'Why social media is not the problem’ with Timandra Harkness

[@squashfan9526]

I'm about to watch this video. Just noticed there are no comments yet, two days after posting. Why is that I wonder?

[@endintiers]

I have a policy of never buying anything for which I have received targeted advertising. This improves the quality of my 'stuff'.

[@chippysteve4524]

Before Adblock was a thing,I would intentionally search the web for products I wasn't interested in so as not to be distracted by interesting ads when online.Incontinence pants,concrete sheds,agricultural machinery.Oh no,I've said too much.Back to the panic room.

[@chippysteve4524]

There is a quite fruitful TED talk where the speaker talks about the 6 neurochemicals considered essential for mental wellbeing/health. 3 of which can be 'released' even if living in total isolation and 3 which are only released/produced within a social context. I feel that even a cursory awareness of that research would greatly inform this talk i.e. our neurochemical need for what we would nebulously term respect,love,status. Another omission here seems to me to be,as an increasingly isolated, domesticated and emasculated species;our opportunities to build and share a corpus of useful knowledge from our endeavours and our ability to genuinely achieve meaningful goals for ourselves and others are greatly reduced,thus depriving us of our chances to obtain 3 of these essential neurochemicals. It is now widely known that social media sites employ 'dopamine engineers' - the same people who are employed by bookmakers and casinos,precisely because they know how to push our buttons,as it were,cynically preying on this innate human dependency. To me it seems that if our species is to survive this century,one of our main objectives should be to raise awareness of our INHERENT weaknesses in order to get our social fixes in healthier,meaningful ways and just as importantly to learn how to survive propaganda and polarisation. We are demonstrably becoming increasingly tribal like football hooligans,irrational and willfully ignorant of anything outside the dogma of our individual tribes and preferred sources of disinformation. IMHO,the global rise of far right populism which is,of course, intellectually and morally repugnant will also be inevitable if we don't both individually and collectively pull our heads out of the place where the sun doesn't shine and reclaim our brains and reinvent society through use of public spaces. I found it quite informative that Timandra completely ignored the backstory of Cambridge Analytica and their former and current client list.I would advise watching the documentary film "The great hack" for context and to illustrate that there is very little about the abuse of social media which is an inoccuous as this discussion suggests.

[@faigelable]

28:52 Breaking the Fourth Wall in a Lecture O.O I've never felt so naked

[@tamtrinh174]

why "why"?

[@zavierlee695]

Well guess I better drop a commennt

[@deimonslagg1187]

Social media doesn't screw up people, people screw up people.

[@sknova88]

social media makes it easy though

[@thewuggening9993]

what does it mean for a system made for people to be screwed up by the presence of people, though?

[@eqapo]

If she debated jonathan haidt, she'd get crushed.