A-social Media and the Fracking of Mankind (Champagne Sharks Podcast)
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2020-04-28

The Toxicity of Social Media: From Conditioning to Rehab

Social media were designed to attract "eyeballs" and monetize them via targeted advertising. To guarantee repeat use, the technology fostered the diminishment of impulse control and delayed gratification and emphasized relative positioning (envy and status via ranking). It also deliberately rewarded escalating aggression. 

These led to the operant conditioning of the users of these platforms and to addictive behaviors.

Addiction, in turn, engendered a reduced capacity for intimacy and for the self-regulation of the user's sense of self-worth and identity. Attention-seeking and grandiosity resulted in dysempathy (enhanced pathological narcissism).

I modified my new treatment modality, Cold Therapy (see below) and came up with a detox and rehab program for Internet and Social Media Addiction.

https://videotranscripts.dk/ (Transcripts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmXcjvL9VSc (The True Toxicity of Social Media)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m38W8glySGw (Malignant Egalitarianism)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lbLJvW0v9I (The Need to Be Seen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzwMLx-rKc (Plugged-in Documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2rKrWNWkS0 (How to Fix Social Media)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIElARjRGTo (Social Media as the Big Eye)

Original posted here under the title: "CS 267: Antisocial Media feat. Sam Vaknin (04/24/2020)" 

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