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by vis52 2948 days ago
What Sean Parker says about the whole thing:

He explained that when Facebook was being developed the objective was: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” It was this mindset that led to the creation of features such as the “like” button that would give users “a little dopamine hit” to encourage them to upload more content.

“It’s a social-validation feedback loop … exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”

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"We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet." - Justin Timberlake
I'm nitpicking a bit, but unless you know that was actually written by JT, I think you should attribute it to The Social Network movie, not to JT.
People attribute the "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want..." line from "Taken" to Liam Neeson. I'm sorry, but it's a character played by Liam Neeson who said that!

Seems reality and fiction is getting more and more mixed up... especially if you have Ted or Deadpool showing up to talk shows (then again, this isn't a new thing is it, Bugs Bunny showed up on a talk show in the 1990's).

I just thought it would be funny to put Timberlake on the quote since Sean Parker never said it and it's less fun to credit Sorkin.