Opening Insights: The Intentional Consequences of Social Media
Kids are out of control with ADD/ADHD or completely detached with Autism or Aspergers. What is the common denominator, in many cases SCREEN TIME.
Screen time gives parents a break, but what is it doing to the brains of children... and what has it done / is it doing to the brains of millennials and older generations? The reality is that the effects of social media are INTENDED and DELIBERATE as stated by Sean Parker, cofounder of Napster and the first President of Facebook.
Informational Insights: Social Media is Turning Children into Junkies
Sean Parker, who played a pivotal role in turning Facebook into a money-minting juggernaut, admits that he is now “something of a conscientious objector” to the social networking giant.
Facebook “literally changes your relationship with society, with each other,” Parker told Axios in a Wednesday interview. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”
The 38-year-old tech tycoon — whose hardball exploits as Facebook’s first president were depicted in Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 Hollywood flick “The Social Network” — said Facebook is designed to exploit “a vulnerability in human psychology” to get its users addicted.
“The inventors, creators — it’s me, it’s Mark [Zuckerberg], it’s Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it’s all of these people — understood this consciously,” he said. “And we did it anyway.”
Parker, who is now founder and chair of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, explained that Facebook uses likes and shares to create a “social-validation feedback loop” that keeps users coming back.
“We need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever,” Parker said. “And that’s going to get you to contribute more content, and that’s going to get you … more likes and comments.”
Parker said he never anticipated the consequences of what would happen when Facebook grew to have 2 billion monthly users.
In its first few years, Parker said, people would tell him they didn’t use social media, and he would assure them that they would join the fold sooner or later.
“The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, … was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’” he said.
https://nypost.com/2017/11/09/sean-parker-on-facebook-we-created-a-monster/
Possibilities for Consideration: Correcting the Problem Before It's TOO LATE
As human beings can we afford to turn a blind eye to the realities of what is happening in our world today. As technology is used to manipulate us, rather than empower us, automation becomes standard and our children are disappearing into the fantasy and illusions deliberately created to distract and control our perceptions, attitudes, thinking, feeling and behaviors. Are we going to continue to stand idly by, numb and powerless, OR WILL WE UNITE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROBLEM – NOW?!
- What if there is a way to help our children and world find relief from addictions, mental and emotional traumas that is drug free and evidence-based?
- What if there is a way to reverse our learned behaviors and social conditioning to discover the freedom to be and live with ourselves and others?
- What if there is a way to effectively assess, discern and reverse the long-term effects of drug usage on the brain?
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When the cost of the problem is greater than the cost of the solution,
Change is possible and probable.