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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by wutbrodo on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:01PM (#18311489)
I don't know how useful an epicycle in your model this is. Content creators on Facebook aren't there to make money by driving page views either, and yet I assume you wouldn't say that Facebook is "good", by the standard were discussing.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by bobthepanda on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:37PM (#18311742)
At the same time, SO is hardly optimizing for return visits to SO in the same way that I would assume that Facebook is optimizing their platform for return visits and engagement to Facebook.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by powercf on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:03PM (#18313019)
On the other hand, every time I go to SO to find a solution to problem ${X}, I find very interesting (to me) questions on the right, enticing me to waste time reading them. They are making an effort to keep people on the Stack Exchange sites.
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