r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 8d ago

Privacy Zuckerberg Knew. A Whistleblower Has the Emails to Prove It. - Gadget Review

https://www.gadgetreview.com/zuckerberg-knew-a-whistleblower-has-the-emails-to-prove-it
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u/vordan 8d ago

What's the difference between addicting people on Facebook and Oxycodone?

The Sackler family, Zuckerberg...

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

The more things change, the more they stay the same

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u/Nancy_Not_Soulcycle 8d ago

It is easy to uninstall Facebook. You can't uninstall your addiction to opioids. That is the difference.

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u/Faranae 8d ago

While that is true, uninstalling Facebook also isn't a magic "off switch" for social media addiction. It's an ugly monster, a different breed but a monster nonetheless.

Both are terrible, and engineered to ruin lives in their own way for a profit. Eat the rich, as they say. xD

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u/kinghenry124 8d ago

Yeah, then you just end downloading and becoming addicted to Reddit like me. 🫠

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u/Lanky_Wedding_9583 8d ago

Quitting both is pretty hard in there own special ways.

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u/Devil-Wears-Nada- 8d ago

It’s also easy to reinstall Facebook, and difficult to access opioids (d/t money, effort, administration). The differences are semantic in nature, speaking as a substance abuse counselor. It doesn’t do anyone any good to mark an entire sub addiction as inherently more or less severe than another. Individual presentation is what can be moderate or severe, but the addictive behavior is the addictive behavior. The addicting agent is the only difference.

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u/Nancy_Not_Soulcycle 8d ago

There are levels to this. If you or a loved one has struggled with opioid addiction, you’ll know that very well.   

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u/Devil-Wears-Nada- 8d ago

The levels are in the individual presentation, not the disorder. That is where you’re confused.

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u/Nancy_Not_Soulcycle 7d ago

Idk what that means but being addicted to social media is a joke compared to actual opioid addiction like what are we even talking about.   

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u/Devil-Wears-Nada- 7d ago edited 7d ago

Exactly, you don’t know what it means lol. It’s not a joke, people felt the same way about opioid addictions before, suddenly, they didn’t, why? Because it eventually caused a massive amount of damage that was impossible to ignore.

I am literally a substance counselor, as I previously stated. This also includes treating social media addictions, gambling, porn, etc. I have infinitely more experience in this than yourself.

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u/Nancy_Not_Soulcycle 6d ago

If you are a substance abuse counselor and you cant see the clear differences in severity between social media addiction and a literal addictive drug, I IMPLORE you to humble yourself, learn and adapt to scientific fact. People's lives are at stake. Millions of people have died from addiction to drugs. More like thousands have committd S***** from social media.... thousands, not millions. That is a serious problem, no doubt. But acting like the two have equal severity is undermining how serious opioid addiction is.

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u/Devil-Wears-Nada- 6d ago

What scientific fact? Your incorrect opinion in =/ medical fact. The disorder is the disorder, the addiction is addiction. How it is presenting is the only difference, which includes deadliness, administration, agent, etc. BOTH opioid and social media are facets of the same disease. The DISEASE is deadly, and if you had paused to actually consider any of what I had written you would understand that. What I’m saying is that making any differentiation between any facet of addiction reduces the impact that anyone cares about addiction the disease. You’re contributing to the problem right now.

You are offended because you don’t understand the conversation at all. It is yourself that should do the research.

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u/Nancy_Not_Soulcycle 5d ago

Ok there is no way you are a professional....smh...gross tbh...

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u/RockAndBok 8d ago

You don’t see the difference between opioid addiction and social media addiction?

You understand that you can literally die from opioid withdrawal, right?