They’ll say everything and exploit anyone for their numbers.
Such a moral way to run a whole economic philosophy.
Post headline deserves a downvote. Quote from article:
Lanier asked Mosseri what he thought of K.G.M’s longest single day of use of Instagram being 16 hours.
“That sounds like problematic use,” the Instagram boss answered. He did not call it an addiction.
He also didn’t say it was a tomato. Like wtf do you want, I can’t tell if he was asked specifically if 16 hours a day was an addiction. The prior question was about whether he had known she had a 16hr day, and he had not. (He should have; poor trial prep.)
This is sensationalist BS and I dearly want this platform to be better than that.
Just so we’re clear, Meta can die in a fire and the world would be better off, I’m not defending them in the slightest.
The entire line of questioning was about addiction and the CEO was pretending it wasn’t (he didn’t want up admit the truth because his company would be liable). The headline was accurate and your take is officially a hot one.
The post accurately copies the article’s headline without editorialising.
The article itself is shit though.
All CEOs of the big ones are sociopaths. It’s by design.
You don’t have to be a sociopath to be a CEO, but most CEOs are sociopaths… because sociopathic traits, mostly lack of empathy and zero issue with being horribly manipulative, are traits that tend to be selected for to move up to this level.
He is not qualified to identify what is and isn’t addiction. He is qualified to demonstrate he’s a psychopath.
I’ve known drug dealers more honourable than this.
Guys you heard it here first: You can drink alcohol for 16 hours everyday and it’s not addiction.
Hell yeah
A system that benefits people who lie about objective facts should be destroyed.
If the tactical business decision is to look someone in the face and say “spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours, idly gazing at photos of anything is not an addiction” in order to protect business interests, then things are wrong. Addiction to a product should be met with horror! Oh no, how could this happen? Instead, it’s part of the business model.
“Business” is a blight.
spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours
Even worse: if you get a proper night’s sleep, 16 hours is literally the entire day. Dude is saying if you are getting healthy amounts of sleep, it is perfectly acceptable to spend 100% of your time doom scrolling on their website. No eating, no going to work, no showering.
It’s an absurd statement.
“Its not an addiction, I’m not addicted snorts line off a toilet seat I’M PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL”
This has to be rage bait. I feel like the less time I’m on there, the happier I am. Even the 30 minutes daily limit that I usually set for apps like that is time I’m never getting back.
The only reason I have an account to begin with is because I’m a photographer (even if just a hobbyist) and I like to have some presence in the circles I’m in. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be there at all.
UltraViolence
Why does he look like Steve Carrell playing a sociopathic big tech asshole?
He looks like David Wallace
Punchable face.
You can trust ol empty eyes there. He knows what he is lying.
I dunno. I found it pretty addicting when I was holding both a vape and my phone, and I had doomscrolled for 9 hours till the battery died without having hit my vape once
Of all my active addictions, none take 16 hours to satiate.
