[upupandup]

im afraid this short attention optimized dopamine manipulation system is going to be deterimental for our collective mental and cognitive capacity, especially with covid.

in particular im fearful of the impact on young developing minds, this is literally setting them up for failure or maybe this is the end goal?

[strikelaserclaw]

I am on a crusade to regulate my wife's instagram usage and will pretty much ban social media for my children (or at-least heavily regulate it). My wife agrees that she is much happier on the aggregate when she uses instagram less. Having worked in industries close to social media, the people here have no qualms about doing anything possible to increase revenue, whats worse is how smart some of the people are.

[arwineap]

> whats worse is how smart some of the people are

Smart people can use instagram, I'm not sure what you're getting at.

[Jensson]

That sentence referred to the people working at Instagram, not the people using Instagram. The poster meant that it is sad that smart people spend so much time and energy trying to get people addicted to these things.

[strikelaserclaw]

i meant more like those who are doing whatever to increase revenue for their companies not actual users themselves.

[tboyd47]

It already has. The ultimate expression of this dopamine mill is on-demand porn, and that's already run its course addicting practically the entire population and giving them sexual dysfunction. Social media is like "porn lite."