Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook (played by Justin Timberlake in the movie), now calls himself a “conscientious objector” to social media. In an interview with Axios, he begrudgingly admitted: God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains. The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them,…was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a
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