Social media companies are darn good at what they're doing
Was doing something really boring, packing my last drawer. Many months of not clearing it out and looking at stuff in there got it packed full of junk. A little boredom and my fingers go to Facebook. I didn't delete it off my phone in case I ever get bored and want to catch up on my friends' lives. Yeah right. They know what's coming. One video, and then another. It's 20 minutes on one. (Trigger warning: Abuse) I'm hooked on videos of child abduction and abuse. ): Who wouldn't be? The cases are so disturbing I cannot fathom why anyone would do such a thing. But Facebook knows and Facebook doesn't care. It keeps feeding me videos like that so I won't get off it. You think you're consuming content. N. O. It's consuming you. The algorithm sees what you cannot stop watching or reading and feeds you content after content of things like that. It doesn't care if it's nice animal videos or disgusting, horrifying ones. As long as it sees yo