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>I'd wonder if you could drive engagement on an app by spacing out the arrival of user alerts I'm pretty sure twitter does this, for this reason. When you logi
by carrolldunham 5y ago
>I'd wonder if you could drive engagement on an app by spacing out the arrival of user alerts
I'm pretty sure twitter does this, for this reason. When you login you have no notifications. Aw. But then after you click around a bit... ding ding - you get the ones that happened while you were logged out.
You could say it has to load them in the background. I don't buy it. The sensation is too close to what you described. A pause then a hit
- quotemstr 5y agoMore likely, the delayed notification thing was originally some kind of bug, and the bug fix tanked metrics, so they reverted the fix. I'm sure there was no conscious and deliberate effort to psychologically manipulate the user, but laser-guided metrics hill-climbing can produce the same thing without any one person deciding to do it.
- nate_meurer 5y ago> I'm sure there was no conscious and deliberate effort to psychologically manipulate the user Totally. Social media corporations would never do that.
- quotemstr 5y agoSeriously, I don't think they would. The individual people who work there are good and decent men and women. That their aggregate activity has the emergent effect of skinner boxing people doesn't make social media company people cackling comic book villains.
- _jal 5y agoYou don't have to be a comic-book villain to do bad things. Also, you seem to be asserting the people at FB can operate the machine without being aware of what it is or what it does.
- nate_meurer 5y agoThere's a lot of space in between "all employees are good and decent" and "cackling comic book villains". Is it possible that reality is somewhere in between those two extremes?
- exikyut 5y agoOooh. I would like to subscribe to more second-order applications of hanlon's razor please.