The Tyranny of Endless Feeds
Image by Pixabay 2000 words. "I am sorry". These are the words uttered by the CEO of the biggest social network on our planet during the congressional hearing. Mark Zuckerberg was apologizing for not being 'careful enough' with the private data of Facebook's users which led to Cambridge Analytica scanda l. Chris Huges, the co-founder of Facebook, thinks that Facebook has become too powerful and should be dismantled. Chris Wetherell r egrets building the retweet button and compares it with 'handing over a loaded gun to a 4 year old' while Ethan Zuckerman feels guilty for coding the first pop-up ad on the internet. Some of the famous designers in the silicon valley like Nir Eyal who preach how to build habit forming websites, go great lengths to avoid getting addicted to their own designs as if drug dealers are abstaining themselves from 'doing their own stuff'. It's not very hard to see why these architects of our digital-scape are ...