Not just FB, LinkedIn has a similar effect, just on a different demographic.
Do you evidence of that?
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#242Haven't you all read something like this a dozen times since 2011 or 2012? I thought the consensus was already 10 years ago.
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#243The interesting question is whether FB/Meta have continued to expand/promote features while knowing the potential negative effects on mental health they can have.
I'd also be curious to know if there's a subgroup of users whose mental health is improved by use of FB - certainly I'd suggest I had that experience personally, at a particularly low point in my life, having met somebody via FB that helped me through it (which was mutual btw, in fact they had more serious mental health issues than I did).
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"Right, engagement at all cost it is" Ha I actually read this as en rage ment, which I don't think is even a real word.
It has become a real word by now. Culture changes, language adapts.
Since about 1840 it seems: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Enragement&yea...
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My father in law, who suffers from parkinson's calls me several times a day to leave me voice mails about how terrible the world is and how scared he is about what is coming. If there's a hell I hope there is a special place for 24-hour news channels and folks who feed fear and skewed garbage to people and hurt them. I sometimes wish I could run a 24 hour news channel that tried to do more of a mix of content / etc.…
You'd go out of business. I'm not dismissing malice or opportunism in the media, but it is also important to appreciate the situation mass news media is in. Mass media are extremely dependent on things like advertising and that's always been the case for as long mass media have existed. The price of subscription or buying a paper is simply too meager to cover the costs of running a paper, for example. Advertising int…
The only FTA 24 hour news channel we have in Australia is government funded, no advertising. Not sure if its existence helps prevent the proliferation of the sorts of channels that seem to exist in the US, though it hardly has any significant viewer numbers.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you name something that is not damaging to someone? Excessive salt consumption is linked over a million annual deaths worldwide. Even water kills thousands of people per year (drowning). If your rule is "we can't have things that may hurt some people" then you're going to live in a pretty bland world. Gonna be especially tough without water.
> Excessive salt consumption is linked over a million annual deaths worldwide. Even water kills thousands of people per year (drowning) And we have people and organizations that try to reduce the amount of deaths from those things. Raising awareness, passing laws, etc. > If your rule is "we can't have things that may hurt some people" then you're going to live in a pretty bland world. I only asked for clarification o…
> The poster questioned why someone would work at Facebook.
I thought my answer was pretty easy to interpret, but I will spell it out: Because the vast majority of people who use Facebook enrich their lives with it.
Spelling it out even further: Just like Facebook employees, the people who work in salt mines, or build swimming pools, go to work each day because they think about the vast majority of people satisfied by their product, not about the small minority of people injured by it.
I don't work at Facebook, but if I did, the answer to "How do you sleep?" would be "Like a baby."
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Why stop there? Why not Fr. Coughlin or William Jennings Bryan?
Why stop there Girolamo Savonarola was doing it in the 15th century, or Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.
How do the Gracchi fit in here? They were certainly populist, but decidedly not socially conservative.
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#248I wonder how people continue to work at Facebook. I know they tend to have the highest salaries from the FAANG groups, but still. We, as engineers and builders, have the responsibility to think critically about how the things we are working on will be used.
Not sure if you’re asking seriously but I guess I was one of them so I’ll provide a serious answer: I never agreed with HN’s hate and always believed (and still believe now) that fb is a net positive for the world.
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I'm not really able to wrap my head around your argument. If it's damaging to some percentage of users, having more users means it damages more people. Is your argument that this is okay because some people also put their health at risk being salt miners?
Can you name something that is not damaging to someone? Excessive salt consumption is linked over a million annual deaths worldwide. Even water kills thousands of people per year (drowning). If your rule is "we can't have things that may hurt some people" then you're going to live in a pretty bland world. Gonna be especially tough without water.
> Can you name something that is not damaging to someone?
Kind of a bad excuse to be honest. I do think the damage is exaggerated and at some point users are responsible for themselves and their media consumption and many are probably happy with that.
I don't use Facebook and in my county Whatsapp is sadly very widely spread and it is noticeable that people express concern about missing something if they don't install it.