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Confessions of Facebook Programmers/FAD Pushers Continue

Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 8:26 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Founding president Sean Parker made news recently by confessing that he and fellow programmers designed Facebook more like an addictive drug than a networking tool. I duly commented in “Zuckerberg Designed Facebook ‘Like’ an Addictive Opioid,” November 13, 2017. But Parker only confirmed what I had been contending for years in commentaries like “Facebook ‘Like’… Read more.

Zuckerberg Designed Facebook ‘Like’ an Opioid

Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

So, with all due respect to Karl Marx, who needs religion when the masses have Facebook…? It turns out that your brain on Facebook is like an egg in a frying pan. This, in effect, is what none other than Facebook founding president Sean Parker has confessed: The unintended consequences [is that] it literally changes… Read more.