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A comment on Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups.

Re:Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction S... by SiempreViernes on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:43AM (#17118287)
> “I reached out to Laurie to see how I could help,” Calvert responded when I reached out to her.

Man, what's with this fascination with "reaching out"? Here we a sales person targeting victims of addiction for a sales pitch terming it "reaching out", setting up some pretty negative associations of that phrase. Yet the journalist is so conditioned they use the very same words for the process of requesting a comment from one of villains of the story!

I guess it's just poor editing, but the blindness is still remarkable!

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Re:Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction S... by bmans94 on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:57AM (#17118377)
You could spin it even more, calling it an “outreach program”! Yeah, that term has come to be industry standard for “I want something from you, so I am going to now insert myself into your life until I manipulate you into giving it to me”.
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