They’ll say and exploit anyone for their numbers.
Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction
Submitted 23 hours ago by excel24@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn71mgmzljlo
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themurphy@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Such a moral way to run a whole economic philosophy.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
Philip Morris: 1 pack of cigarettes per day is not addiction.
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 hours ago
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.
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Greatest accomplishment of my life was quitting cigarettes.
qarbone@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
I’ve known drug dealers more honourable than this.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Punchable face.
arcine@jlai.lu 15 hours ago
I don’t even use “being awake” 16 hours a day 😂
pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Coming from a potential cocaine sniffing addict that’s not surprising
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
My dealer says the same
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
All I do is play fucking games and even 16 hours of that is absurd unless I’m specifically trying to force my sleep pattern into something usable again.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
I wish I could game for 16 hours straight, but my flesh is spongey and weak.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
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.
Scrollone@feddit.it 7 hours ago
I still think that 16 hours of gaming are better than 16 hours of scrolling videos that are passively fetched to you.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
What’s the deal with tech bosses obviously lying lately? Just a legal thing? Or a it’s true if we say it long enough thing?
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
When the president of the united states is held to zero accountability and no one seems to care. Why would these assholes?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
They are the exact same type of assholes
Zink@programming.dev 13 hours ago
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!
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?
Motocolpittz@piefed.ca 22 hours ago
My ex was super depressed. Long story short she was struggling with sexuality. I watched her spend literal hours on the couch scrolling insta. She got deep into Reels and would watch them all day. The algorithm is so addicting. It kept her eyes glued. She also ended up down the self diagnosed rabbit hole deciding she had all sorts of mental illness. It was awful.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I only have an Instagram account to follow when special beers are released by a local brewery. That’s their only method of communication, which is annoying.
I have found myself on IG watching skateboarding or cliff diving videos for 15 or 20 minutes before catching myself. It’s crazy how addicting it can be. I’m not doom scrolling or even researching a hobby I often do. I just find those videos fascinating, and it keeps feeding that to me. I just don’t open IG anymore.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Why do ppl spend hours on slot machines in bars and casinos?
FB, IG, TikTok, Candy Crush etc. are all using those exact same techniques to get you hooked like junkies.
It’s literally a crime a against humanity.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Doom scroll
krashmo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
idk but the fact that people do that is sad as fuck
minorkeys@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
He is not qualified to identify what is and isn’t addiction. He is qualified to demonstrate he’s a psychopath.
Godric@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Gotcha, I can do 16 hours of Insta on coke off the toilet seat and be OK. Thank you CDC!
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
16 hours of doing coke? Im never gonna financially recover from this.
Clbull@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Why does he look like Steve Carrell playing a sociopathic big tech asshole?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Like in Mountainhead.
Monfreaky444@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Thought it was the Verizon guy.
vane@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
UltraViolence
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Of all my active addictions, none take 16 hours to satiate.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Bro I spend 4 hours a day gaming and I feel guilty enough to fuck over my sleep schedule and get some chores done. 16 hours???
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 6 hours ago
Teenagers.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
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.
BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
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
MehBlah@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You can trust ol empty eyes there. He knows what he is lying.
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
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
vpol@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
I child a day is not a pedophile.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
A child a day keeps the Attorney General away!
vpol@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
XLE@piefed.social 20 hours ago
If this Instagram guy was as dodgy about defining pedophilia as he was about defining addiction, everybody here would have no trouble identifying him as a pedophile protector
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Instagram, really is ZUCKERBoRG using his puppets in his stead.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Life is better without selling your data.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Selling our data implies that we get to have profits.
Life is better without companies selling our data.
Might be tad more on point.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
What a smug stupid fucking lying face on this piece of shit… He thinks he’s fucking being cute with his little glasses and eyebrows feinting surprise
That lede photo is the very fucking epitome of the Upton Sinclair’s “it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it”
He is being paid hundreds of millions of dollars to pretend to be ignorant, to blatantly lie to people, while looking them straight in the eye. More money than you or me will ever see in all our combined lifetimes, to make that stupid fucking face
Morphite88@thelemmy.club 22 hours ago
When I read Instagram boss: Instagram boss
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
“Because like 10hr of that is background usage while we harvest your data.”
4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Punching that guy in the face is not violence either, you know? /s
Analog@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Post headline deserves a downvote. Quote from article:
He also didn’t say it was a tomato. Like wtf do you want, I can’t tell if he was asked specifically if 16 hours a day was an addiction. The prior question was about whether he had known she had a 16hr day, and he had not. (He should have; poor trial prep.)
This is sensationalist BS and I dearly want this platform to be better than that.
Just so we’re clear, Meta can die in a fire and the world would be better off, I’m not defending them in the slightest.
XLE@piefed.social 21 hours ago
The title is accurate.
He was asked if it was an addiction, and he repeatedly used technicalities and weaseley language to refuse to admit it.
lmmarsano@group.lt 12 hours ago
see
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.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
That still sounds misleading. He was not speaking for 16 hours of use which is what the headline suggests. As other has stated, I hope those companies crumble but I think honesty is important, not sensationalization.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The entire line of questioning was about addiction and the CEO was pretending it wasn’t (he didn’t want up admit the truth because his company would be liable). The headline was accurate and your take is officially a hot one.
artyom@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Something something defending the billionaires! /s
Analog@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
I just dislike sensationalism.
If the truth isn’t enough, then I don’t want it.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 19 hours ago
The post accurately copies the article’s headline without editorialising.
The article itself is shit though.
lmmarsano@group.lt 13 hours ago
This platform loves sensationalism. Same with other platforms.