The tycoon's of social media have to stop pretending that they're friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they're just tobacco farmers in T. shirts.
Selling an addictive product to children.Because let's face it checking your likes is the new smoking Philip Morris just wanted your lungs the apps store once your soul.
There are more than two billion people on Facebook that's more than the number it's about the number of notional followers of Christianity people check their phones a hundred and fifty times a day the millennial sort of audience and so if you think about it from the moment you wake up it's like you're jacked in this environment and thought start streaming into your head designed by a few technology companies.
We find is the typical person checks her phone every fifteen minutes or less and half of the time to check the phone there's no alert no notification it's coming from inside their head telling them she I haven't checked in Facebook awhile I haven't checked on this Twitter feed for a while I wonder if somebody commented on my Instagram post that been generates cortisol and it starts to make you anxious and eventually your goal is to get rid of that anxiety so you check in and apparently we feel stressed when we can't get our phone or when our batteries about to die.
You probably know this feeling.
And a research done in Australia I'm on three thousand people under the age of thirty.Found that nine out of every ten it's meets to feel the sting site the while having his battery dying.Steve Jobs revolutionized the entire world with the I. from.And he never let his children use.Because he did not want them dependent on technology.Right now everything is getting their first laptop that's soft and squishy and makes noise.Right now a child is being born online and being favorite.
Generational segregation about time is Chris are unhealthy and historically unprecedented. You've never seen the like of people sit at a table in a restaurant not talking to each other because the texting and using their Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and they are they are at the table and don't even know each other.
In the house you can't even talk to each other and the question is everybody else is so great that everybody trusted meals like that in the reality show.
As a culture we don't have enough in common anymore and that's because the internet which was supposed to unite the world has become too adept at serving us personalise content.
Do you know what I saw on Yahoo's front page this morning no you don't because mine isn't the same as yours people get news feeds now that just spit back customize stories based on what we've clicked on in the back.
Right now influencers in courage narcissism without knowing the brass death of their impact on their audiences.
Right now forty thousand spectators argued Olympic football arena watching a competitive sports competition.
Because this is this generation's football match.
There's always.
Knowledge is neutral it's up to us to choose how we use it this is just not true technology is not neutral it's not neutral.
They want you to use that particular way and for long periods of time because that's how they make their money.
You don't realize it but you are the program.It was unintentional.
Now you've got to decide how much you're willing to give up how much of your Intellectual.If you feed the beast that beast will destroy.If you push back on it we.have a chance to control it rainy day.And it is a point in time where people need to heart break from some of these tools and the things that you rely on
The short term dopamine driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works.
No civil discourse no cooperation misinformation mistruths.
It's not an American problem this is not about Russian.This is a global problem.
Don't. Let your phone and social media control you.
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