Algorithmic social media is stealing your joy and may be making your life dramatically worse. If you haven't watched The Social Dilemma, you probably should sit down and give it a view, especially if you have kids.

Advertising + Algorithm

Misalignment of incentives

Business model in which incentive is to find customers ready to pay to modify someone else's behavior

 

The Algorithm
Get you to the app and keep you there

Movie Social Dilemma gets it Wrong

Negative trumps positive

Dopamine hit

Addictive, but mostly shallow or perhaps b/c of shallowness
Tribalism & Mob Behavior
Magnification of Fringe Views

Makes assholes more assholey

Attention is the reward on social media, and assholery gets the most attention
Loss of Objective Reality
 
Individual Apps
Facebook
The Worst!!!

A bunch of you are there so EMCrit has to announce new episodes there
Instagram
Just as evil
Reddit
 
Twitter
Sponsored Tweets

Built to inflict misery and turn people into assholes

Reub--bring it to Reddit

Twitter happiness feed
Youtube
Turn off "Up Next"
TikTok
Insanely addictive
Netflix
Algorithm with the right incentives
The News
Algorithm

If you can't change it, don't regard it as important
Google
not just creating an echo chamber

but actually sculpting Truth based on a political agenda

* Switching over to Hey Email
* DuckDuckGo

RSS
The way to have social media goodness come to you
Turn off Notifications
for any social media and for anything else possible
If you have kids, avoid social media until ~16
Jonathan Haidt

More Stuff to Check Out

* How to go from being an Ass-hole to an AYS-hole on Twitter
* 7 Ways to be Insufferable on Facebook
* How to Use RSS and Itunes to Maximize FOAM Podcasts
* The Online Hierarchy of Needs - Social Media and FOAM

Please ReRead 1984

Now on to the Podcast...