Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook
by disgruntledphd2 on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:18AM
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Or even nicotine?
I can tell you that getting off social networks was a hell of a lot easier than getting off nicotine (i still haven't succeeded with the latter, to be honest).
Like, the hyperbole associated with social networks just astounds me. They are just websites. They have been carefully engineered to be addictive, like many other services, but there's nobody at Facebook coming round to people's houses and forcing them to open the app.
I actually think that social media is addictive because people like talking to other people, and these tools facilitate this.
Is HN addictive? Is it more like heroin than the NYT?
I can tell you that getting off social networks was a hell of a lot easier than getting off nicotine (i still haven't succeeded with the latter, to be honest).
Like, the hyperbole associated with social networks just astounds me. They are just websites. They have been carefully engineered to be addictive, like many other services, but there's nobody at Facebook coming round to people's houses and forcing them to open the app.
I actually think that social media is addictive because people like talking to other people, and these tools facilitate this.
Is HN addictive? Is it more like heroin than the NYT?