A former Facebook executive has criticised the social network for ripping society apart during a question and answer session.
Chamath Palihapitiya, who worked as Facebook's vice president for user growth, was speaking at an event run by the Stanford Graduate School of Business on 10 November in which he described feeling "tremendous guilt' in helping the company attract two billion users.
His comments echoed remarks by Sean Parker, one of the early pioneers of Facebook, who spoke on 8 November, saying the social network provided "a dopamine hit and a social validation feedback loop, that exploited a vulnerability in human psychology."
However, coverage this week has seen thousands responding to Palihaptiya's words.
"We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works," he told the audience.
He advised people take a "hard break" from social media, describing its effect as "short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops."
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It has caught a lot of people that forgot that posting evidence of doing really goofy things can be a bad idea. When are you going on vacation?
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