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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by fjsolwmv on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:44PM (#18333056)
Do you have a source for that extraordinary claim that Facebook was designed from the outset to make people unhappy, and that people use Facebook more when they are made unhappy?
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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by colllectorof on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:20PM (#18333250)
Nothing extraordinary about it. I don't know whether Facebook was deliberately designed to make people unhappy, but it does:

https://www.upmc.com/media/news/lin-primack-sm-depression

"Social Media Use Associated With Depression Among U.S. Young Adults"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477910/

"There is increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behavior. "

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