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I have a theory: Facebook's biggest problem is that it gives people what they want, but what people want is not what makes them happy. Algorithmic recommendatio

I have a theory: Facebook's biggest problem is that it gives people what they want, but what people want is not what makes them happy. Algorithmic recommendations are tailored to capture people for as long as possible, but the short-sightedness of "engagement" erodes the long-term benefit for the user. I think this applies to YouTube as well, or other algorithmically generated "feeds".

marcodave 9y ago
> Facebook [...] gives people what they want, but what people want is not what makes them happy I have a feeling that Facebook is following the same decline of generalistic TV, which, similarly to Facebook - contains mostly ads and crappy/shocking/debatable content - its userbase is becoming more and more elderly - teens start to snob it and move on to the next cool thing - people get bored of it and decide not to bother with it anymore