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Re:Facebook is an addiction treadmill most may never be able... by darepublic on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:12AM (#28783181)
I liked your first post but this is like saying a person who tells you not to go out and see the world because you've got everything you need on the compound is better than someone who tells you to experience new places and people. The former clearly has some shades of exploitive manipulation trying to foster dependence / imprisonment
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Re:Facebook is an addiction treadmill most may never be able... by khazhoux on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:23PM (#28790951)
I think what I'm saying in the two comments is consistent, though.

The average HN reader passes judgement on Facebookers (myself included), meanwhile we waste time on sites we're convinced are "better"... but often it's just a tradeoff. HN: external links to thoughtful and informative articles, apolitical, but very impersonal and humorless. FB: insular, but (in theory) you know people, and maintain your relationships with people you don't see in person.

I don't mean to say "both are the same" -- that would be too facile. But, I don't think one or the other is clearly superior in any absolute sense.

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