FORMER FACEBOOK PRESIDENT SEAN PARKER:
"GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT IT'S DOING TO OUR CHILDREN'S BRAINS"
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(The Telegraph) — Facebook has been
criticized 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’s company 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 criticized 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.
Facebook and internet addiction have been found to show up in brain scans in a similar way to drug addiction. Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook, was found to have to have the worst impact on young people's self esteem, negatively impacting people's body image, sleep and fear of missing out.
Facebook
came under fire earlier this week for asking users to send in nude
pictures they feared would be leaked on the social network so it could automatically block the images if they were uploaded as revenge porn.
Several
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have expressed concerns about the so-called
"war for your attention" as Google, Facebook and other internet
giants compete for user interaction.
Tristan Harris, a former Google engineer, said on Twitter: "The race to bottom of the brain stem is not my opinion, it's the truth - I'm describing how the system works... This isn't about criticising the tech industry, it's about urgent need to reform the way the attention economy works."
Parker, 37, was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network. Arrested by the FBI for hacking at 16, he went on to found controversial file-sharing website Napster in 1999, which was later shut down under legal challenges from the music industry.
He has invested in a series of other companies, including Spotify, serving on the music streaming service's board for a period, although he now devotes most of his time to philanthropy. In 2013 he was fined $2.5m for building a film-style wedding venue in a conservation area in California without permits.
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Former President Of Facebook Exposes Their Evil Plan
Speaking at an Axios event Wednesday, Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, said the app used by over two billion people around the world takes advantage of human psychology and the need for social-validation, and is possibly re-wiring human 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?'” Parker said.
The billionaire also revealed the company proceeded with their exploitation of the human mind despite signs the website altered one’s “relationship with society,” and could be negatively affecting children.
“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 app, Parker explained, plays off human psychological needs, effectively exploiting a feedback loop every time a person’s content receives likes, shares or comments, encouraging them to use the app more frequently.
“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.”
While Facebook developers and creators, including company CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were aware of the website’s potential to essentially control one’s mind, Parker says they did nothing to change it.
“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.”
Parker now heads up a cancer research institute and claims he’s become a social media “conscientious objector.”
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Tristan Harris, a former Google engineer, said on Twitter: "The race to bottom of the brain stem is not my opinion, it's the truth - I'm describing how the system works... This isn't about criticising the tech industry, it's about urgent need to reform the way the attention economy works."
Parker, 37, was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network. Arrested by the FBI for hacking at 16, he went on to found controversial file-sharing website Napster in 1999, which was later shut down under legal challenges from the music industry.
He has invested in a series of other companies, including Spotify, serving on the music streaming service's board for a period, although he now devotes most of his time to philanthropy. In 2013 he was fined $2.5m for building a film-style wedding venue in a conservation area in California without permits.
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All Facebook Users Must Know THIS Secret
Alex Jones breaks down how the Facebook social networking website is
designed to prey on a psychological “vulnerability,” the company’s
former president recently warned.
Speaking at an Axios event Wednesday, Facebook’s first president, Sean
Parker, said the app used by over two billion people around the world
takes advantage of human psychology and the need for social-validation,
and is possibly re-wiring human brains.
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The Facebook social networking website is designed to prey on a
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republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The Facebook social networking website is designed to prey on
a psychological “vulnerability,” the company’s former president
recently warned.Speaking at an Axios event Wednesday, Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, said the app used by over two billion people around the world takes advantage of human psychology and the need for social-validation, and is possibly re-wiring human 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?'” Parker said.
The billionaire also revealed the company proceeded with their exploitation of the human mind despite signs the website altered one’s “relationship with society,” and could be negatively affecting children.
“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 app, Parker explained, plays off human psychological needs, effectively exploiting a feedback loop every time a person’s content receives likes, shares or comments, encouraging them to use the app more frequently.
“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.”
While Facebook developers and creators, including company CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were aware of the website’s potential to essentially control one’s mind, Parker says they did nothing to change it.
“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.”
Parker now heads up a cancer research institute and claims he’s become a social media “conscientious objector.”
Follow @AdanSalazarWins
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adan.salazar.735
