The Social Dilemma by Grant Cotterell https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s en-us 2020-03-02 22:33:30 UTC 2025-08-07 21:21:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537945625 "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." Companies are here to collect our data, and that's how they make money.

]]> 2025-08-07 16:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537945625 https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537945898 Email is addicting, as well as social media and cell phone notifications.

2 billion people will have thoughts they didn't intend to have every morning because of notifications.


Communication has become manipulation. And there is no benefit for people. It's about money and data for profit.

Tech companies have studied the Psychology of persuasion.

Scrolling is an unconscious habit similar to using slot machines at a casino!



]]> 2025-08-07 16:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537945898 https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537949738 August 13th, Youtube is rolling out an algorithm that will detect if users are kids. If it is incorrect, they will require ID to verify our age. This is the counterintuitive direction the conversation is going. By discussing the danger on children, they are now enabling the collection of more intense data. Utah pushed laws for age verification for all social media. This is an issue that requires far more nuance than it is offered.

]]> 2025-08-07 16:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537949738 https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537953498 You are able to turn off the "tagged photo" notifications but you have to go to the notifications center to do it. There are frequently new features that are added and we are all automatically opted in to receiving the notifications. Example- instagram now has a "friends map" like snapchat does. It just started this week.


]]> 2025-08-07 17:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537953498 https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537955856 The opposite of "Consumption" is "Creation." I find the best tool for me to break out of the addictive cycle is to be creating. Creation also happens to be one of the highest levels of learning.

]]> 2025-08-07 17:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537955856 https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537958067 We were evolved to care about what those in our tribe thinks. We were not evolved to care about what 10,000 people think of us.

]]> 2025-08-07 17:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537958067 https://padlet.com/gcotterell/wc8yph1qhv3s/wish/3537960818 I think kids recognize the addiction and the problems of social media. They usually just get frustrated when it appears like name-calling and finger pointing. Our discussion on "empathy" towards them is going to be important as we begin this policy.

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