Case in point- I never got drawn into IG or FB, SC... twitter a little. Then because I needed to work on some marketing for music I dow loaded Tik Tok and started messing around - three months later I realized how that fing algo was wasting my valuable time with just the right videos to keep me watching.
Another thing that happened was I started getting phishing attempts with oddly specifically crafted messages that would catch my eye-
Silicon Valley and the adoption of the behavioral algorithms on every app and social is destroying our humanity.
So say no to these pirates of our freewill and behavior before you become a cog in the new digital industrial machine.
Good article π