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using Facebook is like junk food: you get instant gratification when you post for likes and comments. It’s quick and easy but has little substance.
BayArea saysThe addiction to FB and Instagram has very little difference to the addiction to Patnet or other forums where we spend hours reading and posting daily. The feelings evoked are nearly identical.
The difference is, Facebook follows your "interests", then trolls you with articles, advertising and news that fits those interests. Patrick doesn't do that. You're free to read a BIG cross section of articles and opinions here. Facebook "programs" your mind based on your history of postings.
Plus, something like 40% of Millennials say they get their daily news from Facebook. Want to guess what Facebook is serving up?
The addiction to FB and Instagram has very little difference to the addiction to Patnet or other forums where we spend hours reading and posting daily.
“The inventors, creators — it's me, it's Mark [Zuckerberg], it's Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it's all of these people — understood this consciously. And we did it anyway." In other words, using Facebook is like junk food: you get instant gratification when you post for likes and comments. It’s quick and easy but has little substance.
Sean Parker, of Napster fame and an early investor in Facebook, says the founders of the social networking site knew they were creating something people would become addicted to, reports Axios. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he said
Parker says that the thought process when building Facebook was to figure out “how do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?”
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/9/16627724/sean-parker-facebook-childrens-brains-feedback-loop
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