I am not sure if i totally understand your point of how we are being manipulated as a developer. But i get to know sometime ago how we ( as users) are manipulated by social media. One of video that make me think was TEDx talk by Cal Newport (author of Deep Work) , few others TEDx talks i watched about information abundance, and use of psychology, surprisingly i found few clips of former Facebook employee (presidents) that it is made to manipulate us. He was talking about that little bell icon notification on Twitter. I thought it might be jealousy or something. Then i heard about Dopamine and how social media use techniques to release it on certain events. Porn industry heavily rely on these stuff, otherwise why would people do weird stuff infront of damn screen (pixels to be precise). I got a nice name for this PIXEL FOOL. Then in lockdown i rarely used Facebook and i am proud of it.
Developers make the most effective forms of mass manipulation. (It started out with good intentions. But it got turned into this.) As developers we are uniquely positioned to mitigate the damage and avoid going down that path in future products. The first step is awareness of what is happening and how it is affecting people and society.
I hope i won't , as betraying people by any mean is prohibited in every aspect of life, being human, being a Muslim. But problem could be people are less interested in Educational & useful stuff then Entertainment. How to cope with that could be challenging.
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I am not sure if i totally understand your point of how we are being manipulated as a developer. But i get to know sometime ago how we ( as users) are manipulated by social media. One of video that make me think was TEDx talk by Cal Newport (author of Deep Work) , few others TEDx talks i watched about information abundance, and use of psychology, surprisingly i found few clips of former Facebook employee (presidents) that it is made to manipulate us. He was talking about that little bell icon notification on Twitter. I thought it might be jealousy or something. Then i heard about Dopamine and how social media use techniques to release it on certain events. Porn industry heavily rely on these stuff, otherwise why would people do weird stuff infront of damn screen (pixels to be precise). I got a nice name for this PIXEL FOOL. Then in lockdown i rarely used Facebook and i am proud of it.
Developers make the most effective forms of mass manipulation. (It started out with good intentions. But it got turned into this.) As developers we are uniquely positioned to mitigate the damage and avoid going down that path in future products. The first step is awareness of what is happening and how it is affecting people and society.
I hope i won't , as betraying people by any mean is prohibited in every aspect of life, being human, being a Muslim. But problem could be people are less interested in Educational & useful stuff then Entertainment. How to cope with that could be challenging.