Put #socialdilemma on your must-watch list. Most sane folks already know much of what is going on with SM, but that movie is a neat summary of everything that has gone wrong with SM. Technology has evolved faster than human consciousness and it has made beasts of billions.
Psychologically,the phenomenon is a no-brainer for anyone who understands the basic mechanism of learning & conditioning. How reward mechanisms arnd vanity & the need to say something,anything, work. How othering works. How habituation & the need for larger dose 4 next high works
"For the first 50 years, Silicon Valley used to make products that consumers could use. Now the biggest companies there sell their users."
"If you are not paying for the product, then YOU are the product".
#socialdilemma
How many of these are you active on?
Twitter
Facebook
Snapchat
Whatsapp groups [>4]
Instagram
Youtube
Reddit
LinkedIn
Pinterest
For me, it is Twitter mainly. I don't have FB/Insta/Snap/Reddit/Pin/Red. WA is under control.Occasional foray into LinkedIn about twice a month.
Gotta cut twitter time too. It hit me that i am being hypocritical - perhaps less than many, yet still pretty active on twitter.
"Your attention is the product being sold to advertisers".
Attention,i believe, is a form of respect,even love. Are we squandering it away on meaningless pursuits? How profoundly lonely r ppl addicted to excessive screen time?
Tying this up w/ the tales I hear from clients too.
I just gotta read this one.
If someone has already, please share what you found to be highlights from this book.
#Books
This fits in here. Because at the heart of what lies in the tweets above is Manipulation of the Mind.
#EndofThread
#Psychology
"Human beings evolved to gossip, preen, manipulate, and ostracize. We are easily lured into this new gladiatorial circus....Citizens are now more connected to one another, on platforms that have been designed to make outrage contagious."
Good read.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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