The Psychological Tricks Keeping You Online
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We take a look at persuasive design – and how good design persuades you every single day. When it comes to technology this can have some pretty big impacts of keeping us hooked to our devices. Should navigating this be your responsibility? Or should we call for more ethical design?
EPISODE THREE OUT NOW:
We’re in the middle of an Attention War – where big tech battle it out to win over our eyeballs. Our attention spans are considered a precious—and scarce—commodity. So what is the price of your attention? In this mini-series, we’ll explore the psychology, design and impact of tech and social media on both ourselves and society. A new episode will be released every Friday for the next six weeks.
Thank you to Jaron Lanier and Nir Eyal for lending their expertise to this episode.
If you’re after further reading, check out Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now:
And Hooked by Nir Eyal:
Videos worth a watch:
BJ Fogg, Tiny surprises for happiness and health
Facebook Founder Warns of Social Media Addiction
This mini-series was created by:
Vanessa Hill – Director, Presenter, Co-Producer
Margie Bryant – Producer
Aline Jacques – Post Producer
Bahar Gholipour – Associate Producer
Dominique Taylor – Editor
Stephen Boyle – Legal and Business Affairs
James Hutson – Animator
Field Producers – Bahar Gholipour, Georgia Quinn, Mehrnaz Farahmand
Crew – Finn Boyle-Moore, Jacques Lang, Tim Oxford, Trace Dominquez, Alex Rapine, Andy Kulikowski, Angelina Bruno
John Hresc – Sound Mix
Andrew Arbuthnot – Investment Manager, Screen Australia
Adam Dylewski – Programming Director, PBS Digital Studios
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tl;dw it’s a good idea to turn off auto play on YouTube, limit notifications to what you really care about, and even bundle apps that are not essential tools (like maps or messages) and move them to the second page of your phone screen. I installed an app called Moment and it was surprising — I knew I spent a good amount of time on my phone, but some days I was spending 4 hours on apps that aren’t really necessary. That’s a LOT of my attention.
So, if good design nudges your behaviour every single day — in the case of technology, should companies tell you what those design tricks are? Should design be more ethical? Or is it your responsibility to navigate?
Your videos and this series are just fabulous. Thanks for helping us to understand the social media strategies and specially Facebook 🙂 👏😀😀
i couldn't agree more with the "limit notifications" and "turn off autoplay" options.
The rest I also agree with, but those two messages should be standard guidelines at any elementary school and with parenting.
I logged out of my instagram account 4 days ago and they've already sent me two emails trying to get me to come back… I was pretty shocked!
I deactivated Facebook about 5 days ago indefinitely, and this video made me chuckle.
Took me a while to understand what is happening, and I am a software engineer working with algorithms.
I was posting 10 things each day, spending at least 2-3 hours a day on social media.
At least remove the most toxic ones, Twitter, Reddit and Youtube are left.
That soundfilter at 5:05 was highly unnessecary. For a moment you got me worring that my headphones were done for.
The mindless masses. people have no direction and tsocial media provides a means to fill the void. People use to be consumed at just survival. We also have no sense of community ans socislp media fulfills that void too. It is simple. Let loose mor sabertooth tigers……..
There's actually a movement to move back to dumb phones recently, probably for reasons discussed here.
I turn off all my notifications for most apps. But guess what… Facebook doesn't allow you to turn off your notifications permanently. No, no, no. They will reactivate in 8 hours automatically. Because of this I have to put my entire phone on silent, and potentially miss important calls.
I got a facebook and use it for about two or three minute before it bored me. I don't get what is so addicting about it.
Notifications annoy me. It's an almost OCD response in that anything with a red notification needs to be removed. I always turn off push notifications on apps that allow me to. It's the least helpful feature on smart phones for me.
Ending with FindShadow was a cunning psychological trick that I'm happy to say worked marvelously.
I turned off notifications for social media and emails a while ago and it helps. However when I do get around to looking (too often!) I still end up falling down the thumb scroll rabbit hole 🙁
honestly sometimes theres literally nothing to watch on youtube but i just keep fucking scrolling and refreshing without any goal
I had this in the background while doing other stuff, promptly noticed the irony and I'll continue with the next episode later
just great information from credible sources, thank you so much for spreading it to the masses! quick sub.
Thank you so much for this series!
Muchas gracias 🙂 soy adicta, tratando de dejar el teléfono. Tos vídeos me ayudan bastante.
Great video, great message!
Interesting thanks. I also recommend using a non smart phone!
YouTube rabbit hole is very real. Especially when I was younger.
I like how the hand was brown you racist fucks
this is why i deleted my facebook.
The social media and entertainment industry would like to have you program to consume, consume, and enslave you = a brainwashing machine—and the monkey press the button
By commenting or giving a thumbs up, you just agreed to be blocked by most large corporations using psychoanalytic companies. 🤔