Facebook Founder Confesses

I came across something intriguing while skimming through Rush Limbaugh today.  So I clicked on the reference, and it was very telling.

It is something I have known all along and try to warn people about.  One of the founders of Facebook actually confesses to the diabolical reasons Facebook was started.  He admits that the creators of Facebook consciously knew they were exploiting the vulnerabilities of human psychology.  They were well aware of human psychological weaknesses and deliberately created an application that would consume as much time and conscious attention as possible.

It reminds me of Satan trying to trap people and then laughing at how easy it was. "We'll get you eventually."

We all know Facebook zombies.  They are everywhere.  It's very sad.  All I have to say is, get out while you can.  Take your life back.  If you fell into the Facebook trap, delete your account and don't look back.

I'm thankful I never fell into that trap.  Social media is nothing but a waste of time at the very least and can become a destroyer of human life.

That's my two cents.

Here's the article:

"Sean Parker unloads on Facebook "exploiting" human psychology, Mike Allen, Axios.com, November 9, 2017

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider's look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.

Be smart: Parker's I-was-there account provides priceless perspective in the rising debate about the power and effects of the social networks, which now have scale and reach unknown in human history. He's worried enough that he's sounding the alarm.

Parker, 38, now founder and chair of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, spoke yesterday at an Axios event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, about accelerating cancer innovation. In the green room, Parker mentioned that he has become "something of a conscientious objector" on social media.

By the time he left the stage, he jokingly said Mark Zuckerberg will probably block his account after reading this:

• "When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.' And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.' And then they would say, 'No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.' And I would say, ... 'We'll get you eventually.'"
• "I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's 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?'"
• "And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you ... more likes and comments."
• "It's a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology."
• "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."