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Category Archives: Social media
ARGUMENT THREE: SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING YOU INTO AN ASSHOLE
SOOTY SNOW
You are more vulnerable when you get addicted.
You will become a poor or little snowflake.
MEETING MY INNER TROLL
The author said BUMMER causes two extremes, be an asshole or be very careful.
THE MYSTERIOUS NATURE OF ASSHOLE AMPLIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
we need to be solitary wolves rather than wolves in packs. When we are in the pack, we cannot think individuality, but in a group cult.
THE MOST MASTERFUL MASTER SWITCH
Rather than Facebook or Twitter, LinkedIn built a high… ...➔➔➔
Connection
Hold my hand
I’m real powerless to fight
Can you lead me to the light?
My strenght has come to fear
Fled in truth of dawn
Curious as a day
My heart huh woah oh
Can you bring me back to life?
Ignite the fire again?
Can you bring me back home where I am not alone?
I’m lost inside, the night and I cannot find you
Bring me back
Meet me at the levee
All the tears I’ve shed
Before it brights upon my head oh uh oh
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Ignite the fire again?
Can you bring me back
ARGUMENT TWO: QUITTING SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE MOST FINELY TARGETED WAY TO RESIST THE INSANITY OF OUR TIMES
THE BUMMER MACHINE
The better analogy for social media is paint contains lead in a house.
BUMMER: “Behaviors of Users Modified, and Made into an Empire for Rent”
THE PARTS THAT MAKE UP THE BUMMER MACHINE
Ais for Attention Acquisition leading to Asshole supremacy: this makes people online all nasty.
B Information and data always being recorded.
The BUMMER machine also makes the tech giant stronger, and it also creates a fake world.
THE PROBLEM IS LIMITED, SO WE CAN CONTAIN IT
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ARGUMENT ONE: YOU ARE LOSING YOUR FREE WILL
WELCOME TO THE CAGE THAT GOES EVERYWHERE WITH YOU
We are remotely controlled like animals in cages. We even don’t know that.
THE MAD SCIENTIST TURNS OUT TO CARE ABOUT THE DOG IN THE CAGE
The silicon valley gradually realizes the problem, but we cannot wait for them to solve this problem.
Carrot and shtick
Not only the pleasing kind, but punishment can also play an important role in addiction.
THE ALLURE OF MYSTERY
The algorithm is fitted with the human brain because the brain… ...➔➔➔