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Re:How Social Media is Built for Addiction by meagher on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:39PM (#14419181)
This seems especially devious if it's true. (I seriously doubt it is.)
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Re:How Social Media is Built for Addiction by 659087 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:31PM (#14419509)
What makes you doubt it?

We know these companies have people working to exploit psychological quirks/flaws to increase engagement. We also know that ethical concerns are somewhere below the bottom of the list of considerations when creating/implementing new "features".

Given the things we know, I'd be more surprised if this wasn't true.

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Re:How Social Media is Built for Addiction by quadrangle on Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:15PM (#14420196)
Oh the cute naivete of your innocent optimistic doubts…

This sort of thing is well-known, so doubting this particular case is not a well-founded doubt.

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Re:How Social Media is Built for Addiction by blauditore on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:17PM (#14420593)
How is this "well-known"? Do you have a source?
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Re:How Social Media is Built for Addiction by quadrangle on Monday May 29, 2017 @07:46PM (#14442132)
I don't mean this exact case, I mean stuff like intentional slowing down of results. People don't trust results that come too quickly. We like to feel that the computer worked hard for it. E.g. Airline prices or TurboTax results.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/why-s...

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