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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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