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jeremylylebrown

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jeremylylebrown··on Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens
But when will they learn? What if it's too late for them to claim their attention span back, as they go down the spiral of useless junk/social media? And what about the people who never learn - is it their fault? I suppose if kids/people learn to treat personalized (and well-timed) social media invitations like I treat 3/4ths of the emails I receive, it's not terrible, just more of the same, but at worst, those individuals most vulnerable to distraction/suggestion will end up even more distracted and hustled out of their money.

I understand that it's up to people to be their own judge, but people en masse are vulnerable to all this marketing stuff. This in particular just seems somewhat more invasive.

jeremylylebrown··on Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens
How do kids have a shot at a non-fragmented attention span when companies target them like this? I'm not suggesting this is anything new in marketing, but having social media app 1 feed into social media app 2 feed into etc... I fear it's harmful to society on a whole in the long run.
jeremylylebrown··on Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak
What sort of R&D needs to be accomplished for blockchain to hit the transformative stage? And how does it lead to web 3.0?