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I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that all successful online sites are damaging to mental health, and have destroyed our collective attention spans, if
by khazhoux 5y ago
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that all successful online sites are damaging to mental health, and have destroyed our collective attention spans, if nothing else. What sets FB apart is simply that it holds the top spot.
Cut off FB's dopamine dispenser, and people will just rush to the next one over. And so on and so forth.
Even Hacker News... I refresh front page several times a day, looking for another hour I can throw away in my short life, making comments like this that I will then check every hour to see how many upvotes I got from total strangers.
- Valakas_ 5y agoOur brain was not made for the current world we live in. And companies are ruthless in exploiting it. We were made to feel this dopamine of approval from our few tribe members, who we would spend all our lives with until we would die in battle, or hunting or from some disease. We live in such a farfetched environment, most people don't realise how much this affects us. We're striving for the same things that in a hunter-gatherer context would make us happy. Now they don't. We are not meant to be surrounded by strangers, we're not meant to have approval dopamine hits from them and from thousands of them. Our brain must even have trouble understanding what that is. We're not meant to go to some magical device to find a partner to spend the rest of the life with while in the process discarding other strangers, (...)