Status Updates From Digitaler Minimalismus: Bes...

Intro & ch1- social media & modern technology weren’t invented to be harmful, & they have their uses- but at this point they’re carefully funded & designed to automate human behavior. They utilize unpredictable rewards in the form of notifications just when you’re losing interest, & our innate desire to maintain social status & have our “tribe” like us. The bit about tags was rly interesting

Enjoyed this, made me think

“As the negative studies imply, he more you use social media the less time you tend to devote to offline interaction…leaving the heaviest social media users much more likely to be lonely and miserable.”