Re:Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on mone...
by taauji on Friday May 05, 2023 @12:37AM
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Facebook is founded on 3 pillars of unethicalities.
1. Data Privacy - They will try to find every possible way to sell your data and not get noticed.
2. Depleting Mental Health - They will try to find every possible way to keep you engaged on the platform. That is often done by algorithmically promoting content that inspires extreme emotions in you. Emotions such as anger, jealousy, lust etc. That is not healthy for maintaining a good emotional balance.
3. Fake News - They will try to find every possible way to shrug off responsibility for spreading fake news. This affects politics by creating echo chambers, healthcare by preventing people from believing in the correct diagnostics and other areas.
I agree that nobody is stopping you from opening facebook, but facebook is like smoking. Everyone only wants to try it once, and then many fall into the downward spiral.
I was reading somewhere that how resisting facebook and all of facebook products everyday is not possible with the will power reserves that an average human has.
This is because he is competing with psychologists and researchers employed by facebook who have been studying human behaviour for years.
I do not have any sources to back my claims. Social Media has personally affected me a lot so I keep reading about the phenomena out of curiosity.
Here's one little article that breifly describes what I am talking about.
https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peop...
1. Data Privacy - They will try to find every possible way to sell your data and not get noticed.
2. Depleting Mental Health - They will try to find every possible way to keep you engaged on the platform. That is often done by algorithmically promoting content that inspires extreme emotions in you. Emotions such as anger, jealousy, lust etc. That is not healthy for maintaining a good emotional balance.
3. Fake News - They will try to find every possible way to shrug off responsibility for spreading fake news. This affects politics by creating echo chambers, healthcare by preventing people from believing in the correct diagnostics and other areas.
I agree that nobody is stopping you from opening facebook, but facebook is like smoking. Everyone only wants to try it once, and then many fall into the downward spiral.
I was reading somewhere that how resisting facebook and all of facebook products everyday is not possible with the will power reserves that an average human has. This is because he is competing with psychologists and researchers employed by facebook who have been studying human behaviour for years.
I do not have any sources to back my claims. Social Media has personally affected me a lot so I keep reading about the phenomena out of curiosity. Here's one little article that breifly describes what I am talking about. https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peop...