Facebook’s first president: ‘God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains

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With each like and comment, Facebook is “exploiting” human psychology on purpose to keep users hooked on a “social-validation feedback loop,” Parker said, adding that it is “exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with.”

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“I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other. ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways,” Parker said.

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When helping Facebook get off the ground in 2004, Parker said, he and others involved in the nascent social network thought: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” “And that means that we need to sort of give you 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.”

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