The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher
by Max Fisher
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by Max Fisher
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We will start to realize that being chained to your mobile phone is a low-status behavior, similar to smoking.
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Slot machines leverage this psychological weakness to incredible effect. The unpredictability of payout makes it harder to stop. Social media does the same. Posting to Twitter might yield a big social payoff, in the form of likes, retweets, and replies. Or it might yield no reward at all. Never knowing the outcome makes it harder to stop pulling t
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Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imagine, for instance, that your network produces 200 posts a day of which you have time to read about 100. Because of the platform's tilt, you will see t
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