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Facebook is 21st-century cigarettes. Thousands of brilliant scientists and engineers testing and optimizing their product to be as addictive as possible. No con
by aowerijwaerj 6y ago
Facebook is 21st-century cigarettes. Thousands of brilliant scientists and engineers testing and optimizing their product to be as addictive as possible. No concern for the effects on their users or on society. The only concern is making money. Just like with cigarettes, at first it was cool, then it became mainstream, then the dangers became better known, then the CEO was ordered to appear before Congress and gave a lot of misleading and empty responses, now it's used primarily by laggards and poorly-educated demographics. I'll be glad to see them go. Because one day they will go.
- Dahoon 6y agoToo bad you had to ruin an otherwise good post with >now it's used primarily by laggards and poorly-educated demographics I dislike Facebook too (and don't use it) but the above statement is a clear lie. Normal people are who use Facebook, like it or not.
- marmaduke 6y agoI agree with this: closest family, well educated, use Facebook though I ask them not to.
- marmshallow 6y agoWelp, don't hold your breath. Facebook has 1.79B people on the side daily, 2.7B on monthly, and $18B in revenue in the last 3 months alone. It's going to be a while before that momentum slows down and/or collapses.
- op03 6y agoCigarettes aren't free and haven't caused society to implode in every country on the planet. Dopamine on the other hand, that the Facebook cartel pushes through their Like counting, attention capturing/engagement maximizing algos is Free and Unlimited. If cigarettes were handed out for free and in unlimited quantities to everyone, for watching cat videos and accumulating Likes by insulting each other 24x7 then sure comparing Facebook to Big Tobacco would be apt. They are a type of drug cartel that has never existed in history and their execs need to be thrown in jail for being completely clueless for so long.
- theklr 6y agoLol, clueless. Mark originally was going to school to study psychology. Something tells me this isn’t from being daft.
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