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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by thundergolfer on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:27PM (#26162290)
Neil Postman’s argument about the “now this” incoherence of television also applies doubly to today’s tech like TikTok and Reddit.

If TV was generally bad (as Postman argues) then video-based social media is awful, and worse than Postman ever predicted.

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