Former Facebook president Sean Parker: 'God knows what it's doing to our children

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Facebook has been attacked by one of its founding members for "exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology" and putting children's mental health at risk.

Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook who joined Mark Zuckerberg'scompany in its first months, said the company's founders intentionally built the site to consume as much human attention as possible.

Parker, who has made billions as an early shareholder in the social network, also criticised 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."

"The inventors, creators... understood this consciously. And we did it anyway," Parker said. Parker, a former hacker who founded file-sharing website Napster, said he had become a "conscientious objector" to the social networking site. His stint at Facebook was shortlived, resigning from the site in 2005 after a cocaine scandal.
 
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With TV , it's usually some fictional or comedy show...maybe a good movie or documentary. Back then all we could catch was a few hours at night after school. Now kids are engulfed in this dysfunctional anti-social tech world from the moment they wake up, all day at school and then into the night.

This "anti"social media stuff has been systemically obliterating kids' social skills. If I'm out in a shopping center or grocery store all I see are kids walking around with their heads down pushing buttons. Most haven't the desire or ability to look another person in the eyes and actually communicate thoughts with grammatically correct coherent sentences. In restaurants, they're buried in their phones instead engaging in discussions with their family at the table. Everything has to be instant. They hold their phones in their hands instead of sticking them in their pockets or purses. They emotionally NEED to have instant responses from those they've texted or tweeted. Their expressionless faces only respond to the sight of a message typed to them from a silent, faceless communicator.

Many of their "friends" are those they have never even met physically. So, they're not learning how to read body language, intent or sincerity. In the real world they become frustrated and very easily angered when anybody challenges their thoughts or opinions because they're used to simply shutting down any thoughts contrary to their own. "Unfriending" them I think is the term. Most become filled with rage when someone tries to engage them with a civilized debate. The the idea of "win some, lose some" is lost on them. Some kids who are deep into this withdraw completely and become depressed to the point of suicide.

It's the parents who have to rip these things out of their hands and force them to engage in reality.
 
Stretch said:
With TV , it's usually some fictional or comedy show...maybe a good movie or documentary. Back then all we could catch was a few hours at night after school. Now kids are engulfed in this dysfunctional anti-social tech world from the moment they wake up, all day at school and then into the night.

This "anti"social media stuff has been systemically obliterating kids' social skills. If I'm out in a shopping center or grocery store all I see are kids walking around with their heads down pushing buttons. Most haven't the desire or ability to look another person in the eyes and actually communicate thoughts with grammatically correct coherent sentences. In restaurants, they're buried in their phones instead engaging in discussions with their family at the table. Everything has to be instant. They hold their phones in their hands instead of sticking them in their pockets or purses. They emotionally NEED to have instant responses from those they've texted or tweeted. Their expressionless faces only respond to the sight of a message typed to them from a silent, faceless communicator.

Many of their "friends" are those they have never even met physically. So, they're not learning how to read body language, intent or sincerity. In the real world they become frustrated and very easily angered when anybody challenges their thoughts or opinions because they're used to simply shutting down any thoughts contrary to their own. "Unfriending" them I think is the term. Most become filled with rage when someone tries to engage them with a civilized debate. The the idea of "win some, lose some" is lost on them. Some kids who are deep into this withdraw completely and become depressed to the point of suicide.

It's the parents who have to rip these things out of their hands and force them to engage in reality.
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It's much more than that though, many millenials get their news from social media.

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Considering the crap WAPO and NYTimes puts out as news( heavily skewed to the left, and anti-Trump)
I don't see social media as all that bad, in that the US media purveyors cloak themselves behind the wall of impartial info
 
noise said:
Considering the crap WAPO and NYTimes puts out as news( heavily skewed to the left, and anti-Trump)
I don't see social media as all that bad, in that the US media purveyors cloak themselves behind the wall of impartial info
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So just wait until they kill off conventional media and they control the flow of news.

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Corazón said:
So just wait until they kill off conventional media and they control the flow of news.
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That ship has sailed.

Fun fact: recently-arrested anti-Trump Saudi prince owns more shares in Twitter than founder Jack Demspey.

_ObFA8GJ



https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/
 
Stretch said:
With TV , it's usually some fictional or comedy show...maybe a good movie or documentary. Back then all we could catch was a few hours at night after school. Now kids are engulfed in this dysfunctional anti-social tech world from the moment they wake up, all day at school and then into the night.

This "anti"social media stuff has been systemically obliterating kids' social skills. If I'm out in a shopping center or grocery store all I see are kids walking around with their heads down pushing buttons. Most haven't the desire or ability to look another person in the eyes and actually communicate thoughts with grammatically correct coherent sentences. In restaurants, they're buried in their phones instead engaging in discussions with their family at the table. Everything has to be instant. They hold their phones in their hands instead of sticking them in their pockets or purses. They emotionally NEED to have instant responses from those they've texted or tweeted. Their expressionless faces only respond to the sight of a message typed to them from a silent, faceless communicator.

Many of their "friends" are those they have never even met physically. So, they're not learning how to read body language, intent or sincerity. In the real world they become frustrated and very easily angered when anybody challenges their thoughts or opinions because they're used to simply shutting down any thoughts contrary to their own. "Unfriending" them I think is the term. Most become filled with rage when someone tries to engage them with a civilized debate. The the idea of "win some, lose some" is lost on them. Some kids who are deep into this withdraw completely and become depressed to the point of suicide.

It's the parents who have to rip these things out of their hands and force them to engage in reality.
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I remember when they said the same thing about television. Moderation is the key.
 
Compost said:
I remember when they said the same thing about television. Moderation is the key.
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Right.

You want to limit people's access to information?

Good luck.

The FCC is looking at breaking up the stranglehold that huge corporations like Google and the major ISPs have on internet access in the US. I hope they succeed.

Government in a free society has no place picking winners and losers when it comes to media access.

The so-called "Fairness Doctrine" and the disingenuously named "Net Neutrality" are pernicious and must never be allowed to succeed.

The Internet, including services and systems that provides access to the Internet, should be unfettered by federal or State regulation.
 
Corazón said:
So just wait until they kill off conventional media and they control the flow of news.

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no great loss.
when the media is a biased machine that does "advocacy journalism" ( NYTimes editorial) what is there to mourn?
 
noise said:
no great loss.
when the media is a biased machine that does "advocacy journalism" ( NYTimes editorial) what is there to mourn?
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That old expression you don't know what you've got until it's gone applies very well here. Do you seriously think that Facebook, Amazon or Google will do any investigative journalism?

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