By way of Casey Newton at The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have a full-time pollster measuring their approval ratings and social media performance. Or at least they did (and probably will again).

[Tavis] McGinn declined to discuss the results of his polling at Facebook, saying nondisclosure agreements prevented him from doing so. But he said he decided to leave the company after only six months after coming to believe that Facebook had a negative effect on the world.

“I joined Facebook hoping to have an impact from the inside,” he says. “I thought, here’s this huge machine that has a tremendous influence on society, and there’s nothing I can do as an outsider. But if I join the company, and I’m regularly taking the pulse of Americans to Mark, maybe, just maybe that could change the way the company does business. I worked there for six months and I realized that even on the inside, I was not going to be able to change the way that the company does business. I couldn’t change the values. I couldn’t change the culture. I was probably far too optimistic.”

I have nothing to add but a link to Superorganism’s music video for Everybody Wants To Be Famous.

P.S. Delete your account.