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Sean Parker, an early investor of Facebook and its first founding president, said the social network's founders deliberately created it to become addictive.

"God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains," Parker said in an Axios interview published Thursday, Nov. 9. He added that each "like" or "comment," is a dopamine hit, exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology on purpose to keep Facebook users hooked.

It puts users under a "social-validation feedback loop," said Parker, something that "a hacker like myself would come up with."

Facebook's Shady Principles
At an Axios event in Philadelphia, Parker noted he has become a "conscientious objector" on social media, though he maintains accounts on Facebook and Twitter. Parker, current chair of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, said that the investors and creators — especially Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom, and himself — were all conscious of the so-called validation loop. Yet "we did it anyway."

By Parker's definition, Facebook is akin to feeling good or receiving instant gratification after small hits of feedback — then wanting more afterward. Using Facebook, as The Verge points out, is quick and easy but yields very little substance. It's an oversimplified definition of addiction, but it otherwise falls into that category. Of course, no authorities currently acknowledge Facebook as a legitimate form of addiction.

Vying For Your Attention
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