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Re:Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what sh... by 1MachineElf on Monday April 12, 2021 @11:47AM (#26780742)
Reminds me of this article that had been submitted a couple times in recent months, "User Engagement" is code for "Addiction" https://medium.com/swlh/user-engagement-is-code-for-addictio...

I hope we can come up with a new phrase that sticks for these. Some good ones have been posted here in the comments. Ideally, an altruistic entity will trademark them.

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Re:Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what sh... by midolzzzz on Monday April 12, 2021 @11:50AM (#26780789)
"User Engagement Networks" Sounds perfectly fine to me. At least there would be an idea of what these apps are trying to accomplish at the expense of the user.
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Re:Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what sh... by mojuba on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:30PM (#26781412)
"User Engagement and Data Collection Networks"
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Re:Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what sh... by bcrl on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:44PM (#26786540)
"Spy networks"
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Re:Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what sh... by worker767424 on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:55PM (#26781819)
This might sound like a nit, but I'd call it habit-forming, not addictive. I watched friends go from obsessed with Facebook when it launched to mostly using it for sharing family photos, and this is at a time when there was a focus on user engagement. It just seems like people lost interest too easily for it to be actual addiction.
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