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Facebook really has few reasons to be around anymore outside the fact that it has a lot of users.
Fast food serves a lot of purposes though. It's not healthy, but it feeds people, it's cheap and it lets you spend your time on something else. Facebook really has few reasons to be around anymore outside the fact that it has a lot of users.
Fast food serves a lot of purposes though. It's not healthy, but it feeds people, it's cheap and it lets you spend your time on something else. Facebook really has few reasons to be around anymore outside the fact that it has a lot of users.
Fast food serves a lot of purposes though. It's not healthy, but it feeds people, it's cheap and it lets you spend your time on something else. Facebook really has few reasons to be around anymore outside the fact that it has a lot of users.
Yes, Facebook is the "bread and circus" of the modern world. Plus, it's a dream come true for intelligence agencies, as people build their own dossiers and then make them public (or keep them within Facebook, which is pretty much the same to the intelligence agencies).
These anti Facebook and anti social media articles are so ubiquitous on hn now, that is starting to feel like a campaign. All too sudden, there is too many of them.
Interesting article, and I'm usually a fan of Nautilus pieces, but isn't this a bit obvious? Almost like 2017 is getting to be the year it's fashionable to poo poo social media (and Facebook in particular). Haven't used the site since about 2010 'cause the rank smell of the Skinner box made my nose curl from afar. I'm baffled that psych studies have to be referenced for people to see the obvious; and I'm certainly no…
These anti Facebook and anti social media articles are so ubiquitous on hn now, that is starting to feel like a campaign. All too sudden, there is too many of them.
Interesting article, and I'm usually a fan of Nautilus pieces, but isn't this a bit obvious? Almost like 2017 is getting to be the year it's fashionable to poo poo social media (and Facebook in particular). Haven't used the site since about 2010 'cause the rank smell of the Skinner box made my nose curl from afar. I'm baffled that psych studies have to be referenced for people to see the obvious; and I'm certainly no…
It's not obvious. The fact that sugar and refined carbs (pasta/rice/bread) is bad for you is not even obvious to most people.
Did you know oxygen was once a terrible, toxic substance that was "bad for you"? [0]
It still is, to some degree. But cheap sources of energy always win in the end.
My point is that we (as humans) suck at processing some things and appreciating the true timescale of optimization. Our bodies fight old cargo cult wars, an exercise in wanton complexity. Hardly an argument against change.
I suspect the same applies to the "badness" of junk food and social media, except it has accumulated less baggage and hence can steer faster.
modern life #someta