Why do many creators of online platforms not use them themselves?

What do they know, that we don't? Consider these quotes from top tech industry executives:

Sean Parker, who was the founding president of Facebook, has publicly called himself "something of a conscientious objector" on social media and said, “God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains.”
Copy LinkJOURNALISM · Bilton, 2014. The New York Times ↗

“We’ve unleashed a beast, but there’s a lot of unintended consequences,” says Tony Fadell, inventor of the iPod and co-inventor of the iPhone. “I don’t think we have the tools we need to understand what we do every day… we have zero data about our habits on our devices.”
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Many modern Silicon Valley parents strongly restrict technology use at home, and some of the area’s top schools minimize tech in the classroom. In the words of one 44-year-old parent who used to work at Google, "We know at some point they will need to get their own phones, but we are prolonging it as long as possible."
Copy LinkJOURNALISM · Allen, 2017. Axios ↗

Chamath Palihapitiya, former VP of user growth at Facebook, has said that: “I can control my decision, which is that I don’t use that sh%t. I can control my kids’ decisions, which is that they’re not allowed to use that sh%t... The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works.”
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Steve Jobs, who was CEO of Apple for many years, told reporters that his kids don’t use iPads and that “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
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An interviewer asks Tim Kendall, former Facebook executive, what he fears the most about the trajectory of social media.  He replies: “Civil war.”
He goes on... “If something is a tool, it genuinely is just sitting there, waiting patiently. If something is not a tool it's demanding things from you. It's seducing you, it’s manipulating you, it wants things from you.""
"We've moved away from a tools based technology environment, to an addiction and manipulation...environment. Social media isn't a tool waiting to be used. It has its own goals, and it has its own means of pursuing them by using your psychology against you.”

He also said, "We made it (Facebook) as addictive as ciggarettes."  and, "It is a threat to democracy."

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has set surprisingly strict rules for how his kids can use technology.

Each of Gates' three kids — ages 15, 18, and 21 — has grown up in a home that forbade cell phones until age 14, banned cell-phone use at the dinner table, and set limits on how close to bedtime kids could use their phones.

Gates told the Mirror his kids routinely complained that other kids were getting phones much earlier, but the pleas did nothing to change the policy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-bill-gates-limits-tech-use-for-his-kids-2018-1?op=1

And more from tech industry insiders:

”There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.”

”If you’re not paying for the product, then you’re the product.”

”It’s the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in our own behaviour and perception that is the product.”

(The above three quotes are taken from the documentary: The Social Dilemma)

This is just a small sampling of many telling statements that are trickling out from those who have worked "behind the screen." Is it not strange, that those who know the most about the online products they create won't use them themselves--nor their will they let their kidds?

Jesus Said, "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise."  Luke 6:31

Many tech professionals have practiced the opposite. They have done to others what they would never dream of taking for themselves.

Are they just evil and bad men, who want to destroy the minds of others? Not really, its more complicated than that. They are gifted men, very smart, who got involved in business ventures that required them to do certain things to succeed. Large amounts of money was at stake. Money was borrowed to start the platforms. Investors needed to be repaid. Sacrifices had to be made.

To not make those sacrifices meant throwing away careers, personal bankruptcy for themselves and their families. Under that kind of pressure, it seemed better to push some inconvenient facts into the background...just for a little while. That "little while," has turned into a run-away train that is impossible to stop.

Some insiders have left the field with great guilt and remorse at the damage they have done to millions of minds, to society. They are now whistle blowers, sounding the alarm about the dangers. But the lure of large amounts of money propels new and younger men to quickly take their place...and make their own, "sacrifices." And so, the runaway train rushes forward.

They made their choices, and they can't change that now. But you can still make your choices. You don't have to be the next victim of digital destruction. You can take control of your life. It may not be easy, but you CAN do it.

Its easy to point fingers at others, and their failings, but what about us?
Are we making "sacrifices" when we get on these platforms? Are we exposing ourselves to things that we know are wrong? Even if the designers made the wrong choices, we can make the right ones.

But if we don't step up and make the right choices--are we really any better than them?