Several months ago, one of the early pioneers of Facebook and its first President Sean Parker, voiced his regret regarding helping create…
really good article describing the “validation feedback loop” that keeps people addicted to social media. I recognize this habit within my own usage. According to the article, “the social networking site exploits human psychological vulnerabilities through a validation feedback loop that gets people to constantly post to get even more likes and comments. “It’s exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology,” he said. “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.”