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"User Engagement" Is Code for "Addiction"

Social media is a civilization-level problem

Craig the Computer Guy
Craig the Computer Guy
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Feb 15 * 6 min read
 
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There is something about social media that human beings are not
psychologically prepared for. It is a perverse and unnatural
abstraction of human social community to which our brain does not
react well. As a facsimile of genuine humanity, it plunges into
something resembling The Uncanny Valley for social interactions...

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