The Other Side of Social Media
Social Media
I want to talk about social media a little, and its effects on our brain. Hive.blog is a social media platform too but it isn't a one way street, you gain money and knowledge when you put your time and effort in here. I want to talk about the ones that takes your time but gives nothing in return.
What is the danger?
Some social media platforms like instagram uses algorithm to keep you engaged to the app so you spend your precious time on it. On the process you probably postpone the things you have to or want to do. Just like being hypnotized you just cant get out. Think about that happening everyday. Wouldn't postponing the things you have to do everyday affect your life on the long run? It can. And it does. If you watched the Netflix documentary Social Dilemma you know there are people who are in war with social media claiming it destroys people's free will.
That brings up the question of what is free will?
According to Britannica Free will, in humans, the power or capacity to choose among alternatives or to act in certain situations independently of natural, social, or divine restraints.
But because we are being manipulated to stay on these apps there really isn't a choice anymore. It has become something that we all are accustomed to do. We don't question it.
Free will has to involve some degree of creativity and unpredictability in how you respond to the world. That your future might be more than your past. That you might grow, you might change, you might discover. Now, the thing that counters that is when your reactions to the world are locked into a pattern that, by design, is making you more predictable – for the benefit of someone else.
-JARON LANIER
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The more i research and learn about this the more i feel like we have been victims to some big social experiment that gone terribly wrong. There are no sane specialists that protects participants from getting harmed. We are simply left alone.
So what can we do to protect ourselves? We need to take initiative in this. Maybe years from now governments will enact new laws to protect us from being exploited by these big companies. But by then we have to take control of our time.
― Andy Warhol
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The product Instagram etc. sells is gradual slight imperceptible change in your behaviour and perception (according to the documentary „the social dilemma“).
I know!And with that they can program our minds too, i believe staying away from those platforms is a must.
We must be honest and acknowledge that Hive is a social media too.
Although we are rewarded here this has its risk of being addictive as well. Also many times the rewards are not justifying the loss of time.
I think Hive best advantage is the transparancy. It looks not private at first glance but the visibility is symetrical. I mean in fb and other centralized you are under an illusion of privacy while your data is sold to god knows who.
Here you know your data is on the blockchain so you make your decisions with better understanding of the picture and in the long run I think it will support better ethics.
Also decentralization keeping us safe (theoretically but so far practically as well) from a single interest taking over.
I am very glad to see such a lovely person as yourself joining Hive. Welcome!
I thought about what you wrote too but aside from making money there is a feature of Hıve that , for me, distinguishes it from every other social app ; i actually learn new things here more comprehensively than any other social media platforms. Also you mentioned that fb sells our data to really god knows who. And the content you see at those platforms are always pretty much the same. You cant progress in that kind of environment.
Thank you so much for your informational comment and nice welcome :)