From Billionaire Sean Parker:
The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, … was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’
“And that means that we need to sort of give you a dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that’s going to get you to contribute more content, and that’s going to get you more likes and more comments.”
It’s a social-validation feedback loop … This is exactly the kind of thing that hacker like myself would come up with, because it’s exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. the inventors, creators — me, Mark, Kevin Systrom of Instagram, all of these people — we understood this consciously. And we did it anyway
God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.
Any post you click through on (like the YouTube link in this one) ostensibly profits off us per eyeball hour, regardless of instance.
Which is why I really appreciate people that mirror the content in their posts or comments (though I sometimes click through anyway to make sure the content isn’t editorialized).
Yeah, but here there’s no real algorithm. That’s a huge difference, even if you jump into their platform, you just have to jump back before they serve up the next thing
I come straight to the comments where an article is either copy-paste if it’s worth reading, or called out immediately if it’s click bait or raw propaganda.