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Re:Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ e... by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:56AM (#14244713)
Sure, people can get addicted to Facebook (I've seen it happen) but people get addicted to many other bad and harmful things.

I'm here neither to attack or defend Facebook, but this is a really crappy way of looking at the world. "People suck anyway, so...."

You could put just about anything after beginning a sentence like that.

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Re:Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ e... by raspasov on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:20AM (#14245071)
I agree. I am very curious about ways to prevent people from getting addicted to harmful things or things that they consciously decide to avoid.

I am not here to attack or defend Facebook either, but I think accusing them of being bad just because people get addicted to it is not a good measure. People get addicted to smartphones also but I rarely see people critical of the smartphone as a device.

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