Post Acp9HBk2MZ8dsrn30i by samebchase@fantastic.earth
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(DIR) Post #Acp9HApJlRlh2xFkbQ by abesamma@toolsforthought.social
2023-12-15T05:18:51Z
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The end of the attention economy and addictive UI design? YouTube shorts, Instagram reels and Tiktok will have to be completely redesigned to comply with this. Frankly, I couldn't be happier that this is happening. Designs that hijack people's evolutionary weaknesses are deplorable. Big tobacco, big casinos, candy crush, Tiktok, they're all the same. #ethics #design
(DIR) Post #Acp9HBk2MZ8dsrn30i by samebchase@fantastic.earth
2023-12-15T05:32:31Z
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@abesamma We look back a few decades where smoking was as common and socially acceptable as drinking coffee. Hope we reach that level of awareness with digital addictions as well.
(DIR) Post #AcpBnbyYYn8OQHAa3s by abesamma@toolsforthought.social
2023-12-15T05:36:13Z
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@samebchase in a way, we have already an acceptable level of awareness amongst adults. It's the youngsters that are the biggest victims in this whole saga. It's no surprise that for most of these apps, the biggest demographic groups and targeted segments in internal KPIs are young people and children. Legislation is needed to address that in exactly the same manner we tackled as a society unscrupulous e-cigarette companies like Juul.
(DIR) Post #AcpBnpfZeAGitSOcPw by abesamma@toolsforthought.social
2023-12-15T05:41:32Z
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@samebchase Juul did a lot of damage in places like the UK where children as young as ten are now hooked on to e-cigarettes and smoke oh so openly without a care in the world. The colours are attractive, it's instagrammable (God I hate that word) and it makes them feel accomplished even as they open to the doors to potentially debilitating medical conditions in the future. Likewise I feel very strongly that Tiktok is inflicting a great deal of damage on young minds in barely known ways.