Linux creator and principal developer Linus Torvalds has expressed his disdain for social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with Linux Journal<\/strong><\/a>, Torvalds labelled the platforms a “disease”, arguing that they seem to enable bad behaviour.<\/p>\n “I absolutely detest modern ‘social media’ – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. It’s a disease. It seems to encourage bad behaviour,” Torvalds said.<\/p>\n “The whole ‘liking’ and ‘sharing’ model is just garbage. There is no effort and no quality control.”<\/p>\n “In fact, it’s all geared to the reverse of quality control, with lowest common denominator targets, and click-bait, and things designed to generate an emotional response, often one of moral outrage.”<\/p>\n Torvalds said the idea of sharing opinions and ideas anonymously did not lend itself to reasonable discourse and that anonymity is important if you’re a whistleblower, but your rants on social media should not be visible unless they are attributed to you personally.<\/p>\n This follows a recent call-to-action<\/strong><\/a> from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, who urged students at Stanford University to delete their Facebook accounts.<\/p>\n Acton criticised the profit models used by Facebook and said the company was not capable of properly curating content on its platform.<\/p>\n Linux creator and principal developer Linus Torvalds has expressed his disdain for social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":276197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,12605,1799],"class_list":["post-301714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301716,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301714\/revisions\/301716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Millions of Facebook user records exposed on Amazon server<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"