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The Facebook founders purposefully created something addictive, the social network's first president told Axios in an interview.
“God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains,” Sean Parker said in the interview published Thursday.
With each like and comment, Facebook is “exploiting” human psychology on purpose to keep users hooked on a “social-validation feedback loop,” Parker said, adding that it is “exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with.”
According to Axios, Parker joked that Zuckerberg would block him on Facebook after reading what he said in the interview
The founder might be right. Facebook by no fault by owners seems to often be a Fakebook!
Many times I have seen nice and beautiful pictures of people I know. But when I meet with the same people the beautiful pics didn't resemble their feelings or experience they had during the time frame the pictures were posted.
It's a make up world to show others how they want to be
I have three children, and I know what social media they and their friends use, and it is not Facebook. They think Facebook is for old people. So while those words may ring true for Instagram and Snapchat, Facebook is irrelevant when it comes to children.
Yep. Neither my daughter or her friends use Facebook. If I was a kid or a teen, I wouldn't either. I wouldn't want all the parents to be able to see what I was doing.
I think social media is going to be one of those things that people 20-30yrs in the future will be asking why people were so crazy to get involved in, just like we do in regards to some goofy stuff people decades ago, how could they not have seen the dangers?
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The Facebook founders purposefully created something addictive, the social network's first president told Axios in an interview.
“God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains,” Sean Parker said in the interview published Thursday.
With each like and comment, Facebook is “exploiting” human psychology on purpose to keep users hooked on a “social-validation feedback loop,” Parker said, adding that it is “exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with.”
According to Axios, Parker joked that Zuckerberg would block him on Facebook after reading what he said in the interview
Thats exactly right. And like anything sold or marketed, it's explicit purpose is to get you to use it. Facebook is addictive to millions of people, and it's sad but it's completely true. I'm not sure that was their designed purpose, but why wouldn't it be?
Americans need to wake up before it's too late. We (not I) are too busy counting our likes on Facebook instead of watching the news and standing in line to vote. (If you get your news from Facebook you don't know much about anything)
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