I definitely don’t spend 2 hours a day scrolling facebook, though I may spend about that long scrolling twitter (mostly miserably but occaisonally I see something really useful).
I think I’d do that even if there were no algorithm, though. There isn’t one in my twitter list of consistently good accounts, nor in mastodon, I still check these things often, they are not much less juicy. People often say that twitter was designed to be addictive. It mostly wasn’t designed at all. It was selected. And most of that “addiction” is just a craving for a thriving social space online.
I definitely don’t spend 2 hours a day scrolling facebook, though I may spend about that long scrolling twitter (mostly miserably but occaisonally I see something really useful).
I think I’d do that even if there were no algorithm, though. There isn’t one in my twitter list of consistently good accounts, nor in mastodon, I still check these things often, they are not much less juicy.
People often say that twitter was designed to be addictive. It mostly wasn’t designed at all. It was selected. And most of that “addiction” is just a craving for a thriving social space online.