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I might agree with this if applications and devices were not created by people who have degrees and jobs explicitly aimed at getting and holding your attention.
by falcolas 4y ago
I might agree with this if applications and devices were not created by people who have degrees and jobs explicitly aimed at getting and holding your attention. If there were not people who, because of mental disorders (or just being young) become addicted more easily than average.
It's a war for your attention, and your phone is their primary gateway to your attention.
Don't blame the victim when there's a multi-billion dollar market that hinges on victimizing people by getting - and keeping - their attention.
- throw10920 4y agoI spend far more time scrolling HN than I do on social media or on my phone. I have an HN problem, and no social media problem. Yet, HN has zero "engagement engineering" put into it. And why is this? Because chose to start browsing HN, and I chose to not spend time on social media. My addiction is a product of my own choices, and nobody else's. If you can show me that the majority of people addicted to social media and/or their phones were forced to use them, then that's involuntary. Otherwise, by definition, they voluntarily decided to use whatever social media app they're captured by.