It was mentioned in passing that the book discussed how social media shapes the brain to be more judgmental, and it was read after Lauren deleted her social media.
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I was reading on this book five or seven arguments are deleting social media I read this after I deleted it and like there's one part was talking about like social media usage like shapes your brain t...
— Episode: How Social Media Ruined My Life
Episode: How Social Media Ruined My Life
It was mentioned in passing that the book discussed how social media shapes the brain to be more judgmental, and it was read after Lauren deleted her social media.
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I was reading on this book five or seven arguments are deleting social media I read this after I deleted it and like there's one part was talking about like social media usage like shapes your brain to like be more judgmental and like that's like your snap reaction is to judge people and like size them up and like criticize them because like that's how you view social media you view social media with a critical lens and like find a flaw and like you're training your brain like that's how I want to observe and like analyze and think about things
It was discussed as a warning against the manipulative practices of social media companies, emphasizing the threat to free will and the erosion of shared reality through personalized feeds.
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I don't think social media in some broad sense is necessarily bad. I don't think it has to be bad forever.
— Episode: 156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplu...
Episode: 156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Soc...
It was discussed as a warning against the manipulative practices of social media companies, emphasizing the threat to free will and the erosion of shared reality through personalized feeds.
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I don't think social media in some broad sense is necessarily bad. I don't think it has to be bad forever.
I think that there's this business model that makes it bad and so people can connect together in things like social media very positively.
We're in a cage, we're being watched, manipulated and analyzed while inside this cage.
Social media can manipulate your behavior and it puts your free will under threat.
If triggering emotions is the highest prize and negative emotions are easier to trigger, how could social media not make you sad?
Episode: 101: How to Stop Your Friend from Texting and Driv...
It was suggested as a potential read for a friend who was constantly on her phone and potentially addicted to it, in order to help her evaluate her digital habits.
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maybe just go buy her a copy of ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now from jaren linier because she definitely needs to do that because you got this ridiculous it's ridiculous
Episode: 156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Soc...
It was discussed in depth, focusing on the manipulation of users' behaviour and the negative effects it has on mental health, free will, and society.
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I don't think social media in some broad sense is necessarily bad I don't think it has to be bad forever I think that there's this business model that makes it bad
If each person has a personalized feed and this is very important that's calculated to manipulate that person that's calculated to change the behavior patterns of that person and make no mistake if that wasn't going on Facebook would be bankrupt
when Facebook proves it can make people sad or when Facebook proves it can repress a vote or you know these are things that's published as as scientific papers the people couldn't have pulled that they that it was happening to them nobody ever detected it
if triggering emotions is the highest prize and negative emotions are easier to trigger how could social media not make you sad if your consumption of content is tailored by near limitless observations harvested about people like you how could your universe not collapse into the partial depiction of reality that people like you also enjoy
What makes a platform bad is that it's optimized for third parties who are paying out of a belief that they can change your behavior
Episode: 101: How to Stop Your Friend from Texting and Driv...
It was suggested as a potential read for a friend who was excessively glued to her phone, in an attempt to encourage her to reduce her social media use.
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maybe just go buy her a copy of ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now from jaren linier because she definitely needs to do that
Episode: 156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Soc...
It was discussed multiple times, with the central theme that social media companies are manipulating users' behavior for profit, and how this can be harmful to individuals and society.
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I don't think social media in some broad sense is necessarily bad. I don't think it has to be bad forever.
I think that there's this business model that makes it bad and so people can connect together in things like social media very positively.
What's happened with kind of mainstream social media is that it's been taken over by this advertising paradigm and what that means is anytime two people connect it's financed by some third person who wants to manipulate those people.
The whole system because that's the only way anybody makes money, the whole system becomes optimized for addiction, manipulation, sneaky, mistrickingness.
If you look at examples where you don't have everything optimized for these third parties who believe they can manipulate you, it doesn't have to be that way.
Episode: 101: How to Stop Your Friend from Texting and Driv...
It was suggested as a book that could help a friend who was constantly on their phone, as they may need to consider deleting their social media accounts.
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maybe just go buy her a copy of ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now from jaren linier because she definitely needs to do that because you got this ridiculous it's ridiculous
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