After reading the article, “The Future Well-Being in a Tech-Saturated World,” written by Pew Research Center discusses the big parts of social media harms. For example, the future well-being and digital life dramatically intertwined with our daily life over the last 20 years. The big themes that contribute to this certain type harmful environment is crucial intelligence and digital addiction that is often overlooked and turn into a negative way. Through my own eyes, the reasonable logic we must have in overcome the fake media is more harder than everyone thinks. The fake media contributes much to our addiction to making a toxic habit appeal more interesting such as “likes” and “followers” on social platforms. From my personal experience, social media throughout my early adolescence was hugely affected. Throughout the ages of 13-16, the “likes” that you received on social media like instagram was a “big deal”. The people that got less “likes under 100 weren’t considered “cool”. In the article, “The Future Well-Being in a Tech-Saturated World,” talks about the digital dangers that Tiziana Dearing a professor from Boston College School of Social Work talks about. “Because digital technology – from design to algorithms – has evolved without sufficient consideration of social empathy and inherent bias. ” (Pew Research Center). I think the algorithms that work into media likes affects more of the appealing hunger for follower gains and the addiction of getting to the social status you want. I greatly was affected from that mindset much of my life until I got out of that system.
The harmful environment created from the addiction of social media and crucial intelligence leads to much more risk of depression and lower self-esteem. A app that I feel like would help create a better standpoint for users is an app called “Mocha”. Mocha is an app that would connect the amount of times you allowed to view a social media post within 24 hours after you posted. The system would only allow you to click on the post hourly and be able to refresh the page after receiving likes from your post. Suggestions to go on other apps and activities near our local area would pop up on our phone to resist the temptation to click back onto your social post.
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