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Replying to @sehurlburt
I think one of the things which generates both the most engagement and the most harm from social media is the user behavior of reading genuine minute-to-minute relationship status-impacting implications into the stream of events issued mostly without deep consideration.
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Replying to @patio11 @sehurlburt
There's a fundamental imbalance in how the apps work, where some user A is taught to be very, very emotionally invested in what B does to A on the app, and where B is taught to push buttons affecting A, C, D, E, F as frequently as possible.
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And it's difficult to talk about this or to assist people in self-modifying to avoid harming their interests. "A product is pushing you down a suboptimality gradient to sell more advertising" is hard enough to say, and many will hear "The way you are wired socially is *wrong.*"
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