405
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
(www.404media.co)
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
405 points (95.3% liked)
Technology
69705 readers
3063 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The one and only good thing about having less friends than in my teens is that I have more time to focus on work, which makes me money (directly proportional to how much I bill my clients). That and being able to move off Facebook because my friends are on Signal and Telegram.
Now, Zuck thinks I want fake AI friends so I could spend hours per day on Messenger again? Hell nah. I'll go grab a beer in the pub or message one of my remaining real friends. If I dedicate my life to chatbots, I'll soon have even fewer.
Trading youth for slaving away for capitalism is lame tho.
Money can’t buy youth and when it’s gone it’s gone.
Wake me up when there's a system out there where I don't need money to buy a home or go on vacation somewhere warm when it's -30 outside. Unfortunately I don't have a trust fund, so for now it's work rather than drinking every day and tons of extremely shallow friendships. To be clear, I'm not saying I don't have friends, I'm just saying I no longer have hundreds of people on Facebook I could just randomly message "what's up" to without it being considered weird. Now it's down to maybe 10-20 people who would help me hide a body if I called them at 3 AM.