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Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by ygkkojr6 on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:44AM (#19075045)
It's incredible how condescending people here are. Since you see no value in Facebook, those who use it a lot must be uneducated barbarians who are not willing to spend their time on [thing you enjoy]
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Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by mruts on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:48AM (#19075540)
Economists talk about “revealed preference,” that is, people enjoy the things that they do. But I don’t think that’s actually true. FB, like drugs, short-circuits your brain and just because your reward system is hacked and you spend all day doing it doesn’t mean you actually are getting real value from it.
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Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by njarboe on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:26AM (#19077596)
Like people retired people who will spend all day and most of their disposable income sitting in front of a slot machine pushing a button. I imagine that is not what most of them wish they were doing with their lives.
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