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by bell-cot·4y ago·view on hn ↗
> I still have a FB account [...] I have a hard time imagining how anyone could get sucked into it.

I drink a glass of beer several times a week, and can't imagine how anyone could become addicted to alcohol.

Very sadly, the world does not feel at all constrained by my imagination.

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Fair enough, the second half of my comment didn’t really follow from the first. But I think my point stands about the relative attention paid to FB compared to other platforms. I don’t get it.
> Maybe because it's the largest [...]

This. Same way that Apple gets the headlines when it's learned that workers at some electronics factory are being horribly mistreated.

(Well...maybe that's stretching it. I've heard several times that, for quite a few people, FB basically is the web.)