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Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by jacobgkau on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:39PM (#42706335)
These days, it also serves to encourage people to build worldviews around fictional scenarios much the same as social media encourages building worldviews around fictional information.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by hsbauauvhabzb on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @05:12AM (#42709286)
Implying it wasn’t always that way?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by jacobgkau on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:43PM (#42714294)
As you said, the psychology of marketing and retention is far more widespread today than it was when TV was invented. Would you agree news stations today report differently than they did 50 years ago? That's a very obvious transition. The transition of how fictional programming has changed is less obvious, but still there-- and the amount people watch (and allow it to shape their personalities) has changed, too.
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