I'd really like to see some kind of "Proving Ground" social network that exists for the sole purpose of verifying and elucidating the emotional manipulation that can be achieved with the current technology.
Otherwise I predict we're going to continue getting articles from technologists leaving Facebook who all keep quoting the same scant material, who all make highly speculative and grand conclusions that aren't supported by the evidence. (E.g., Facebook's "emotional lock-in" that the author doesn't back up with any evidence.)
People break DRM thanks to the toolset that others made available on their OS. People will break the facile emotional manipulation that exists on every social network today, but only when we have the toolset to at least elucidate the problem.
Otherwise I predict we're going to continue getting articles from technologists leaving Facebook who all keep quoting the same scant material, who all make highly speculative and grand conclusions that aren't supported by the evidence. (E.g., Facebook's "emotional lock-in" that the author doesn't back up with any evidence.)
People break DRM thanks to the toolset that others made available on their OS. People will break the facile emotional manipulation that exists on every social network today, but only when we have the toolset to at least elucidate the problem.