Facebook Addiction Shows Up in Brain Scans Similar to Drug Addiction
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Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook who joined Mark Zuckerberg’s company in its first months, said the company’s founders intentionally built the site to consume as much human attention as possible.
Facebook Changes Your Relationship with Society
Parker, who has made billions as an early shareholder in the social network, also criticized Facebook’s effect on children. “It literally changes your relationship with society, with each other,” he told newsite Axios. “It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”
Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook, was found to have to have the worst impact on young people’s self esteem, negatively impacting people’s body image, sleep and fear of missing out. Read the full story…. telegraph.co.uk
Former Facebook president warns of social media addiction
- Sean Parker, 38, claims social media sites like Facebook are “exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology” and said social media pioneers like himself “understood this consciously and we did it anyway.”
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Facebook Is Addictive Because It ‘Exploits a Vulnerability’ in People’s Brains, Co-Founder Sean Parker Says – Newsweek Hindsight is 20/20 for Sean Parker, a former Facebook president who said this week that the social media site was built to exploit “a vulnerability in human psychology”—one that investigators believe Russia also manipulated as it was meddling in the …
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