Wednesday, 28 March 2018

The person behind the Like button says software is wasting our time

Last year, when a series of former Facebook executives came forward to reveal misgivings about the world that social media had created, few names resonated more loudly than Justin Rosenstein’s. Rosenstein, who helped to develop the Like button at Facebook and previously worked on Gmail chat at Google, told The Guardian that he had taken several steps to eliminate social media distractions in his life, including limiting his time on Facebook and “banning himself from Snapchat.” “It is very common,” Rosenstein told the newspaper in October, “for humans to develop things with the best of intentions and for them to have unintended, negative consequences.”

Half a year later, Rosenstein says he’s bringing his ideas about digital distractions...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/28/17172404/justin-rosenstein-asana-social-media-facebook-timeline-gantt

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-person-behind-like-button-says.html

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