Re:How Social Media is Built for Addiction
by 659087 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:31PM
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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.
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.