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Re:Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive... by bojo on Thursday September 24, 2020 @12:52PM (#24580681)
TV shows have a definitive end, cliffhanger or otherwise, infinite scrolling through Facebook does not.
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Re:Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive... by nradov on Thursday September 24, 2020 @12:58PM (#24580759)
The General Hospital soap opera TV show has been running for 57 years. Facebook was only launched 16 years ago.
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Re:Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive... by floren on Thursday September 24, 2020 @02:25PM (#24581798)
And when it's done for the day, it's done. You can't turn on your TV every 7 minutes to check for new General Hospital, and even if you binged 57 years of episodes, you would in time exhaust the content.
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Re:Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive... by ALittleLight on Thursday September 24, 2020 @03:09PM (#24582349)
That's true if you think about being addicted to a specific TV show. If you think about being addicted to TV in general it's not true. More than 1 hour of television content is produced every hour (I assume).
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