The internet is addictive. It was designed to be.
“The internet is addictive. It was designed to be.”
The “pre-internet” was designed to be a computer network capable of surviving a nuclear war.
The internet as we know it was designed to be a big ass database filled with lots of information that anyone can use and/or augment.
Social media is whats designed to be addictive. It’s a great idea, but it’s *so* easy to exploit users. I like the idea of having a piece of cake, easy to use personal space where I can stay in touch with people I’ve encountered from all over the world. I’d actually pay for Facebook if the price was reasonable and they weren’t using me as marketing fodder.
I have nothing to hide when it comes to my silly web activities ... anything I do online isn’t anything I’d hide in real life, but man it’s frigging disgusting that they’re into tracking where users go to “fine tune advertisements”.
My teen children and their friends all regard Facebook as “for old people”; if that perception is widespread, and this spying stuff stays in the news long enough, they have serious problems. They’ll become the new “MySpace”...