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Tell HN: Dream/Nightmare of “Engagement”
7 points by AnimalMuppet on Nov 14, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Last night I had a dream. (No, this isn't a parable; I literally dreamed this last night.)

People wore a VR device that could also monitor the person's health. Facebook used that to monitor the user's use of oxygen, and used that to drive engagement - the more oxygen they were using, the more engaged they were. (I say "Facebook", though in my dream I didn't see a logo. It looked like an FB-style feed, though.)

That is, they were driving engagement to the point where it became a physically measurable load on the user. "Engagement" became a sap on their physical energy.

Just a nightmare?




ok but what about informed consent




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