“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by mywittyname on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:51AM (#26154999)

If anything, the next generation of people will learn to avoid online polarized engagement using their own identities. They will create these curated and sterile personas under their real name while using a nom de plume for actual content.

I'm kind of surprised that aliases have not widely taken off already. But I suppose the consequences are not very severe yet.

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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by iamatworknow on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:29AM (#26155557)

>I'm kind of surprised that aliases have not widely taken off already.

The funny thing is that these aliases already existed, but we've largely eschewed them for our "real" identities. Prior to probably Facebook I think every interaction I had with other people online was behind a screen name detached from my real world identity.

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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by IQunder130 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:58AM (#26165414)

Aliases used to be the default before the social media revolution, though. If anything the trend has been decidedly in the other direction - using one's real name was seen as irresponsible just 15 years ago, whereas now it seems the average internet user is not even aware pseudonymity is an option.

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