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Has facebook done any of that? Did you come to facebook because of an ad, or was it because you wanted to keep in contact with your friends and family? The fact
by spaceribs 9y ago
Has facebook done any of that? Did you come to facebook because of an ad, or was it because you wanted to keep in contact with your friends and family? The fact that they are trying to use those social ties to make you look at more ads is what's amoral, not the fact that they sent you an email that doesn't apply to you as a "hook".
- ben_w 9y agoThe explicit description at one of the Facebook developer conferences I went to was to do things which caused users to stay for longer. I think the word they used was some pleasant-to-neutral term like “compelling content”, but the goal was to switch from “more users” to “longer stays” - and to use psychology to achieve that. Then there is the games sector. I was only in that sector from 2007 to 2010, but when I left many of them were asking how to make their content “addictive”. I’d say it’s immoral that Facebook et al have wasted subjective lifetimes of their users’ consciousness by addicting them to whichever drug the brain synthesises to reward the minor and unfulfilling social interactions that it provides (and the reverse, the pain from the fear of missing out).