How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind Vs. The Often Overlooked Positive Side of Social Media by

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The company focuses on the positive, not the negative effects on people

Social Dilemma

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-He spent 3 years at Design Ethicist at Google

Exploit our Minds

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-used to be magician

Hijacking Mind

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Looking for blind spots, what our society’s blind spots? How can social media infiltrate?

Magician Thoughts

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Understands how to read people and control people

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Understand how to manipulate the human psyche

Hijack #1

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You control the menu, you the control the choices

Hijack #1

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If you provide the only choices, then you control the menu

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Choices are manipulated by upstream menus

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Toothpaste.

too much

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Photos,descriptions, and ratings affect how much business companies can receive

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social media is distracting
missing the main point
putting mainstream products in face instead of exploring for new underground things

Drives small businesses to change

flavellem — 2024-10-16 15:57:31 UTC

Mainstream places keep small businesses in the shadow because they are not as pushed on yelp

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How businesses present thrmselves.

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Social media Changes the original question by pushing certain ideas

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the ‘most empowering menu”is different from the menu with the most choices

Social media narrows choice

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Social media pushes apps and technology. It only shows certain choices

Hijacking mind

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Social media and technology subconsciously controls us to stay within certian lines by only showing us specific places people or things, which is basically saying the world is picked for us we don’t get a choice of what we want anymore

Hijacking the Mind

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Social Media made life so easy to swipe and find whatever when the point is to go out and look and explore.

Connections are lost

flavellem — 2024-10-16 16:00:26 UTC

Couples are now online and meeting on apps versus communicating to meetup in real life. Choices for a spouse are confined to a 10-20 mile space based on where someone lives.

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Social media can provide connection between people through communication. Tinder only provides select choices based on an algorithm

“What is not on the Menu?”

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Hijacking minds

flavellem — 2024-10-16 16:02:27 UTC

Causes people to become confines and think inside the box rather than going out and being creative thinking of new ideas that are not on the “menus” in everyday life

Hijacking menu

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Changes how we see our choices and replaces our options

These “wants"

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The empowering feeling of feeling wanted and feeling important is what makes you feel like you need these things to fulfill oneself

Slot Machine

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People feel hooked when you have a reward in return. The addictivness is of expecting something in return is what has consumers coming back.

Intermittent variable reward

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You only get a reward half the time like a slot machine. You get addicted when you only get rewards variability

We are all squirrels.

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Nut Job (2014) Directed by Peter Lepeniotis, Starring Will Arnett

“New needs”

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We’ve come to love the feeling we get from notifications and this menu, our phone builds for us over night. Now a lot of us tend to forget the actual needs we should focus on in the morning because this distraction that builds over time on our phone just creating a negative mindset

Hijacking minds

flavellem — 2024-10-16 16:09:28 UTC

Technology is more about how big businesses can manipulate those into using their app more to make profit rather than use social media apps as a beneficial way to interact with others.

Limits of Social Media

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I feel like social media limits the true communication of humans due to the non expression and the way people just always use these apps in place of just talking to one another.

Slot Machine

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Social media changed how we communicated limits how we communicate has us get addicted to rewards and not the connection we get from talking to people and seeing their lives

Slot Machine

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Tiktok

Instagram

Snapchat

Tinder

Facebook

etc.

The slot machine is constant scroll to see what you WANT to see yet it not always like that.

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“Comparison is the thief of joy”— anonymous

Truth

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We might get on our phone once to look at one thing but there is always something else that distracts that makes us look at notifications then we go to an app or even text someone back, our phone continues to suck us in everyday even if we feel like we have control

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Not all “slot machines” were made on purpose

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Slot machine creates FOMO

Fear.

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That constant fear of missing out on something important keeps one connected and still due to that need to be ready at all times for something…even when that something is most likely nothing.

FOMO

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We always will and always have missed out on things events and conversations but now that we are seeing what we miss out on through social media it makes us feel even more left out

Hijacking 3

flavellem — 2024-10-16 16:53:19 UTC

The fear of missing out is natural but social media increases the fear and anxiety of missing something tenfold by being able to see the lives of those you do not talk to anymore

Social Approval

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The feeling of being @-ed or mentioned in a post or comment makes one feel the satisfaction of being thought about and being liked by others

Hijacking 4

flavellem — 2024-10-16 16:55:42 UTC

Social media can manipulate how long a post stays on someones feed so it sticks around longer and more people interact with it

Our feed

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Our feed is an echo chamber because it always comes back after someone comment likes or reposts so it just pulls us in a lot more

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People make less conscious decisions to do things like tag others. Suggestions are feed to you.

Echo Chamber

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Each time a video is watched, the more it becomes prevalent in the feed

In Control

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There are many different ways, unknown to the user, that apps like Facebook can display certain posts and actions to encourage more use of their app.

Hijack #4

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Suicide rates have gone up drastically since social media has come around.

Social media and Suicide

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the percentage of suicide has gon up drastically since social media has been around. Coincidence?

Hijack 5

flavellem — 2024-10-16 16:57:39 UTC

Social media can dictate our relationships with others with etiquette such as responding to text messages, or following someone back can define a relationship

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Social media forces people to feel as though they need to reply to messages, like others’ posts, comment compliments, etc. to get more users to use their app

Social pressure

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Must reciprocate actions on social media (follow people back, like someone else post after they like yours)

Linked In

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The social media wants you to keep coming back

Ex- Streaks or facebook likes

Suicide

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Suicide rates have gone up every since we’ve had so many social media platforms created because so many people especially young people tend to compare themselves to others and even fake people which effects our self image along with many people get bullied the most off social media because bullies are able to hide behind screens instead of being face to face. These bullies feel like they are protected by this else platforms causing more problems to happen

Unconscious Decisions

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Many actions can feel targeted to one user but be nothing but an unconscious decision to another.

Consciousness

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Most things are not conscious when on social media. Apps direct you into making that decision. Ie: friend suggestions, we think if someone adds us as a friend it’s their conscious decision but I reality it’s more than likely because a list of suggested friends was shown to them.

Pressure

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People feel obligated to reciprocate actions (likes, comments, shares) if one does so to the other. Doing this makes one feel as if there is a bond or connection amongst each other. Yet, if one does not act on those as another did—the feeling of animosity or the thoughts of one not liking someone comes into play.

Hijack

flavellem — 2024-10-16 17:01:49 UTC

You can trick people into consuming more, tech companies do the same thing with things like youtube autoplay.

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Social media keeps you wanting things by feeding them things automatically. Like a bottomless bowl of soup you will eat more

Hijack 6

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Social media like YouTube continues to feed us more videos even after finish watching a video we picked and now YouTube will even show us like 8 different videos at a time so then the viewers will get interested by seeing a picture or person them seem to interested in, and it just keeps going after every video

Constant Consuming

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The nonstop consuming of media keeps that consumer satisfied and more hooked to said app. It does this by the app taking data and actions that you act on when one is engaging on the app. Constant new suggestions are fed to the consumer to see make them more content when in reality the app is just giving more and more on ones feed to keep one addicted.

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We are given “autoplayed” content without consent, force-feeding attention-grabbing information that we never asked for.

Hijack #7: Interruption is good for business

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Interruption is good due to the need for the consumer to not want anything interrupting the main focus, making one willing to pay for the convenience. The need to keep going and going which lute more money in the pocket of the big corporations.

Social media designs

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Immediate interruptions make peoples want to look at an app. More urgency. (I.E. read receipts) drives social reciprocity

Interruption

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Messages use chat boxes to interrupt attention

Chat colors

Different Chat sounds

Hijack 7

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By interrupting someone with a message and or notification about video or shopping to pull us into different apps so we end up going through alll our apps

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Social media should have a “FDA,” an organization to make sure businesses are not taking advantage, using too much bias, or promoting unhealthy habits.

Positives

flavellem — 2024-10-16 17:07:58 UTC

Making argument positives of social media is inspiration, and harvests feelings of loving connections and social support

Social media impact

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Positives, we are able to connect around the world and even to friends to get closer

Positive

flavellem — 2024-10-16 17:08:39 UTC

Take away social media big business and enforce healthy apps that foster communication and healthy living

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Age limit on social media

Apps that fosters community and positive phycological aspects

Positives of Social Media

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loving connections
social support
young americans do digitally flourish when communicating and doing activities online
meeting people with the same interests and situations as one does being able to bond

Young americans

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We do flourish a lot better in technology along with comparisons that come from social media unlike older individuals

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Too much connection. Lack of privacy, societal pressure to keep up/post to stay socially aware

Positive

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relationships that usually go away becuase of distance are able to stay stable and strong with the connection through social media and FaceTime

Inspiration

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Social comparison can lead to inspiration and inspire others to divulge in positive trends and feel more motivated to engage in things in the real world instead of keeping themsleves in a bubble that tells one “I can’t do this 🙁” but instead says “ I CAN/ WANT to do this”.

+ positives

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Can lead to more connections and support

Thinking of social media from a more positive standpoint looking for solutions

Healthy tech use

-can lead to fulfillment

Young people flourish more online then older people

-young people connect more via social media

(Connect with someone with a similar background like an illness can connect via social media)

Positive content can make people feel more positive emotions

When adolescent compare themselves to people with similar demographic they can feel positive inspiration