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Course: Social media literacy > Unit 4
Lesson 3: How does social media impact our behavior?Reflection activity: Redesigning to respect the brain
What would better social media look like?
Reflection activity
🤔 CONSIDER:
The features of social media discussed in the previous article show how social media prioritizes profit for tech companies over being sensitive to the intricacies of our brains or the potential impacts on our mental health.
Keeping in mind what you’ve learned about cognitive biases, what would be different about social media if it was designed to respect our brains’ vulnerabilities?
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Less content about beauty standards would be forced into our faces(3 votes)
I do 1 hour phone time(2 votes)- It would be great if social media respected our brains(2 votes)
There would be a lot of different things about social media if it was designed to respect our brain's vulnerabilities. There would be a lot less notifications on your device and when you do get them it would probably only be about urgent things about the app not about some new post. There wouldn't be this endless scrolling that makes you just want more it probably wouldn't even be a feature at all. Social media wouldn't be collecting any data from you after you sign up. If social media was designed to respect our brains vulnerabilities it would be more of a novelty a place where you can post something from time to time rather than an app that you use everyday just to mindlessly scroll away to waste time.(2 votes)
If social media was designed to respect our brains' vulnerabilities, it would limit the amount of content you could see in a day so you don't end up endlessly scrolling. It also wouldn't have an algorithm that studies and collects data from you and uses it to recommend videos it thinks you will stay on the website for. It could also put less focus on comparing people's looks as well as videos showing everything wrong with the world and why everything sucks.(2 votes)
At11:23PM, limiting the time on social media should help. Why is it considered ok to attack us where they know we are vulnerable?(2 votes)
Wow, great question(1 vote)
It would have helped us learn more valuable information which couldn't be learnt otherwise .(2 votes)- Less content about beauty standards would be forced into our faces(1 vote)
a thing that would be different about social media if it were to designed to respect our brains vulnerabillities is it would limit the things we see or post online.(1 vote)- Less content about beauty standards would be forced into our faces(1 vote)
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