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by wolverine876 860 days ago
I don't find that unusual at all. Doesn't that explain most social media - it's engineered for that excitement. Doesn't that explain HN?

It's not just middle schoolers. Our primate ancestors love to socialize; we've been doing it for seven million years. That's what social media sells. It's certainly not utilitarianism!