LearnDay@Xoxzo is a monthly online seminar initiated by the Xoxzo team, which is open to the public. We will have speakers from the team or guest speakers who will talk for 20 minutes each, on a subject of their choice. For this LearnDay, we have 2 speakers: 1. Jugaad Innovation" by Surya 2, "How Social Media is Controlling Your Life and What Can You Do About It" by Geraldo ** Disclaimer ** The views and opinions expressed in this slide do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Xoxzo Inc. The video for our LearnDays can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiV-bQprArQxKBSzaKY1vQg If you're interested in joining us or present your own material during our LearnDay, send us an email at empower@xoxzo.com and follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/xoxzocom/ LearnDay@Xoxzo #25 2020-11-27

1. How Social Media is
Controlling Your Life
and What Can You Do About It

2. “Statistically, the majority of evil
things happen out of ignorance - and
not out of evil itself”.

3. How much do we really know about
the effects of current technology?

4. Attention

5. Attention
Information

6. Attention
Information
Privacy

7. Attention
Information
Privacy
Free-will

8. Attention
Information
Privacy
Free-will

9. ATTENTION

10. “If you think about it, our attention is the only
thing we truly own in our lives. Our possessions
can go away. Our bodies can be compromised.
Our relationships can fall apart. Even our
memories and intellectual capacity fade away.
But the simple ability to choose what to focus
on — that will always be ours.”
Mark Manson

12. According to researchers, when you get a social media
notification, your brain sends dopamine along a
reward pathway, which makes you feel good. It’s the same
chemical associated with food, exercise, love, sex, gambling, drugs.

15. What’s the problem?

16. Rewire of the brain

17. Social media provides immediate rewards
— in the form of attention from your network
and acquisition of information— for minimal
effort through a quick thumb tap. Therefore, the
brain rewires itself to balance the equation of
low effort = high reward(just like drugs).

18. Attention pollution

19. “ It’s attention pollution when
somebody else’s inability to focus or
control themselves then interferes with
the attention and focus of those around
them.”
Mark Manson

21. Inspiration and Creativity

22. “Boredom is the mother of all
invention.”
Plato

23. “The cure for cancer can wait, I really need to check these cat memes first”

24. “Inspiration and lack of distraction is
the same thing.”

25. INFORMATION

26. Algorithms are not designed to give
you the best experience.
Algorithms are designed to deliver ads.

27. Rule of thumb:
“If you are not paying, you are not the
customer: you are the product”

28. Ads, like opinions, are always
partial

29. The truth is never partial

30. By tracking and tailoring your news
feed to show things you are interested,
it create echo chambers that obscure
objective truth.

32. To sum up...

33. The problem is big

34. The problem is big
There is no proper regulation

35. The problem is big
There is no proper regulation
There is no proportional responsibility

36. The problem is big
There is no proper regulation
There is no proportional responsibility
There is no education and etiquette

38. Short-range solutions

39. Deactivate all notifications

40. Deactivate all notifications
Think of ethics and etiquette

41. Deactivate all notifications
Think of ethics and etiquette
Designate time for phones

42. Deactivate all notifications
Think of ethics and etiquette
Designate time for phones
Don’t use social feeds: use search bars

43. Deactivate all notifications
Think of ethics and etiquette
Designate time for phones
Don’t use social feeds: use search bars
Have a conscious approach to your apps

44. Deactivate all notifications
Think of ethics and etiquette
Designate time for phones
Don’t use social feeds: use search bars
Have a conscious approach to your apps
Actively search different POVs

45. Deactivate all notifications
Think of ethics and etiquette
Designate time for phones
Don’t use social feeds: use search bars
Have a conscious approach to your apps
Actively search different POVs
Move for quality over quantity

46. Deactivate all notifications
Think of ethics and etiquette
Designate time for phones
Don’t use social feeds: use search bars
Have a conscious approach to your apps
Actively search different POVs
Move for quality over quantity
Be bored