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People are breaking into cars because of social media trends. Remember Kia Challenge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge
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If heroin was free, nobody would be breaking into cars but there'd still be a problem.

I think we're missing the point debating addictiveness. meta very deliberately use patterns that result in compulsive usage - and at the scale they operate - cause a substantial amount of societal damage as a result.

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Facebook is legal, like alcohol. People drive drunk and kill people. People drive while using facebook and kill people as well.
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They're also not doing that to pay for tobacco. Come on. Heroin is justifiably illegal for good reason already; you're stretching the analogy past breaking point.
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