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In 10 years: How Facebook is designed to be addictive

• duncan-donuts 9y ago
  People are already talking about social media and how it's addictive[1]. 1) https://www.google.com/search?q=how+social+media+is+designed+to+be+addictive&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=how+social+media+is+designed...
  • bricksmart 9y ago
    He's pointing out that the material in this article has been discussed ad nauseam and this doesn't present any new ideas.
• scrame 9y ago
  What do you think "stickiness" or "user engagement" are measuring. Same metrics that ran Farmville, and the same metrics putting lootboxes in games now.
  • Buttes 9y ago
    Preaching to the choir
    • taneq 9y ago
      (In the hope that a correction is actually helpful) it's 'preaching to the choir'.
      • tir 9y ago
        No, it's definitely 1/20th of a ream of paper.
• stubish 9y ago
  Or perhaps how Facebook succeeded, because it happened to be more addictive than its competitors. Evolutionary mechanisms will ensure that the most successful social network is the most addictive one.