Cruel optimism, social media and big tech

Exploring the intersection how big tech uses cruel optimism to respond to criticism re social media and mobile tech stealing our attention — and including the perspective of people who rely on social media for a living. Do they truly believe in it?

Francesco

Digital Marketing as a field is competitive.

Rashmi Rao • Social Media Addiction—A Digital Pandemic Amongst Digital Marketers

exactly why many marketers simply feel like there is no escaping offering social media as service, even when they can see how harmful it can be

Digital devices discretely hijack our attention. To the extent that you cannot perceive the world around you in its fullness, to the same extent you will fall back into mindless, repetitive, self-reinforcing behavior, unable to escape.

Richard E. Cytowic • Your Brain on Screens - The American Interest

This is such a huge topic that’s so difficul to summarise in a few words so when I saw this, it was like, wow, that’s it. That’s the problem!

The Erosion of Deep Literacy

Adam Garfinkle nationalaffairs.com

Marketing can be tricky during times of distress. It calls for an emphatic overtone, even if it means to fake some.

Even with their workforce being let go without an interim notice, it feels disconnected to see their social media page of a certain organization’s gregariously and shamelessly perpetuating employee happiness and well being.

Rashmi Rao • Social Media Addiction—A Digital Pandemic Amongst Digital Marketers

how do marketers feel when they’re perpetuating a problematic version of reality for the sake of growth/engagement/damage control?

Is Digital detox for social media managers is the impossible dream?

reddit.com

Marketers who are afraid of becoming addicted to social media use giving each other simplistic, purely personal solutions to a problem they themselves have a hand in

Fully immerse yourself in digital "life," and timelines will flatten into unconnected dots, rendering a person present-oriented and unable to either remember or plan well. That permanently "zoned out" person will become easy prey for the next demagogue with an attractive promise and a mesmerizing spectacle.

Adam Garfinkle • The Erosion of Deep Literacy

How distracted users turn into easy prey for those looking to overturn democracy

Advertising and marketing have ruined society, the internet is just one of a l... | Hacker News

oliveshell news.ycombinator.com

If you look at the 10 largest companies in the world, half of them are trying to create this addictive relationship to technology. The days when the dealer in addiction had to hide in the shadows are over. They now operate freely in your home, and every other sphere of your life.

Mark Schaefer • Who's responsible for social media addiction? Me and you. - Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}

we’re living in a black mirror episode

when every social media marketer is creating addiction and profiting from it, the cumulative effort is the root of the global problem

Mark Schaefer • Who's responsible for social media addiction? Me and you. - Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}

one marketer alone can claim that their work, the content they put out won’t have any meaningful impact on social media addition and the fact that we’re all losing focus. But 100-10.000 marketers?

Rashmi Rao • Social Media Addiction—A Digital Pandemic Amongst Digital Marketers

Richard E. Cytowic • Your Brain on Screens - The American Interest

The Erosion of Deep Literacy

Rashmi Rao • Social Media Addiction—A Digital Pandemic Amongst Digital Marketers

Is Digital detox for social media managers is the impossible dream?

Adam Garfinkle • The Erosion of Deep Literacy

Advertising and marketing have ruined *society*, the internet is just one of a l... | Hacker News

Mark Schaefer • Who's responsible for social media addiction? Me and you. - Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}

Mark Schaefer • Who's responsible for social media addiction? Me and you. - Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}

Advertising and marketing have ruined society, the internet is just one of a l... | Hacker News