A new book demonstrates how Twitter, which was supposed to make everyone’s lives better, just made everything worse.
Because our attention naturally locks on content that inspires negative emotions like anger and fear, those urges are currently baked into social media’s algorithms. And the more we engage with that content, the more mad and scared we become. Rose-Stockwell doesn’t believe that social media merely surfaced the preexisting but previously unknown objectionable opinions in our fellow citizens.
. These are canny individuals who know how to set off and perpetuate a certain kind of conflict to raise their own profiles and influence.For years, I couldn’t stop myself from engaging with, and being enraged by, all of them: the conflict entrepreneurs, the idiots with bad opinions. It’s taken a sustained act of willpower to transform my own relationship with social media.
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