In 2017, Sean Parker sat down with Axios for an interview.

Parker was the first president of Facebook,

if you're an Aaron Sorkin fan,

he's played by Justin Timberlake in the movie.

But he now calls himself a conscientious objector

to social media.

In the interview, he said this about the social media

empire that he helped to create.

Quote, God only knows what it's doing to our children's

brains.

The thought process that went into building these applications,

Facebook being the first of them,

was all about how do we consume as much of your time

and conscious attention as possible?

And that means we need to give you sort of a little dopamine

hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented

on a photo or a post or whatever.

And that's going to get you to contribute more content.

And that's going to get you more likes and comments.

It's a social validation feedback loop.

Exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself

would come up with, because, get this,

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