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by civilian 3062 days ago
On the plus side, Netflix is saving children from hundreds of hours of commercials a year!

Snapchat does add the metric of conversation streaks, but _that isnt the point_ and it's honestly not enough to keep me using it. I like snapchat cuz I like seeing people's faces or the random things that they are seeing.

This is a stupid initiative.
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rbongers 3062 days ago
I think it's great that you don't find that Snapchat impacts your life negatively, and you're probably in good company. For many people this isn't the case.

All we have is our life. Some people feel that they waste theirs on platforms like Snapchat and they're powerless to stop. I don't think that for those people this initiative is stupid.

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civilian 3061 days ago
"People can't help themselves" lacks so much persuasion. You'd be at home in puritan Massachusetts, where all fun is banned.
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rbongers 3061 days ago
"People can't help themselves" is natural.

The fact that there is a gap between who people want to be and the choices they make is not a disputed fact.

Without it, we would have no concept of shame, motivation, or self improvement.

Further, it's not disputed that companies have now been studying and exploiting the mechanisms of human behavioural triggers for the better part of a century now (just look into the history of advertising strategies).

Outright banning is not what I would want, and I would hope that it isn't what anyone would want. It's about giving MORE people the freedom to use software how they want. Options to control their use of software should they need it. Education for children on these exploitation techniques in order to protect them from it. Not banning anything.

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