How the developers of the Social media and other sites like Google exploit vulnerability in the Human Psychology?
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social giant Facebook has been criticized by many, and attacked by one of its founding members for "exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology" and putting children's mental health at risk.
Sean Parker is Facebook's former president who joined the company in its first months, worried that Facebook interferes with productivity in weird ways. Parker said that Facebook's founders intentionally built the site to consume as much human attention as possible.
Facebook was built when its founders were young, and regarded to be not yet matured enough to think about the results.
"All of us are jacked into this system," he said. "All of our minds can be hijacked. Our choices are not as free as we think they are."
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Facebook’s founders knew they were creating something addictive that exploited “a vulnerability in human psychology” from the outset, according to the company’s founding president Sean Parker.
Facebook’s founders knew they were creating something addictive that exploited “a vulnerability in human psychology” from the outset, according to the company’s founding president Sean Parker.Parker, whose stake in Facebook made him a billionaire, criticized the social networking giant at an Axios event in Philadelphia this week. Now the founder and chair of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Parker was there to speak about advances in cancer therapies. However, he took the time to provide some insight into the early thinking at Facebook at a time when social media companies face intense scrutiny from lawmakers over their power and influence.
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