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No matter what you think of social media, a new analogy just got served up in Davos, Switzerland by Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff. Facebook is like cigarettes and should be regulated as such.


Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff offered up an analogy: Treat social media like a health issue, similar to tobacco and sugar.

"I think that you do it exactly the same way that you regulated the cigarette industry. Here's a product: Cigarettes. They're addictive, they're not good for you," Benioff told CNBC's "Squawk Alley" on Tuesday. "I think that for sure, technology has addictive qualities that we have to address, and that product designers are working to make those products more addictive and we need to rein that back."
 
I gave up on youth (largest target audience for this "sickness") after countries had to install stop and go lights in the ground because people couldn't look up to avoid walking into the street.

I got my ticket to the freak show (George Carlin) and it's getting more and more depressing to watch it get worse.
 
Yet, another CEO giving an opinion on a topic outside his wheelhouse. The question is, how could you possibly regulate it in a free society? Is everyone to have a minder? Someone to report them to law enforcement everytime they're seen posting more than 6 times a day or spotted reading more than 15 minutes a day?

How would this apply to other online mediums like this site, news outlets.....gaming???

Yes, social media is addictive. It, however, can be walked away from with little will power and without ill side effects.
 
Chupachup said:
Yet, another CEO giving an opinion on a topic outside his wheelhouse. The question is, how could you possibly regulate it in a free society? Is everyone to have a minder? Someone to report them to law enforcement everytime they're seen posting more than 6 times a day or spotted reading more than 15 minutes a day?

How would this apply to other online mediums like this site, news outlets.....gaming???

Yes, social media is addictive. It, however, can be walked away from with little will power and without ill side effects.
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And who defines what is healthy? Its a little easier with tobacco. Less so with sugar and almost impossible with social media.
 
there is one big difference though, if you tell someone you dont smoke or drink, generally, they will not care and think it might be a good thing. But if you tell people you do not use facebook, twitter, etc.. many look at you like your some bug or weirdo, and wonder HOW do you function day to day

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Chupachup said:
Yet, another CEO giving an opinion on a topic outside his wheelhouse. The question is, how could you possibly regulate it in a free society? Is everyone to have a minder? Someone to report them to law enforcement everytime they're seen posting more than 6 times a day or spotted reading more than 15 minutes a day?

How would this apply to other online mediums like this site, news outlets.....gaming???

Yes, social media is addictive. It, however, can be walked away from with little will power and without ill side effects.
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In most of the EU and even the world free society doesn't really exist. They censor a lot of free speech already. This is why people need to be grateful for living in USA atm. Tho we getting our right slowly chipped away.
 
That_Sound_Guy said:
I gave up on youth (largest target audience for this "sickness") after countries had to install stop and go lights in the ground because people couldn't look up to avoid walking into the street.
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I remember seeing those things in Phoenix last year and wondering what they were for. A co-worker pointed it out and it made sense afterwards. I guess some people were so engrossed in their phones that they had to become statistics for those things to exist.
 
Portman said:
I remember seeing those things in Phoenix last year and wondering what they were for. A co-worker pointed it out and it made sense afterwards. I guess some people were so engrossed in their phones that they had to become statistics for those things to exist.
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Honestly fuck them if they can't be bother to pay attention to where they walking. Many time I seen people wall into poles, signs, bushes and streets without looking. If they get ran over a car the driver should not be held liable.
 
vegeta535 said:
Honestly fuck them if they can't be bother to pay attention to where they walking. Many time I seen people wall into poles, signs, bushes and streets without looking. If they get ran over a car the driver should not be held liable.
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You know its not unreasonable to have a small cost of the light installation to prevent their death. Some super geniuses are also hyper focused like that and might need these systems. The burdens pretty low compared to the cost of scraping them off the pavement and dealing with their deaths.
 
I'm so Anti smoking kinda like the guy blowing smoke into other people faces while passing them up cause he hated it so much. I tried smoking with pipes even and I could never keep the stuff lite so I ditched the hobby. The first thing they ask you at a clinic is if you smoke and it's for a very good reason.
 
vegeta535 said:
Honestly fuck them if they can't be bother to pay attention to where they walking. Many time I seen people wall into poles, signs, bushes and streets without looking. If they get ran over a car the driver should not be held liable.
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If we're going full-pragmatic, I would very much prefer that a little light get installed on the sidewalk than to have a 15 minute+ traffic jam while the guy gets scrubbed off the street.
 
Comixbooks said:
I'm so Anti smoking kinda like the guy blowing smoke into other people faces while passing them up cause he hated it so much. I tried smoking with pipes even and I could never keep the stuff lite so I ditched the hobby. The first thing they ask you at a clinic is if you smoke and it's for a very good reason.
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My buddies and I went into a cigar shop on a middle school field trip to the beach. I have no idea why.

No one was smoking and I couldn't breathe.
 
vegeta535 said:
Honestly fuck them if they can't be bother to pay attention to where they walking. Many time I seen people wall into poles, signs, bushes and streets without looking. If they get ran over a car the driver should not be held liable.
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That's fine for the pedestrian, but hitting someone with your car, even if it's not your fault is pretty shitty; Getting stuck in the traffic jam isnt great either. Sometimes we have to protect stupid people from themselves for the sake of others, not for the sake of the stupid.
 
I think we should tell people what to do with their lives. Having all that information, instantly, at the tip of your fingertips is fine.

Is it bothering other people that they sit or walk and use their phones? Let's ask the old people what it's like and why this 'new' trend sucks.

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Ur_Mom said:
I think we should tell people what to do with their lives. Having all that information, instantly, at the tip of your fingertips is fine.

Is it bothering other people that they sit or walk and use their phones? Let's ask the old people what it's like and why this 'new' trend sucks.

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Did you mean "dont" tell people what to do with their lives?
 
vegeta535 said:
In most of the EU and even the world free society doesn't really exist. They censor a lot of free speech already. This is why people need to be grateful for living in USA atm. Tho we getting our right slowly chipped away.
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Have you actually been to the EU? It's funny, such a rep as the nanny state, but thanks to our overly litigious society, I feel like they treat their citizens more like adults and don't need to put fences/training wheels/warning labels over everything.
 
kju1 said:
Did you mean "dont" tell people what to do with their lives?
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No. I think we should force people to do what we think is right. If they don't, then they are criminals. I think we should make any soda >16oz illegal, we should ban guns, and no profanity should be used in public so we don't offend anyone.

Yea, I'm being sarcastic. Next, people are going to complain about the cause of my tennis elbow... I don't play tennis.

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darckhart said:
Funny how cigarettes always gets pulled out as the poster child for evil addiction but never alcohol.
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Never coffee actually, even alcohol is used sometimes, but coffee addiction? nahhhhhhhh that will never be used.
 
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Ur_Mom said:
No. I think we should force people to do what we think is right. If they don't, then they are criminals. I think we should make any soda >16oz illegal, we should ban guns, and no profanity should be used in public so we don't offend anyone.

Yea, I'm being sarcastic. Next, people are going to complain about the cause of my tennis elbow... I don't play tennis.

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You never know who is a SJW these days. I thought it best to clarify before I argued a point that you agreed with.
 
Well, yes: because on AmeriKKKa, addiction is an important income stream, and shall not be infringed.
 
People can be addicted to anything, addiction is a problem inside your mind and the solution can't be fixed with government intervention. Every time we make ground on one addiction we see people moving into another. Our parents were addicted to cigarettes we thought we were better but became addicted to TV, and our kids think they are better but are addicted to social media. I think all of these people should be looking for the root cause and treatment of addictive behavior and not try to go out and run through a helpless cause of trying to attack each individual addiction because even if you are capable of pulling people off one addiction they will simply slide to a new one.

Another thing is that some people who have addictive personalities and have a lot of mental problems are actually very "successful" people. Not surprisingly if you throw your life into some effort you might end up a hit. So we have this lack of understanding in society because we look up to some people who have major issues. Lets say with social media, a lot of people are going to end up just wasting life away but some people are going to turn it into a significant income or even fame. Same with sports or video games, and not surprisingly a lot of people who get rich off sports have issues keeping their money, their addictive behavior and mental issues leads them to over spend and mismanage what should have been a life improving opportunity. But to me the 2 are linked, their addictive behavior was what got them to play way to much of a sport and then go pro, and then later that same addictive behavior causes them to spend it all on hookers and blow. But most people don't even see that link. They just shake their head and go I don't get it , they had it all and threw it out.
 
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