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Lol. Go and read Hooked book. The shitty things Silicon Valley does to keep users addicted to their social media apps would blow your mind. Facebook is a net ne
by blocked_again 6y ago
Lol. Go and read Hooked book. The shitty things Silicon Valley does to keep users addicted to their social media apps would blow your mind. Facebook is a net negative to the society. The reason people are using their products are because they are addicted. Not because it's making their life bettter. It's like drugs. Atleast the drug companies have ethics to not give you some unless you continue paying money. Fucking Facebook want users scrolling their shitty feeds and clicking on notifications all day so that Zuckerberg and VCs can buy more yatchs.
- scarface74 6y agoAnd that could describe, alcohol, weed, sweets, gambling....
- eloisant 6y agoYes, that why those things are either illegal or heavily regulated.
- scarface74 6y agoSweets are heavily regulated?
- blocked_again 6y agoIt's heavily regulated by parents.
- scarface74 6y agoSo now we need the government to treat us all like children who are incapable of making our own rational decisions?
- blocked_again 6y agoYes. A government taking care of the citizens like parents do would be the best case scenario.
- scarface74 6y agoplease tell me you are being sarcastic.
- rmrfstar 6y agoscarface74, I have a labor-saving recommendation for you. Train a GPT-2 on Milton Friedman speeches and Heritage Foundation papers. Let that handle your comments. It will save you some time, and perhaps exhibit a little more civility.
- camgunz 6y agoPeople are sometimes capable of making rational decisions, but there's a whole industry (advertising, maybe you've heard of it) dedicated to working against that. Think of really any common sense regulation: - Can't use leaded gasoline - Can't use asbestos - Must wear a seat belt - Cannot drive while intoxicated If people always behaved well, we wouldn't need laws. They don't, so we do.
- scarface74 6y agoAll of those cases cause external harm to other people. Logging into FB and posting memes doesn’t.
- bobwaycott 6y agoI’ve known people who have been harmed by logging into FB. Sometimes it’s the memes, comments, DMs, and disinformation that causes harm. Sometimes it’s Facebook running a social experiment without consent to see if they can alter users’ moods.
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- stale2002 6y agoAlcohol, gambling and the like are heavily regulated.
- scarface74 6y agoYes and because it’s heavily regulated in the case of alcohol and because the government is so effective, it’s impossible for people under 21 to get alcohol.
- Spivak 6y agoAnd games (video and irl), food, movies, books, podcasts, amusement parks. You're essentially arguing for the regulation of anything that gives humans a dopamine hit. If social media is bad for changing their product so that people use it more then so is Doritos for doing the same so people eat more.