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I don't disagree with you, but I felt the need to point out the positive feedback loop in the scenario you laid out, that is, the more time you use Facebook the
by betwixthewires 5y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I felt the need to point out the positive feedback loop in the scenario you laid out, that is, the more time you use Facebook the less you spend in your real life and so the alternative becomes weaker even if it was strong when you started. People who use Facebook compulsively didn't start out with no friends and family, if they had they'd have had no reason to create an account on the first place.
- smsm42 5y agoWell, yes, but that's true with pretty much everything. If you're addicted to reading Clancy novels, you spend more time reading Clancy novels and less time talking to friends, therefore Clancy novels are more addictive than heroin. Sounds ridiculous, right? Yes, there's a positive feedback dynamic in any addiction, every basic text on it mentions it. But that's no reason to jump to "most people never would be able to get rid of the habit". This dynamic can be overturned, and there are many tools to do it, and in this particular case it's easy - you body won't disintegrate and you would not feel like armies of Hell descended on you to torture you if you don't use facebook for a week.