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Re:Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive... by yamrzou on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:04PM (#24580826)
Facebook is definitely addictive. It took me more than a year of trials to be able to break the cycle and get off the platform. The thing is, it gets harder over time to take a pause from it.

But now that it has been one month since I last used it, and I noticed that all I did was to replace my Facebook time with Hacker News, I can't but wonder: Does the addiction problem lie with the user, or in the platform? Or is it, more generally, in the way the internet serves us content?

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Re:Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive... by ericd on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:21PM (#24581016)
Well, many times the thing one addicted to is used to try to help manage negative feelings in other areas of life. So maybe it’s time to take stock of that?
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Re:Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive... by mixmastamyk on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:49PM (#24630827)
Similar here, however HN doesn't fill me with dread like FB does.
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