Oh they do care, just in the wrong way.

In the business world "benchmarking" basically means "let's copy what the successful people do, so that line go up"

In their robotic, amoral view of the world, they see one of the most successful people on the planet (according to their definition of success) constantly spouting obvious lies and being surrounded by sycophants while getting elected twice and grifting billions and facing no punishments. Maybe if the tech CEOs get rich enough and their companies get important enough, they can join his club.

Ohhh, and they must be how we get oligarchies!

This is sensationalist BS and I dearly want this platform to be better than that.

This platform loves sensationalism.
Same with other platforms.

What editing? Didn’t edit either if those posts.

They want to be an integral part of our lives, like thinking, except they'll take the place of thinking, or talking, or even looking around.

The comments I replied to were heavily edited after I replied. You can comment at the bottom with an Edit: and then explain what you changed. Otherwise, it is known as a ninja edit and it is generally frowned upon because it makes the conversations convoluted. Cheers!

"Because like 10hr of that is background usage while we harvest your data."

he repeatedly used technicalities and weaseley language to refuse to admit it

see

Yet, Mosseri repeatedly said he was not an expert in addiction in response to Lanier’s questioning.

Even if a nonexpert claims something is clinical addiction, they're a nonexpert & their word is meaningless.
For a credible statement, they'll need to admit relevant evidence instead of ask a nonexpert.

Imagine being asked for a medical diagnosis when you're not a qualified physician.
It's perfectly fair to point out you're not an expert on the matter & point out your awareness of distinctions between imprecise conventional language & precise, scientific definitions.

No one is obligated to volunteer dubious claims to antagonize themselves on the stand just because you want them to.

Life is better without selling your data.

Pam Bondi, is that you?

I've definitely hit 16 hr days before for gaming but it's rare as hell. Warframe, Runescape and Minecraft are probably the only 3 to hit that peak, and I'm definitely not a functioning human during that time.

Well, it’s very simple, don’t you see?
When he makes money, it’s not addiction
When he makes no money, it’s addiction

A system that benefits people who lie about objective facts should be destroyed.

If the tactical business decision is to look someone in the face and say "spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours, idly gazing at photos of anything is not an addiction" in order to protect business interests, then things are wrong. Addiction to a product should be met with horror! Oh no, how could this happen? Instead, it's part of the business model.

"Business" is a blight.

Since you care deeply about truth or something, when will you be correcting your comments that, at best, lack huge amounts of truth that change the contents you put forth? At best, you accidentally skipped multiple paragraphs that contradict your claims. At less best, you knew better.

Thank you. And to anyone out there trying to quit. You have to try out vaping and then when you get sick of getting sticky from the juice. You’ll finally want to just stop.

I still think that 16 hours of gaming are better than 16 hours of scrolling videos that are passively fetched to you.

Instagram, really is ZUCKERBoRG using his puppets in his stead.

What did Snapchat and TikTok settle for? Did they just pay money to not to expose themselves in court? Or did they actually settled to FUCKING FINALLY crack down on addiction and other issues on their platform? (x) Doubt

Selling our data implies that we get to have profits.

Life is better without companies selling our data.

Might be tad more on point.

Teenagers.

He's right. Clinical addiction has nothing to do with how much you do something, it has to do with how much it causes problems in your life. I know everyone on Lemmy is tripping over their own hard ons to kill corporations, but there are people using lemmy 16 hours a day and if laws are passed to fight Internet addiction, they will not specifically target corporations. We all go down together. Just ask the creator of Urban Dead.

My dealer says the same

Gotcha, I can do 16 hours of Insta on coke off the toilet seat and be OK. Thank you CDC!

I dunno. I found it pretty addicting when I was holding both a vape and my phone, and I had doomscrolled for 9 hours till the battery died without having hit my vape once

Punchable face.

I guess we could chalk it up to bad journalism because the example was purely anecdotal. It‘s frustrating for sure.

Are you sure it benefits him to say that? I think its not even a left vs right issue to recognize this is an issue. At least it sparks discussion and makes people criticize him.

Like in Mountainhead.

Of all my active addictions, none take 16 hours to satiate.

16 hours of doing coke? Im never gonna financially recover from this.

UltraViolence

I wish I could game for 16 hours straight, but my flesh is spongey and weak.

Yeah but i spend 0 hours a day on social media. There is someone out there that reads 16 hours a day and bo one calls books addictive.

Coming from a potential cocaine sniffing addict that’s not surprising

Chores dont stop because you get older bud

All CEOs of the big ones are sociopaths. It's by design.

Guys you heard it here first: You can drink alcohol for 16 hours everyday and it's not addiction.

This has to be rage bait. I feel like the less time I'm on there, the happier I am. Even the 30 minutes daily limit that I usually set for apps like that is time I'm never getting back.

The only reason I have an account to begin with is because I'm a photographer (even if just a hobbyist) and I like to have some presence in the circles I'm in. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be there at all.

They tend to get more. Teenagers won't do chores for shit though, lol. Teens will do whatever they want for 24h straight, then sleep for 16 hours.

spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours

Even worse: if you get a proper night's sleep, 16 hours is literally the entire day. Dude is saying if you are getting healthy amounts of sleep, it is perfectly acceptable to spend 100% of your time doom scrolling on their website. No eating, no going to work, no showering.

It's an absurd statement.

Well, Diablo 2 sure has for me.

Post said he said a thing. He did not say the thing. Not complicated.

Could have worded the post title to be accurate: didn’t. Instead, lied.

Words matter. Truth matters. Interpretation is how you get religious people performing atrocities based on millennia old writings.

“[Asshole] Squirms Under Questioning, Refuses To Admit 16hrs A Day Is Addictive Behavior.”

Not hard.

Your comments now are a huge shift from

"That sounds like problematic use," the Instagram boss answered. He did not call it an addiction.

He also didn’t say it was a tomato.

Seems that, in the interest of accuracy, you should update them, lest you be the thing you claim others are.

"Its not an addiction, I'm not addicted snorts line off a toilet seat I'M PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL"

You don't have to be a sociopath to be a CEO, but most CEOs are sociopaths.. because sociopathic traits, mostly lack of empathy and zero issue with being horribly manipulative, are traits that tend to be selected for to move up to this level.

Hell yeah

I recommend a re-read, my good buddy, of all my posts in this thread.

Truth. Not lies. Not conjecture.

This can be the truth that he was dodging the question.

Don’t say people said things they didn’t say. Simple.

Your original post was a lie, or dumb accident, through omission. And now that you know better, you are lying intentionally in it.

You know damn well they were talking about addiction and not tomatoes. And yet you dishonestly tell people those two things are the same.

Goddammit, who the hell let RFK Jr. in here?

A lot of them sell shit or practice law instead.