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Redesigning Attention
Outsmart the app: the economics of attention.
It takes your brain less than half a second to make an impulsive decision. That's faster than blinking!
It takes your brain up to several minutes to make an intentional decision.
Technological algorithms don't want you to take the time to make those intentional decisions...
95% of teens ages 13–17 use social media, and over a third say they use it almost constantly.
Nearly 40% of kids ages 8–12 are on social media, even though platforms require users to be 13 or older.
Teens who spend more than 3 hours a day on social media face roughly double the risk of depression and anxiety symptoms.
The more you engage with content on one side of an issue, the further your feed drifts from the middle — recommendation algorithms don't just reflect your views, they gradually narrow them.
Meta to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
Stanford Study: Health warnings could reduce young people’s social media use
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