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date: '2017-09-16'
title: 'Why do we keep using Facebook?'
description: "Facebook offers a terrible bargain: It gives you the connectedness you crave, but it's unfulfilling and leaves you wanting more. It's like drinking Coke, or eating McDonald's, except you don't even have to pay for it."
tags: ['social media']
---

**[Dylan Tweney:](https://hackernoon.com/why-do-we-keep-using-facebook-ee59ded4602d)**

> Facebook offers a terrible bargain: It gives you the connectedness you crave, but it's unfulfilling and leaves you wanting more. It's like drinking Coke, or eating McDonald's, except you don't even have to pay for it. No wonder we guzzle it down, when all the evidence, and even our own eyes and hearts, show us how bad it is for us.<!-- excerpt -->
