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FB and Twitter are the sugar-pushing companies of the mind. With discipline, they would actually be a good thing. But they appeal to our base instincts in a way
by jiveturkey 9y ago
FB and Twitter are the sugar-pushing companies of the mind. With discipline, they would actually be a good thing. But they appeal to our base instincts in a way that is hard to resist, and they leverage that to their own advantage and to the detriment of their own users. sugar, tobacco, tweets.
Building distributed (p2p if you want) versions doesn't solve the real problems, and will never be successful because the "better" versions don't hit the same triggers.
- joe_the_user 9y agoFB and Twitter are the sugar-pushing companies of the mind. With discipline, they would actually be a good thing. I can and have created a Facebook group, choosen the members and moderated the discussion. The discussion winds up as civil as here (imo of course). I don't know of any way to do this on Twitter. Given this and similar other aspect of the interfaces, I don't think one can equate the two platforms (which isn't to claim Facebook doesn't have problems).
- jpindar 9y agoPeople are live-tweeting from Syria right now. If you think Twitter is all people swooning over pop stars, maybe you're following the wrong people.