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An American technology ethicist. He is the president and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.
Early in his career, he worked as a design ethicist at Google.

Who is TRISTAN HARRIS?

100

The internet became popular in this year.

What is 1995?

100

The key to modifying our behavior by offering 

Positive or Negative reinforcement.

What is POSITIVE reinforcement?

100

This percent of Twitter users have college degrees.

What is 28%?

100

These can be defined as a set of rules or calculations used to solve problems and deliver a result. They are used in social media to deliver specific content and manipulate the user.

What are ALGORHYTHYMS?

200

Edward Tufte said, "There are only two industries that call their customers 'users': _____    ______ and _____________.

What are "ILLEGAL DRUGS and SOFTWARE"?

200

_______ is the first generation that started social media use in middle school. The rate of these kids obtaining driving licenses or experiencing any kind of romantic interaction is dropping rapidly. 

What is GEN Z? 

Gen Z: those who were born after 1996 have been most negatively affected by the use of internet and social media.

200

If you are not paying for the product, then ________________________________.

What is "YOU ARE THE PRODUCT"


We are the product-our attention is being sold to advertisers.

200

Social media starts to dig deeper and deeper into the brain _______ and takes over our sense of self-worth and identity.

What is the brain STEM?

200

Name 3 things Social Media knows about you.

What is AGE, RACE, POLITICS, GENDER, LIKES/DISLIKES, LOCATION, FRIENDS, SCHOOL/WORK, etc...?

300

According to a former ________ Executive, everything that we are doing online is being watched, tracked and measured. 


What is TWITTER?


300

Social Media became available on mobile devices in this year.

What is 2009?

300

The content that we assume available for free on the Internet, is actually being paid for by ________. 

Who are ADVERTISERS? 

Advertisers pay for our attention and make money from that.

300

Humans did not evolve to get social approval from tens of thousands of people every 5 minutes. But apparently, we have curated our lives around this perceived sense of ___________.

What is PERFEKTION?

300

These are some risks of social media platforms.

What is _____________________?

400

Social media is a marketplace that trades in ______ futures.

What is HUMAN FUTURES?

400

_______ is the most popular social network.

What is FACEBOOK? 

*because of Gen X-ers!!

400

The suicide rate amongst girls ages 15-19 has increased by _________ percent.

What is 70%?

400

This Country has the most active social media users in the world.

What is The UNITED ARAB EMIRATES?

400

Neuroscientists compare social media interaction to a syringe of _______ being injected straight into the system.

What is DOPAMINE? 

A 2018 study by Harvard University shows how self-disclosure on social networking sites lights up the same part of the brain that also ignites when taking an addictive substance and the experts in the documentary reiterate this fact. They explain that the platforms are designed to hook you in and keep you scrolling because, according to Tim Kendall former president of Pinterest, “the business model is to keep people engaged on the screen”. 

500

"I actually had to write myself software to break my addiction to reading __________."

-Aza Raskin

What is REDDIT?

500

The icon/image that we see when the other person is replying to our comment, to keep us engaged and so we don't lose interest.

What is a TYPING INDICATOR BUBBLE?

500

While we think that Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms are just for our entertainment, the business model of these companies is based on keeping us _______________.

What is ENGAGED on our screens?

500

"...so, we want to psychologically figure out how to manipulate you as ____ as possible." 

-Chamath Palihapitiya

What is FAST?

500

A form of anxiety experienced when you’re worried about missing out on a positive experience that someone else is having.

What is FOMO?

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