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Right. Let's do the same for drugs. Irony aside, these platforms are addictive and polarizing by design. I doubt a little test will change anything.
by tilolebo 2y ago
Right. Let's do the same for drugs.
Irony aside, these platforms are addictive and polarizing by design. I doubt a little test will change anything.
- lukan 2y agoYou realize HN here is social media, too?
- probably_wrong 2y agoI would argue that "social media" requires the social aspect, namely, contacts and direct messaging.
- lukan 2y agoEveryone has a profil and everyone who wants to, leaves contact inside the profil.
- TomK32 2y agoWe socialize here, just last month I read someone's comment about life in the Canadian country-side and realized he's the brother of a Youtuber I'm watching for years. The same happens on any other social platform be it in the internet or real life.
- lukan 2y agoYes and I would not demonize it. The problem I see, are networks that are financed mainly by ads - so they have the incentive to keep engagement artifically high and spy as much as possible. But "banning social media" does not ask that question.
- Symbiote 2y agoAnd HN even recognizes it can be addictive to some. See the "noprocrast" setting on your user settings page.
- lukan 2y agoYes? So ban it all, just like drugs?
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- g105b 2y agoYou're being facetious but I genuinely think it's a good idea to normalise drugs. I believe that part of the problem with drugs is that they're considered forbidden, so if you share my viewpoint then it's not too dissimilar to the problems with social media or other addictive-but-bad-for-you products.
- mupuff1234 2y agoOpioids weren't forbidden for those with prescriptions and we all know how that turned out.