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Course: Social media literacy > Unit 3
Lesson 2: What is persuasive technology?Reflection activity: Social media and persuasion
What is it that hooks you?
Reflection activity
🤔 CONSIDER:
Think about your favorite social media app.
- How does it pull you in?
- What are some ways you use the app that are not aligned with your goals for yourself?
Want to join the conversation?
- I get entertained.
I get distracted instead of doing something else(4 votes) - My favorite social media app is
1.instagram
2.snapchat
I mainly like snapchat because you can take goofy pictures.(3 votes) - instagram is the app I use the most
the reels keep me on instagram.
Doing my homework, but the reels keep me from not doing it.(2 votes) - i dont have a favorite app but if i had to choose itd be sms msging because that is the only one i somewhat care about.(2 votes)
- 1. It doesn't
2. I barely use Social Media(2 votes) - What happens when you get pulled in?(2 votes)
- 1. By advertising stuff your interested in
2. Watching Youtube(1 vote) - it gives us a lot of notifications on what we might want to see(1 vote)
- It gives me so many notifications, for everything I might be interested in. There are ads everywhere designed to try to hook you in.(1 vote)
- 1. My favorite social media app at the moment is Instagram, and it pulls me in by sending me notifications whenever someone comments on a post, story, or sends me a DM.
2. The use of scrolling on Instagram reels for extended periods of time is something that doesn't align with my goal of participating in activities that do not involve my phone (going outside, hanging out with friends/family, etc.).(1 vote)