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Smartphone addiction is part of the design
The Slot Machine in Your Pocket
Harris, Tristan http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/smartphone-addiction-is-part-of-the-design-a-1104237.html
Publisher: Spiegel Online
Date Written: 27/07/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Examining the methods by which smartphone apps are created to demand constant, repeated attention, and offers a proposal to promote apps which avoid these pitfalls and promote better use of user's time.
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Like Facebook, LinkedIn exploits an asymmetry in perception. When you receive an invitation from someone to connect, you imagine that person making a conscious choice to invite you, when in reality, they likely unconsciously responded to LinkedIn's list of suggested contacts. In other words, LinkedIn turns your unconscious impulses into new social obligations that millions of people feel obligated to repay. All while they profit from the time people spend doing it.
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Western Culture is built around ideals of individual choice and freedom. Millions of us fiercely defend our right to make "free" choices, while we ignore how our choices are manipulated upstream by menus we didn't choose in the first place.
This is exactly what magicians do. They give people the illusion of free choice while architecting the menu so that they win, no matter what you choose.
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