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Seriously? People are blaming facebook for not "making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent." That should be an individual's own responsibility

• fao_ 9y ago
  Normally I'd agree but: 1) Facebook goes out of it's way to show you what it wants to show you, and not what you actually want[1]. 2) Facebook deliberately exploits techniques for you to spend more time on the service, and for you to put more data on the service. At this point I'd liken it to gambling. Is it the gambler's responsibility to ensure their time is "well spent", or is it the state's / organization's? What about when gambler's fallacy (or one of the numerous related cognitive problems) takes hold? What then? [2][3] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956811 [2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook... [3]: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/08/08/monsters-google-and-facebook-like-heroin-gambling-roger-mcnamee/548867001/ https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2...
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