Hi-Tech social media and other information collecting companies are like drug dealers. They figured out how to design technology apps/software that tap into the same “reward circuit” in your brain that food, drugs and sex are related to. They do this to capture as much of your time and attention as possible so they can sell the accumulated data collected on you to advertisers, information which also can end up in the hands of hostile foreign governments.
One world famous social media entrepreneur said, “God only knows what social media is doing to our children’s brains.” He also went on to say social media platforms are deliberately designed to be addictive and to exploit a vulnerability in human psychology. Getting and keeping your attention on social media platforms produces hours, days, even years of your patterns of behavior that is collected and then sold to the highest bidder. The pleasure you get from being “liked” on social media acts on you like a little hit of dopamine…literally, as the programmers and designers behind social media technologies have successfully figured out how to stimulate the brain’s “reward circuit.
Originally, the internet was supposed to make us free and make information free, connect everyone, organize economic and political life through decentralized, consent-based services that would make Big Government obsolete in some ways. Technology, we thought, would be a tool for liberation. However, critics charge it has become a tool of addiction and possible political and financial repression by corporate conglomerates and Big Governments, friend and foe.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: THE BILL BONNER LETTER 12/30/17