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Course: Social media literacy > Unit 3
Lesson 4: What makes persuasive technology so powerful?Reflection activity: Resisting persuasive technology
How can you fight back?
Reflection activity
🧐 Reflect:
We’ve discussed how persuasive technology is behind all of the social media platforms we use each day. It learns from our behavior and taps into our psychology to build increasingly reliable algorithms that further influence our behavior.
- Now that you know more about the role persuasive technology plays in our online lives, what concerns do you have about its impact?
- What are some steps you think individuals can take to better combat persuasive technology’s impact on your life?
Individually and collectively, we can look for ways to reduce the role of these types of technologies in our lives. We discuss this further in the "Take control of your social media use" lesson.
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sometime logging off might help(5 votes)
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1. What concerns me about how persuasive technology plays out in our lives is that it made me realize that we are easily able to be led to one place in this case social media by it hijacking our instincts sorta.
2. Some steps I can take to better combat persuasive technology's impact on my life is that we can turn off the notifications for social media applications so that we can remove one of the ways it can hijack our minds.(1 vote)
1. A concern I have about the role persuasive technology plays in our online lives is that the algorithm and technology will become more advanced and intelligent in the near future. A more advanced algorithm would persuade even more people to be on their website/app and let them down a rabbit hole that they might be addicted to.
2. I think some steps individuals can take to better combat persuasive technology’s impact on life is to log off for a while and go out discover a hobby or an interest that doesn't make you stay on social media for hours on end.(1 vote)- 1. The concerns that could impact our lives is if we keep on checking the notifications that we keep receiving, or the likes we get just by posting something.
2. Some steps is if people stop posting about them selfs daily, don't get to interested in a notification or likes, and not cousinly being on social media 24/7.(1 vote) - 1. People focusing on virtual popularity and not caring about what is real.
2. Set a timer for how long you can use the internet and when that time is up put your devices away.(1 vote) - Restarting can help you(1 vote)
delete all your social media accounts and stop using them, instead spend time with nature and irl friends doing some activities.(0 votes)- I'm concerned that persuasive technology can manipulate us without us ever realizing it, but I think simply logging off every now and then would help.(0 votes)