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The problem is that the relevant social media companies intentionally design their interfaces such that they are addictive. If only there were some way for soc
by olliej 4y ago
The problem is that the relevant social media companies intentionally design their interfaces such that they are addictive.
If only there were some way for social media companies to not re-order or promote certain content in a way that encourages addiction? Maybe by just leaving content in temporal order, rather than order by popularity or trendiness.
That said businesses removing themselves from children in CA seems similarly effective.
Finally, while I think that while Social media companies are significantly at fault - the development of trending, popular, and other non-temporal ordering of content is explicitly and intentionally designed to be addictive, and in no different from a food company adding addictive chemicals to food. I also think that parents have to have at least tried to parent their children, not simply ignored them until it turned out they had a serious problem.