Social Media: A conspiracy to hurt you?

[MidnightRose]

:salam:

In this 1-minute video, the founding Facebook president explains what social media is intended to do.

Please see the article below (under the video) after watching.

Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

Source of video


Sean Parker unloads on Facebook: “God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains”
Source of article

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider's look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.

Parker's I-was-there account provides priceless perspective in the rising debate about the power and effects of the social networks, which now have scale and reach unknown in human history. He's worried enough that he's sounding the alarm. Parker, 38, now founder and chair of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, spoke yesterday at an Axios event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, about accelerating cancer innovation. In the green room, Parker mentioned that he has become "something of a conscientious objector" on social media. By the time he left the stage, he jokingly said Mark Zuckerberg will probably block his account after reading this:"When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.' And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.' And then they would say, 'No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.' And I would say, ... 'We'll get you eventually.'""I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways.

God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, ... was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?'""And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you ... more likes and comments."

"It's a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology."

"The inventors, creators — it's me, it's Mark [Zuckerberg], it's Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it's all of these people — understood this consciously. And we did it anyway."

[BeTheChange]

Walaikumasalaam,

I have used facebook once in my life and that was kind of forced upon me due to study updates/circles. After i finished my studies i cancelled my membership.

Never looked back since. I absolutely hate facebook. I prefer the old fashioned way speaking to people face to face. Alhamdulilah.

[Abz2000]

Here's a good tip for social media unless checking news or going into comments sections to give dawah to Allah :swt: with honesty:


27. And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord: none can change His Words, and none wilt thou find as a refuge other than Him.

28. And keep thy soul content with those who call on their Lord morning and evening, seeking His Face; and let not thine eyes pass beyond them, seeking the pomp and glitter of this Life; no obey any whose heart We have permitted to neglect the remembrance of Us, one who follows his own desires, whose case has gone beyond all bounds.

29. Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it): for the wrong-doers We have prepared a Fire whose (smoke and flames), like the walls and roof of a tent, will hem them in: if they implore relief they will be granted water like melted brass, that will scald their faces, how dreadful the drink! How uncomfortable a couch to recline on!

30. As to those who believe and work righteousness, verily We shall not suffer to perish the reward of any who do a (single) righteous deed.

31. For them will be Gardens of Eternity; beneath them rivers will flow; they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and they will wear green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade: They will recline therein on raised thrones. How good the recompense! How beautiful a couch to recline on!

From Quran, Chapter 18


Bear in mind that this forum is also a form of social media.


Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.[1] The variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition; however, there are some common features:[2]


Facebook raised alarm bells by the way it was heavily promoted like snake oil adverts at the time by secular establishment falsehood regurgitating news networks (and i know they get their friends into poll position like with publishers' bestseller lists and national uprisings when any idea starts rising) - then looking at all the information it was seeking confirmed that it was an easy intelligence gathering tool.
Though i still set up an account with "don't want to tell you" on most of the profile questions - then forgot the password after a few months of rare use - especially considering the frivolous chats that were predominant.
Then i made another account a couple of years back simply to get an iq test result - which ended up demanding money in facebook lol, once it asked me to send facebook a scanned copy of my "drivers license or passport or birth certificate" in order to verify my account and i wished i could break facebook by breaking my phone - that account is dormant too, and that's how attached i am to fb.
I've still got one which i keep in case i need to read anything though.