Warped

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Facebook’s Weird Ways

“It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains. . . . [Facebook] literally changes your relationship with society, with each other.”

 

“The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about, ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’” 

 

—Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook, on what the social media site does to us, Daily Beast, Nov. 9, 2017.

• Editorial Comment: More like, “How can we ruin the human experience?”

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