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The emotions that most drive engagement with social media are all negative ones: gloating, FOMO, jealousy, outrage, schadenfreude. Even if the humans running di
by gaius 9y ago
The emotions that most drive engagement with social media are all negative ones: gloating, FOMO, jealousy, outrage, schadenfreude. Even if the humans running didn’t know this perfectly well, their ML would have independently discovered it. Social media by its very nature CANNOT be good for anyone so long as engagement or time on the site is used as a success metric. Which means, at all.
- bby 9y agosocial media FOMO --> crypto bubble?
- iliketosleep 9y agoThank you for this insight. These problems are reflected in modern media which push stories often source from social media (i.e. any sort of "outrage" on twitter is headlines these days). Such news stories are then also consumed via social media, creating a perverse sort of feedback loop that amplifies all the ugliest aspects of humanity. I find it insulting, and it astonishes me the number of people who sheepishly just go along with it.