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Re:Social media encourages us to follow those we envy by jMyles on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @12:28PM (#10705124)
> Social media doesn't cause people to envy others or engage in behaviors that you don't approve of. Human nature does.

That's precisely what's in dispute here.

Different social media applications yield different results. Some of us believe that facebook is designed to cause envy, woe, and want in order to sell.

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Re:Social media encourages us to follow those we envy by ArkyBeagle on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:10PM (#10705503)
If it succeeds, none dare call it treason.

The thing about Usenet is that it trained you how to discuss things in public. It is a rhetoric laboratory. It's very useful learning to harden yourself to envy, woe and want. Eventually, such things become a mirror and if you don't like what you see, change it.

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Re:Social media encourages us to follow those we envy by jsn117 on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:33PM (#10705709)
yes, but social media is engineered to heighten these human traits, to get people hook using negative emotions
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