When you have no money to buy a product, you are the product being sold. Various social media are competing to attract your attention. The customers of social media such as Douyin are advertisers, your attention is the product, and further, your cognitive and behavioral changes are the product. The goals of companies such as Douyin are: 1 is an engagement goal to get your attention; 2 is a growth goal to expand users. And increasing your engagement requires “positive reinforcement,” a technologist who understands persuasion techniques, and leverages the “psychology of growth hacking.” Just like a magician uses your subconscious, predicts your behavior based on your data, uses your psychological weaknesses, hacks into your psychology, seduces you, manipulates you, and uses you. The pre-judgment model of social media has created an information cocoon, where specific information is presented to specific groups of people, resulting in the spread of manipulative speech, causing the public to be deceived, and anti-intellectualism prevailing (such as a series of rumors about the new coronavirus), so the more we It has become more extreme and politically polarized. The like function of social media was originally designed to spread love, but gradually we were kidnapped by it, and we were eager to gain social recognition, so more and more psychological problems appeared.
Solution: Control the time of use; be inclusive, look at views you don't agree with, and avoid extremes. When using Douyin, it is also a good way to not log in.
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