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Engineered Addiction to a Psychological Narcotic

By Andy Caldwell

Mar 01, 2026
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Former Facebook president Sean Parker stated that the Facebook site “was made to consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible to exploit the vulnerability (the craving of social validation) in human psychology.”

That is a nice way to say the business model is based upon the vulnerability of humans to become addicted. Unfortunately, th…

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