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<\/p>\nI\u2019ve been running experiments with my social media use. For instance, I stopped looking at Twitter notifications, for years. Hundreds I didn\u2019t look at (I\u2019m sorry if you were replying to my tweets and if I know you, I love you and hey, my bad).<\/p>\n
I decided to pay attention to them again. Enabling the dopamine loops and all that brain hacking stuff.<\/p>\n
Man, notifications are the devil. I\u2019m fairly immune to them: I don\u2019t have any for anything. Not on my phone. No push, zero, ever, none. But a couple weeks using Twitter \u2013just the PWA client- while paying attention to notifications and I\u2019m already feeling like<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s horrifying. Y\u2019all are addicted like a mf and you don\u2019t realize it. It\u2019s so ingrained in your computer use that you can\u2019t even do something on the most amazing tool humanity has ever gotten without \u201ctrying\u201d to check some notifications. \u201cJust\u201d in case.<\/p>\n
I knew notifications were bad before social media. Email and RSS had told me it was wrong. Just noise and anxiety. But with social media, you are rewarded with a little picture of a heart or some other bullshit to make you feel validated. It\u2019s fucking stupid, yet it works wonderfully.<\/p>\n
What freaks me out is that folks at Twitter have so much power and are probably doing some wild shit: \u201clook at this user who\u2019s engaging like crazy. Let\u2019s send him\/her a bit more notifications than the average and see how it goes. Okay! She\/He is doubling down on posting. Good. Let\u2019s starve them to see how they react\u201d. They can decide of the virality of your extremely honest, personal tweet that day. And so forth. There\u2019s so much manipulation there. Notifications are the vessel.<\/p>\n
Social media has been popular for a decade. Ten years, 24\/7, the world. Imagine the amount of data and the accuracy they have on how people behave and react to the carrot that is notifications. Trust me, they\u2019re not using that data to change the world in the way you want it. It probably makes a lot of Silicon Valley executives \u2013who are tied to government, military and all- believe with the intensity of a thousand suns that people are really<\/em>\u00a0and absolutely<\/em> idiotic, predictable, dumb ass apes. Look at the data!<\/p>\n Fuck notification and its clicks it claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been running experiments with my social media use. For instance, I stopped looking at Twitter notifications, for years. Hundreds I didn\u2019t look at (I\u2019m sorry if you were replying to my tweets and if I know you, I love you and hey, my bad). I decided to pay attention to them again. Enabling the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}