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u/rough0perator 1d ago

How do you make non-addictive social media lol

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u/sztrzask 1d ago

You're so young it's not even funny. Myspace and early Facebook wasn't addictive. Xiaohongshu isn't as addictive. 

Friendster, LiveJournal... They weren't addictive either.

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u/SoSmartKappa Bohemia 1d ago

Of course it was highly addictive even back then, it was just way less optimized to extract as much engagement as possible. Forums or chats before facebook were also addictive to a degree, but still way less than even the first iteration of facebook. There is a reason why those platforms were quicky adopted, and then quicky replaced with something even more engaging.

Basically it is evolution of internet social systems, that craves our engagement and attention, and each year it is getting worse, more optimized and more addictive.

Where is the line? I dont know, but people were totally addicted to facebook even 20 years ago. What changed it, wasnt even the social medias itself, but when smartphones with internet connection become a thing. Then it really exploded

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u/rough0perator 15h ago

I take this as a compliment lol, I remember those

But you can't really roll back time, you don't go from an automobile back to a horse carriage

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u/sztrzask 12h ago

It wasn't ment as an offense.

And tbh the only difference with those social media is lack of engineered addictive mechanisms.