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The goal is to improve their experience, that's the complete opposite of hostility. Edit. My response was about website a/b testing.
by sodosopa 8y ago
The goal is to improve their experience, that's the complete opposite of hostility.
Edit. My response was about website a/b testing.
- gruez 8y ago>The goal is to improve their experience And how is that measured by most social media companies? "engagement".
- flukus 8y agoChanging random stuff all the time is not improving my experience, giving me a consistent interface is. And the goal is rarely to "improve my experience", it's to more efficiently manipulate me into spending more money, directly or indirectly.
- gcp123 8y agoFor these companies "improve their experience" = optimizing for maximum time spent with the product even when it's not in the best interest of the people using the product. i.e. Netflix autoplay, algorithmic newsfeed that tends to show more outrage-inducing content, and artificial notifications that aren't from people you know, but are engineered to get you back into the product unnecessarily. They just want to capture as much of your attention as possible because it increases the number of ads they can show/sell. That's not improving user experience, that's hijacking attention to maximize profit. Considering attention is the primary instrument nature has given us for crafting our lives, that's a pretty user-hostile thing to do.