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.
He is not qualified to identify what is and isn’t addiction. He is qualified to demonstrate he’s a psychopath.
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???
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?
When the president of the united states is held to zero accountability and no one seems to care. Why would these assholes?
They are the exact same type of assholes
Post headline deserves a downvote. Quote from article:
Lanier asked Mosseri what he thought of K.G.M’s longest single day of use of Instagram being 16 hours.
“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. 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.
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.
“It’s important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use,” [Instagram head Adam Mosseri] added.
“I’m sure I’ve said that I’ve been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don’t think it’s the same thing as clinical addiction.”
Yet, Mosseri repeatedly said he was not an expert in addiction in response to Lanier’s questioning.
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.
I fear for the future of reading comprehension. The article gives people multiple paragraphs of context to understand addiction as what is being talked about. I don’t expect the word to be wedged into every sentence about the same topic. Adam Mosseri was clearly doing everything in his playbook to not use the word addiction in a sentence.
And Adam Mosseri knew better. We know he’s been confronted with evidence of addiction but doesn’t want to listen.
But I do find it much more concerning that Analog appointed himself judge of bad articles, then either accidentally or intentionally omitted the preceding paragraphs that I had to quote for him.
The post accurately copies the article’s headline without editorialising.
The article itself is shit though.
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.
Something something defending the billionaires! /s
I just dislike sensationalism.
If the truth isn’t enough, then I don’t want it.
You dislike the truth. You should watch Tobacco CEOs deny that cigarettes were an addiction.
Hopefully Analog returns to Lemmy in far less than 12 days, and heavily edits their comments to reflect their error
Philip Morris: 1 pack of cigarettes per day is not addiction.
They’ll say everything and exploit anyone for their numbers.
Such a moral way to run a whole economic philosophy.
What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?
Why do ppl spend hours on slot machines in bars and casinos? What are they doing during all those hours?
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.
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.
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.
I recommend imginn for checking instagram via a browser. I use it for basically the same reason, checking on local businesses.
idk but the fact that people do that is sad as fuck
Doom scroll
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
I child a day is not a pedophile.
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
A child a day keeps the Attorney General away!
First stage: denial.
“That’s not addiction. They can log off anytime. Bro, it’s called commitment.”
When I read Instagram boss:
Punching that guy in the face is not violence either, you know? /s
He’s right, it’s whatever we call the next stage up from addiction.
Oh, fuck this article. He didn’t say it wasn’t . He just didn’t even mention the word at all.
He just didn’t even mention the word at all.
Did we read the same article? You can literally search for where he uses the word.
“It’s important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use,” he added.
“I’m sure I’ve said that I’ve been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don’t think it’s the same thing as clinical addiction.”
Yeah, I dunno what article that dude read. Or didn’t read, apparently.
