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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

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506 points imakwana | 2 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:24 UTC | HN request time: 1.681s | source
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revskill ◴[21 Apr 25 04:58 UTC] No.43748606[source]▶
With ai, i hope the feed is more useful to me.
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ballooney ◴[21 Apr 25 05:02 UTC] No.43748627[source]▶
How could you _possibly_ believe a company like meta would use a new technology to act in your interests rather than theirs?
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noduerme ◴[21 Apr 25 05:07 UTC] No.43748645[source]▶
The same way people think a politician would?
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bee_rider ◴[21 Apr 25 05:08 UTC] No.43748651[source]▶
The politicians in my state do a fairly good job, so that is easy to believe.
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1. noduerme ◴[21 Apr 25 09:23 UTC] No.43749892[source]▶
I assume you mean they do a good job of not acting in their own interests...? Let me know what state I should move to.
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2. bee_rider ◴[21 Apr 25 13:51 UTC] No.43752020[source]▶
> I assume you mean they do a good job of not acting in their own interests...?

They do a good jobs of working in the interest of their constituents. Whether that also includes self interest, I don’t know. They are politicians, their job is to work for their constituents, if we’ve managed to align their self interest with doing their jobs well, that seems fine.

> Let me know what state I should move to.

State and local governments seem to be rated fairly well, just go to one that matches your ideology.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/11/americans...

Pew reports on a negative trend, but states have a huge head start on the federal government.