Where
it comes from and what to do about it:
The Facebook social networking website is designed to prey on
a psychological “vulnerability,” the company’s former president recently
warned.
Speaking
at an Axios event Wednesday, Facebook’s first president, Sean
Parker, said the app used by over two billion people around the world takes
advantage of human psychology and the need for social-validation, and is
possibly re-wiring human brains.
“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?'” Parker said.
The billionaire also
revealed the company proceeded with their exploitation of the human mind
despite signs the website altered one’s “relationship with society,” and could
be negatively affecting children.
. . .
While Facebook
developers and creators, including company CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were aware of
the website’s potential to essentially control one’s mind, Parker says they did
nothing to change it.
“The inventors,
creators — it’s me, it’s Mark [Zuckerberg], it’s Kevin Systrom on Instagram,
it’s all of these people — understood this consciously. And we did it anyway.”
. . .
Source: Adan Salazar, https://www.prisonplanet.com/ex-facebook-president-warns-app-exploits-psychological-vulnerability.html,
opened 9 Nov. 2017
(Thanks
to C for the video.)
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Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
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