Facebook, which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, started its journey 13-14 years ago as a platform that can only be used with e-mail addresses affiliated with universities, and is now on its way to becoming the only social media that everyone uses. The number of scandals that emerged on the way we started with “Let’s find our primary school friends” is quite high.
As a matter of fact, the years that have passed have also worn out Mark Zuckerberg. While he was a role model for young entrepreneurs, he suddenly turned into a comic book villain, a cartoonish type in everyone’s eyes. While these were happening, Facebook grew as it grew.
“Bro, there’s a girl at school”
Actually, the launch of Facebook was not like finding our primary school friends. When Zuckerberg and his schoolmates created the first version of the platform, he aimed to rate the girls at the school “according to how hot they are”. Later, the platform had become a social network.
Facebook, which started to fill a big gap on its own with the self-destruction of the popular application at that time, MSN, started to follow Augustus Caesar’s footsteps and established its own empire, albeit digitally, at the age of 33.
In fact, the Caesar reference is one of Zuckerberg’s favorites. Thinking that Caesar did what he had to do to maintain 200 years of world peace, Zuckerberg also did what he thought “should be done” to maintain control on social media. Successive scandals may herald a greater collapse than the collapse of Rome.
“If you can’t hide it, why are you collecting information?”
It is a problem for Facebook to keep the personal data it collects, and another problem is not to keep it. This feature of Facebook, which causes dangers such as profiling when they hide data, was particularly well-known with scandals such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
On the other hand, it is difficult to say that the platform successfully stores the data it collects. Especially before the pandemic and during the first period of the pandemic, the social media giant was the subject of our news as it frequently lost data.
Facebook, on the other hand, continued to grow throughout this process. Using its enormous power, the platform copied the features of competing platforms, and in cases where it could not cope, it went to buy its competitors.
The last crash was a disaster
Going to include Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook continues to work to connect all applications. The last interruption of the platform hindered this project. The platform, which has already been hit hard by the update of the WhatsApp terms of use, has become even more difficult.
Previously, mIRC, MSN, Yahoo! We’ve seen the rise and fall of the ancestors of messaging platforms like Messenger, ICQ, and social media. Could it be that we have come to the end of the road for Facebook and Zuckerberg, which have begun to lose the interest of young people in recent years? It is unknown, but two different Times covers clearly reveal the change in perspective.
The Times’ cover 11 years ago and today;
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