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Science fiction author, technologist, advocate for democratization of the Internet and society.
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Profiting from convincing (or, perhaps more accurately, "manipulating") people to pay attention. Big Social Media[2] sites like Facebook are part of the attention economy: you pay nothing to use the site. In fact, you are the product; they sell your attention to advertisers, and therefore design their product to maximize their profits by manipulating you to spend more time on the site[3].
3: /how-the-attention-economy-hurts-you-via-social-media-sites-like-facebook/
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