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Re:Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less dep... by amylene on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:13PM (#22323414)
This is an interesting comment to me. Your conscious mind says you received no value, when reflecting. Yet your behavior indicated that you got enough value to create a compulsion.

What a funny world we live in, in our heads.

Re:Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less dep... by Barrin92 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:12PM (#22323683)
>your conscious mind says you received no value, when reflecting. Yet your behavior indicated that you got enough value to create a compulsion

well social media is designed to give you little dopamine hits all the time and we all know when we think about it for a second that the constant, cheap stimulation is bad, but it also hijacks our lizard brains and it's designed to work that way.

The big problem I think is that we let the designers of these applications get away with exactly the 'your preferences indicate you like it' line, well the same applies to gamblers in a casino.

Re:Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less dep... by bikeshed on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:34AM (#22324194)
I mean, the same can be said about gambling.