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The Social Dilemma #shorts #podcast

2 Nov 2023

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This is a YouTube video titled "The Social Dilemma #shorts #podcast" containing a monologue or single-speaker discussion recorded on November 2, 2023. The speaker addresses the impact of social media on mental health and anxiety, focusing on how social media has become a primary news source and tends to promote negatively valenced content that drives engagement through emotional responses.

One of the primary problems with social media in terms of mental health and anxiety is becoming our primary source of news and information for a lot of people. And more than half of American adults get news from social media today. And social media posts tend to be negatively valenced when it comes to news. We actually tend to respond more immediately to news that is negatively emotionally valenced. So stuff that is outrageous, missing context, anger inducing, disgusting. We tend to respond to that. If you build a basic engagement algorithm that's trying to track what people are interested in, this is actually Actually goes back to traditional news. If it bleeds, it leads. Algorithms have figured that out, right? If it gets you stuck on the item, you are going to keep responding to it.