"IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)

106 points by mikestew 5mo ago ↗ HN

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Doubt that very very much

All social media is a drug, and I lump Discord in there as Social Media, especially if WhatsApp is social media for many outside of the US.

JuniperMesos 5mo ago ↗

Discord doesn't fundamentally do anything that IRC didn't do, except work reliably on a smartphone. If that's a drug, then that seems pretty close to saying that any kind of online interaction with other human beings is a drug.

bloqs 5mo ago ↗

Irc had screensharing and group video chat i had no idea

falcor84 5mo ago ↗

Some are harder drugs than others. I'd say that HN is caffeine, discord and whatsapp are alcohol, and Instagram is meth.

johnneville 5mo ago ↗

i agree that discord is social media but the absence of instagram's individually targeted algorithmic curation is an important distinction when it comes to being "drug"-like for me

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ares623 5mo ago ↗

Jury selection for this should be interesting.

deaux 5mo ago ↗

Why does Ars pretend that trials have any meaning in the US? Maybe if this lawsuit was taking place elsewhere, sure. Zuck will just follow in Bezos' footsteps, make a movie "Donald Jr", and that'll be it.

Of course I know why they pretend, because they too don't really care, and keeping up the facade is better for business.

mediumsmart 5mo ago ↗

I can’t get past the 225 partners that care about my privacy but I’m sure the commercial technical ass site has a point.

mdavid626 5mo ago ↗

Seems like pouring few millions to cover damages will be enough. I don’t expect big changes.

Seanambers 5mo ago ↗

everything is like that, reddit, X, fb, IG, tiktok.

user beware