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It's been a long time since the big news about psychological experiments performed on users without their consent [0]. However, intentional emotional manipulati
by nabilhat 5y ago
It's been a long time since the big news about psychological experiments performed on users without their consent [0]. However, intentional emotional manipulation unquestionably remains a core goal for the mainstays of Facebook - marketing, advertising, propaganda, and politics. Heart rate is a visceral emotional indicator that would add value in the context of Facebook, in ways that aren't as accessibly exploitable from the ecosystems of Apple.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_emotional_manipulation_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_emotional_manipulatio...
- adolph 5y agoYou could replace Facebook with a lot of different things and the song remains the same. intentional emotional manipulation unquestionably remains a core goal for the mainstays of [political parties|junkfood manufacturers|movie industry|religion|auto-energy-highway combine|...] - marketing, advertising, propaganda, and politics
- ahahahahah 5y agoThere's a lot of influential, intelligent people who believe that showing like counts in apps like Instagram are bad for people's mental health. There's other that think that it's actually good for mental health. If you are a company with such an app, and you care about doing the right thing, how would you figure out whether or not showing those like counts affects users in that way? How would you figure out how to do things in ways that don't affect users negatively?
- ahahahahah 5y agoI'm not saying that running a test of the two and measuring how it affects users is necessarily the best way, but, honestly, it's not clearly wrong to me. If you are worried that your current thing is bad for users mental health and that this other approach is better, isn't it, in fact, the morally right thing to check that?