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I don't think it's fair to blame users. These corporations hire some of the smartest people in the world to design their products in such a way that they maxim
by skohan 7y ago
I don't think it's fair to blame users. These corporations hire some of the smartest people in the world to design their products in such a way that they maximally retain and engage users. You can't expect a normal individual to stand against billions of dollars worth of investment in a system designed to make them act against their own self-interest.
- lm28469 7y agoAt some point you have to own up your actions. I'm not a super human, I managed to quit facebook just fine, people are not tools, they know what they're doing. You don't have to stand against it, simply don't use it. Just like most people don't do heroin or control their sexual urges.
- skohan 7y agoThat's fine for any given individual, but in aggregate you should not be surprised that systems which are designed to take advantage of human psychology to achieve a result perform exactly as intended. You bring up heroin, but heroin is a heavily regulated controlled substance precisely because it's an example of something which people in general cannot be reliably trusted to control themselves with.