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"IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
- Bombthecat 9mo agoDoubt that very very much
- dietr1ch 9mo agoI could doubt tobacco is a drug cause I don't need it and don't find it interesting, but if I look around beyond just myself it's hard to doubt.
- micik 9mo agoTobacco doesn’t consume time. In an economy, time is an important asset. When people are scrolling, they are neither creating nor consuming (spending money), which makes them inert from the GDP standpoint. It’s an economic blackhole. This is why the government needs to care. If it goes unchecked, it will bring the economy to its knees. No country in the world can afford to have a significant portion of its population burn their time and energy like that.
- dietr1ch 9mo agoAre you sure? Having an excuse for smoke breaks during work seemed to be a really good selling point
- danielheath 9mo agoYou doubt that it's a drug? Or you doubt that internal messages describing IG as a drug are relevant to a lawsuit over social media addiction?
- NoPicklez 9mo agoI think they might doubt that it will doom Meta
- Bombthecat 9mo agoCorrect, Meta won the war, just like loot boxes will keep existing, while proven to be designed to make you addicted. People are just way to optimistic instead of realistic.
- goku12 9mo ago> People are just way to optimistic instead of realistic. Apathetic is a more appropriate description. This is as optimistic as hoping to not contract lung cancer without ever bothering to quit smoking.
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoAll social media is a drug, and I lump Discord in there as Social Media, especially if WhatsApp is social media for many outside of the US.
- netsharc 9mo agoSomehow WhatsApp implemented Snapchat-esque stories, and also channels that broadcast such stories (e.g. I can subscribe to updates from FC Barcelona), because hey, Zuck probably thought "who needs shame, we're going to copy functionaliy in order to destroy the competition".
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoYou mean my "away" autoresponse I set for MSN for an hour or wast it AIM? jokes aside, yeah they all copied it, look at YouTube too.
- JuniperMesos 9mo agoDiscord doesn't fundamentally do anything that IRC didn't do, except work reliably on a smartphone. If that's a drug, then that seems pretty close to saying that any kind of online interaction with other human beings is a drug.
- expedition32 9mo agoThe notification spam on your phone is something that did not exist in the 2000s, no? I remember that with the advent of smartphones suddenly all websites wanted to send status updates...
- JuniperMesos 9mo agoNo, and I would've wanted it for the IRC channels I was in at the time, just as I typically want notifications (that I can enable/disable at will) for some chats I'm in on more modern realtime communication software.
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- ares623 9mo agoJury selection for this should be interesting.
- deaux 9mo agoWhy does Ars pretend that trials have any meaning in the US? Maybe if this lawsuit was taking place elsewhere, sure. Zuck will just follow in Bezos' footsteps, make a movie "Donald Jr", and that'll be it. Of course I know why they pretend, because they too don't really care, and keeping up the facade is better for business.
- mediumsmart 9mo agoI can’t get past the 225 partners that care about my privacy but I’m sure the commercial technical ass site has a point.
- mdavid626 9mo agoSeems like pouring few millions to cover damages will be enough. I don’t expect big changes.
- Seanambers 9mo agoeverything is like that, reddit, X, fb, IG, tiktok. user beware