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Re:Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy by domnomnom on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:45AM (#21088800)
It's pretty funny how you imply I'm saying facebook is evil because it makes me feel good - pretty ridiculous statements in light of what I've actually said. I was just saying facebook is a business. It seems you have a lot to prove though. Sorry, I don't buy that "It was solely to see if we could make people feel less self conscious by decreasing social comparison" is the main goal. It seems like a pretty direct way of driving user engagement, seeing as you're literally removing an inhibitor of engagement.
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Re:Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy by authoritarian on Friday September 27, 2019 @09:54AM (#21091994)
>It's pretty funny how you imply I'm saying facebook is evil because it makes me feel good

Yup, I've found its a typical reaction from Facebook employees on this site to attack commenters and rationalize any time negative critiques are brought up, although the extreme defensiveness is pretty telling

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Re:Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy by bredren on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:51PM (#21095091)
This trail reminds me of the "are we the baddies" comedy routine.
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Re:Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy by nindalf on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:55AM (#21089519)
It is difficult to predict how people react with limited information. I think hypothesis for this change was "well being might improve but we're not sure" and at the same time "engagement might drop because there might be folks out there who enjoy collecting likes and this makes it less fun but we're not sure". And it's hard to tell what the results will look like based purely on speculation.

I don't know what makes you certain you know the answers even though you've looked at none of the data. Do you have some other sources?

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Re:Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy by domnomnom on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:09PM (#21095292)
I said it SEEMS like a PRETTY direct way of promoting engagement. It really seems like you're trying to misrepresent what I actually said and may main point.
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