Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by creato on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:04AM (#19396731)

Most of my friends that still smoke will straight up tell you the only reason they do it is for the social interactions that happen while smoking. I don't think it's that different.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by tathougies on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:10PM (#19401778)

>I don't think it's that different.

Regulating tobacco requires regulating the sale of a substance. Regulating facebook requires regulating speech (that is what advertising and a like button are) that happens to incite an emotional response. I'm very uncomfortable with regulating that.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by spunker540 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:06AM (#19408172)

I hear most people only attend book clubs for social reasons too — are book clubs also as bad as tobacco companies?

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by a012 on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:55AM (#19396941)

Except smoke kills you

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by andrei_says_ on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:18AM (#19397026)

And addiction to Facebook causes depression and robs you of your abilityvto focus. Both measured and proven.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by lmm on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:58AM (#19398176)

I don't believe you. What you say doesn't match my experience, and the few studies I've seen on the topic have been very low-quality.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by aylmao on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:08AM (#19397621)

Wouldn't any addiction do this? I think the better argument to make would be that Facebook is addictive.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by andrei_says_ on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:57PM (#19426211)

Everyone knows it’s addictive. But unlike tobacco and alcohol, it is not regulated and children are exposed to it.

So I guess it’s treated just like sugar.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by mav3rick on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:01AM (#19397883)

So do video games. So does the internet in general. Too much of any thing is almost always bad

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by mrits on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:54AM (#19398472)

Wait until you discover television.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by aylmao on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:07AM (#19397616)

I've heard this about smoking weed, but never tobacco. I guess it's just a cultural thing that varies from place to place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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