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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by madeofpalk on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:39PM (#14465570)
> It's great for all the obvious reasons (less timesuck, less compulsion to endlessly scroll your life away, no notification interruptions).

You're not able to exercise self control? I have Facebook, but I never use it apart from the events and Messenger for chatting with certain friends.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by maksimum on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:50PM (#14465646)
> You're not able to exercise self control?

Ability to exercise self-control most likely varies significantly among people. It's not like the ability to breath. Also Facebook is explicitly designed to "engage" people, meaning that a piece of information shared on Facebook is going to engage a larger fraction of people than that same piece of information in ... a newspaper (for example). Engagement/attention hacking is a different issue than the walled-garden issue for the most part though.

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