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Social Media Addiction
This is my notes about Social Media, and especially about the bad side of it, the addiction.
# The Bad: Big Tech Makes Money
How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day and how Big Tech is dangerous.
- Best neuroscientists working at big tech to make us addicted
- Tristan Harris : How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | TED Talk
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How to Make Learning as Addictive as Social Media by Luis Von Ahn
- Duolingo has sophisticated AI to send notifications to send you when you mostly likely to use the app again. But they could save their algoritmh almost, as the best time is: 24h after you use it last. As you were free yesterday at 5 PM, you are most probably also free the next day that time.
- The Research Experiment That Saved Me From Scrolling (& Learn to Love Reading Again)
# How much time We Spend, on Average
Free time:
Screen Time (mostly Social Media):
Source: above youtube video
# What the Different Platforms Say
In The Battle for Your Time: Exposing the Costs of Social Media, Dino Ambrosi says:
- Snapchat: doesn’t matter what you send, as long as frequent
- Twitter: Everything can be compacted in a few words. The world is simple
- Instagram: the world is defined by how you look and what you do on vacation. The most precious moments are meant to be uploaded, instead of spending them with the most precious people
It’s the opposite of a Books, where the structure defined the world as complex.
# How it Usually Starts
When you stop reading, you stop writing.
When you stop writing, you stop thinking.
When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.
When you stop feeling, you stop believing.
When you stop believing, you stop building.
When you stop building, you stop bettering.
When you stop bettering, you stop caring.
When you stop caring, you stop living.
When you stop living, you start scrolling.
When you start scrolling, you start laying around.
When you start laying around, you start zoning out.
When you start zoning out, you start numbing down.
When you start numbing down, you start giving up.
When you start giving up, you start blending in.
When you start blending in, you start fading out.
When you start fading out, you start disappearing.
And when you finally disappear, there’s really nothing left to say. Source: Tom White - White Noise
# Screen time and Digital well Being: Tipps
# YouTube Watch History
Turn off Watch History and you won’t get influenced by the algorithm:
Learned from
Smartphones and being present | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman’s blog
# Block Social Media
See more on Block Social Media on Phone and Computer. Making your phone a Dumb Phone.
My Strategies to get out distraction, and Focus.
# Avoid FOMO
As you might miss out on things not being on social meida, Matt D’Avella did a great thing, he installed a email for tips of ideas. So in case he misses out, someone will tell him. That’s only work if you have some following online, but I like this idea.
# Further Reads
- Finding Flow: Escaping Digital Distractions Through Deep Work and Slow Living
- Nature: Flourishes creativity and Turn off, shut down, re-energize
- Dumb Phone: Smartphones and being present | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman’s blog
- Denmark to ban social media for children under 15
- Welcome to Hotel Zuckerberg: A film that shows just how low a bar we set for safety and accountability in the digital world by Paul Raffile.
Origin:
Finding Flow: Escaping Digital Distractions Through Deep Work and Slow Living | ssp.sh
References: Finding Flow
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