On: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

[ppeetteerr]

Totally agree. There are dozens of companies that aggregate user information (Google amongst them). Like @bognition said, FB lost its cool a while ago.

[quantumsequoia → ppeetteerr]

Is collecting user information itself considered unethical? Isn't the unethical part abusing sharing of that information?

No one rallies against the US Census as unethical

[JohnFen → quantumsequoia]

> Is collecting user information itself considered unethical?

If it's being done without the informed consent of the user whose data is being collected, then yes.

[oska → ppeetteerr]

A long while ago. In Australia I'd say that 2009 was probably the end of FB being perceived as (at least somewhat) cool. 2008/2009 was when I remember being encouraged to join up by peers. My joke way of deflecting that (because I've never wanted to join) was to say that I'd applied but been rejected for not being cool enough. This reply would often leave people non-plussed - I was ironically mocking the idea of FB being cool (at the time) but I don't think most people got the joke.