[cute_boi]

Facebook is addictive tbh. I heard they hired some prominent psychologist to make it more addictive.

My mother is surely addicted to facebook. She knows all data implications but she enjoys getting likes/shares etc. And fake news etc which is intentionally specious make the platform even more enjoyable.

I can't tell her to stop facebook and I am sure it is harming her right?

Yes this is government role but as with every government in democracy most of them are vested for short term profits and company like facebook lobbies a lot. We know facebook pushes millions of dollar in lobby so why would government solve it? Also facebook also provides sweet taxes to government.

[to1y]

>I heard they hired some prominent psychologist to make it more addictive.

This is basically what the argument to ban it amounts to whenever this discussion comes up.

Facebook is a simple site, there's nothing to it really. It's just an endless mediocre content website that happens to have your friends on it.

Good user experience = "designed to be addictive by army of ill-wishing psychologists."

The only reason id like to see it banned just so something better can finally take it's place

[mavhc]

Humans enjoy being liked, what specific harm does your mother experience from using facebook?

Better to be addicted to typing words than drugs, it's free and you don't die.