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by carabiner 1311 days ago
The funny thing is in our recent thread about stuff you've built that you regret, only one FB employee admitted so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33676995

Social media and its consequences (adtech) have been a disaster for the human race. We're still largely oblivious to it though, and mostly see the benefits. Similar to smoking and before that, fossil fuels, we just see it as something that improves our lives at little cost. In 50 years we will wonder how we were so naive.