the leaders of the organization. She wonders if she should have resigned before she was finally fired. My answer is yes. However, I do understand that she had severe health issues, and she needed the health insurance, and it would be hard to leave all the money behind. I would do the same thing. Nevertheless, she should have left earlier.
But she has written a brave, audacious, terrifying look at the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Careless People is a memoir/expose by Sharah Wynn-Williams about her time working at Facebook. It is both deeply horrifying and unsurprising. She presents Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sanberg, Joel Kaplan, and other top players at Facebook/Meta as hypocrites and liars, lacking any sense of ethical responsibility. Everything is in service to growth of the platform, and money. Mark Zuckerberg comes across as an entitled man-child, indifferent to the consequences of his actions or the actions of his companies.
The author starts out as starry-eyed and convinced that social media can be a vehicle for good in the world. She talks herself into a job at Facebook and then stays as she becomes more and more disillusioned and worried about the direction of the company. She blames herself for her part in all the mess created by the leaders of the organization. She wonders if she should have resigned before she was finally fired. My answer is yes. However, I do understand that she had severe health issues, and she needed the health insurance, and it would be hard to leave all the money behind. I would do the same thing. Nevertheless, she should have left earlier.
But she has written a brave, audacious, terrifying look at the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world.