This week I'm just commenting to feed the algorithm gods 🙏

It’s weirdly rare for videos about the downsides of social media to also acknowledge the benefits, so I appreciate that you did here. May the algorithm be kind to you.

I hated the social dilemma so much. The dudes being g interviewed obviously had so much to say, much more about ethics and politics than the film wanted to say. It was too scared to take any sort of stance other than "phone bad" which isn't something that any of them were trying to say

"Boredom is good." Damn fine advice, something I have to remind myself often.

Commenting to feed the algorithm

I haven't checked my facebook news feed for about 3 weeks, and I really feel much better 😃

I'm realising coming to comment section has become an unintentional habit, a useless one.

I'm still feeling the positive impact of watching Attention Wars. The b=mat equation is a sort of cheat sheet for me. Like every morning, before I get the reward of time on my computer, I fill up my water and take my meds as I sit down. I've been able to build habits that stick by using that formula. I also have 99% of notifications turned off on my phone :P

I truly appreciate this video and what you're saying. I think once each of us becomes more aware of how were constantly being guided and manipulated by these platforms it becomes much easier to begin noticing our own behaviour, and only then can we start changing that behaviour to not be so easily susceptible to the whims of algorithms. And for that I'm thankful for this video! Personally I've never used social media on my phone, for better or worse, and have found that a good choice, because not only will not I get the impulse to post things willy-nilly, but have to delay the gratification by writing things down and maybe later realizing it might have not been so important after all, I also am able to focus more on what is happening right now, on the people I'm with, and in general just be more mindful. Perhaps I am missing something important by not being connected all the time, but I don't imagine it'd be of more value than not being guided by al of the gorithm family, and robbed of my time. Next time you're having lunch or what not, have a look around and pay attention to where everyone else's attention is focused. :) Again thank you Braincraft! Take care and stay safe

The Social Dilemma was just easy to digest for more people.

Commenting to make algorithm to fall in love with this channel.

Great video.. this is exactly what was missing in the social dilemma... But I wanna share something ... Currently with KZfaq I've reached a stage where I feel I'm addicted to the educational channels like yours, sci show, physics girl, veritasium etc., etc., I spend hours watching useful content at the wrong time when I should be completing my tasks... I can't resist the temptations that's the reason why I'm here at 3.00am - absolute midnight... I hv no idea how to get over it.... It would be great if you make another video on practical ways to come out of/stay away from digital addiction...

I'm just here to say how cool that decaying hand scrolling on the phone is. Whoever drew that has my thanks for putting that in the world. Cheers!

you are defently one of my favorite youtubers/knowledge-spreaders ever. please keep going!

it's interesting to hear that people nowadays are never bored, because I feel constantly bored. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I would be interested to see some research into whether this attention economy might be changing how we perceive boredom.

And as always, a new excellent video from brain craft

Another gem from BrainCraft.. Nice work 👍🏻

This videos is inspirational, amazing, show stopping, just from another world, a must watch, love it!

The potential for research with social media is kind of insane

thanks for sharing!

I leave my phone at home most of the time. I was wondering why I had so many adds for cat food.

Amazingly put!!👌

What a good video, it surely made me want to increase my watchtime.

I always find these videos so fascinating

Awesome video quality! 👍🏻

Love how you were able to really bring some attention to the positives, without losing the message.

Just discovered your channel ! Great great video !

Greetings from Colombia

BrainCraft is lowkey my favourite KZfaq channel. You're just awesome, Vanessa! (Psst, algorithm, this one right here!)

Attention Wars was really great, loved it!

Your channel definitely “mood targets me” haha. This video is interesting and while this mood targeting is not surprising, I definitely am compelled to work on managing screen time 🧠 😬

Great video!

Wonderful 💖 You are Great I learned a lot from you 😊 Wish you good luck.

the algorithms even suggested this to me. seems like either it is stupid or confident that no matter what people will still be on social media

Attention wars was 2 YEARS AGO?!?

Commenting for the algorithm Love the channel!!

Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are fine when you enable a good ad blocker. But saying that I hardly use them.

Great Vid!

Nice video, I can relate to some of the problems you talk about. I couldn't really put a name on it and it bothers me because thanks to the pandemic I am very reliant on social media, and since it started I've noticed how it affected me everyday. Maybe I should take the time to be bored. Anyway, I'm doing my part by commenting. All praise the algorithms.

I'm seeing this video 9 days after its launch because YT notified me when it came out, but never again. Ha! My brain was able to remember you uploaded without a notification. I defeated KZfaq.

I use a 2009 Nokia phone. Not for watching this video though because it can't. What it can do is have me not worry about my biometrics and other data being harvested for marketing, plus it's great at not constantly distracting me. I do still have a Facebook account (which I can only access from my computer) but I have unfollowed everything and everyone and only keep it for messenger. No feed. No notifications.

I need that lamp! I've been looking for something like it!!

How did I get here so early? I'm a psych major which I should've realized earlier since I've been subscribed for so long

Imagine what big companies could do with this information! They could for example match people together, so people that have similar profile could meet, talk, create friendships. But instead, they just make us watch more and more, just for profit from ADs... Really sad :(

Informative video

Thank you!!

7:07 Nice names are given to the companies shown here. 😂😂

I have to admit, at 2:11 I almost clicked the Skip Ad button.

Waiting for it.

this is why privacy matters. it's not just about protecting your info from being bought and sold for targeted ads, it's about protecting yourself from social and emotional manipulation.

Vanessa, You are definitely one of the POSITIVES of the internet. Thank you for all the educational videos you make. - Justice Constantine

They always claim it is targeting people for advertising purposes. I think it's more than for advitersing purposes.

People using social platforms to address social platforms' tendency to make people addicted to their contents and then advicing not only to keep using the usual social platforms but also to add a new one.

How does all of this apply to traditional users, on a desktop PC rather than a phone? No accelerometer, no microphone, no change in physical location etc.

Thank you

I give my breaks from certain social media when they get too toxic for me.

Balance is always the answer :*

Like you, I also think the benefits far outweigh the hazards of KZfaq and Facebook, if one uses them with reason. I once took part in an experiment on Facebook in which a new app claimed it could tell me who I am using only my Facebook feed. It found me to be an androgynous, 28-year-old artist. In reality, I was a 70-year-old translator with a full beard. What's more, I can safely assert that I have never bought anything owing to ads on social media unless it was something I was specifically looking for. So I'm not worried about any of the insidious perfidies decried in the Social Dilemma.

I watched the film and I am happy to support this channel.

May the algorithm notice this great job!!

A very nice video 👍☺️

Your documentaries were great

that advise from 6:50 is what i wanted to say but i cant convert it to words xD

What was disturbing was the music playing while Vanessa started laying down everything about social media in the first half of the video. That's nice of Curiosity Stream.

4:15 If this one is spying on me then I will pull funny faces - or do some "Gurning", that'll confuse the system lol

Nothing could keep me on Facebook for longer than I need to read and reply to posts I've been notified about by email. KZfaq is my favorite online poison, but youtube is far less manipulative than Facebook. I favor musical performances and scientific videos. I shudder to think how I might have reacted to Facebook when I was a younger person.

Are these patents not already being used?

I feel this should've been recommended to me

I started deleting all my "entertainment" You tube, and this video popped up after clicking not intrested on all these mindless time vortexes I fall in... Thanks, my thought process leading to the decision was confirmed by your own research provided here.

6:12 That Duo looks ancient

SUE THEM!! I saw your videos and they are very good!

Zeynep Tufekci has an awesome TED talk on the subject, actually.

Were always being told how smart these platforms are at "knowing us", but I've never seen an ad I wanted to watch/click; Amazon recommends such ridiculous stuff... just purchased a TV... yes why not suggest move TVs.

This comment feeds the algorithm

There are steps you can take to use certain kinds of social media yet avoid having social media manipulate your emotions. By far the most powerful method is to screen out all ads. For example, I am an avid user of KZfaq. The possibilities for educating oneself are almost limitless on KZfaq. I am interested in mathematics, physics, early 20th century movies, jazz, and politics. I pay something like $10 per month for KZfaq premium. That means I never have to watch an ad whose placement is controlled by KZfaq. The only way I ever see an ad on KZfaq is if the channel has made the ad part of the video they created. This very seldom happens. The same general idea works when I am reading other kinds of web pages, because I use an ad blocker, the kind that is featured by my browser as an extension. I occasionally pay the ad blocker company $20 or so. I use Facebook only to answer messages from family or friends. I never post my own material there, nor play games there, nor any other FB activity. So if I have to use FB, I am on and off in a matter of two or three minutes.

I also find that a lot of the criticism of the Internet are ripped entirely out of context of the broader world. IVe not watched 'The Social Dilemma' so I cant say if it is an example of this, but take the 'Social Media can make people sad' thing. - Well I can go to BBC News for England right now and what do I see? Man arrested over a murder. Man jailed for killing his ex. Prisoner jailed for cellmate murder. This, all of this, is snuff. Its not informing me of anything. Its not asking me to be on the look out for a criminal, or telling me what murder statistics are, (Theyve actually been down recently.) or what dangers to avoid, it doesnt tell me about a policy or political situation I can contact my MP about, its totally and utterly useless. Its not news. Its horror stories to draw in clicks and perversely entertain our base morbid curiousity. Its snuff. - and its _incredibly_ pervasive in mainstream media, and appears to have serious deleterious effects, as the populace seems to have a horrendously twisted idea of how bad various problems are in our society. - So all that said, Ive no doubt social media can make people sad when people go 'doom scrolling', but... how much better or worse is it in full context? How much better or worse are people who only use social media vs those who grew up glued to the news every night? I honestly dont know the answers to those questions, I just get frustrated that so many takes on the Internet dont seem to ask them at all.

The flip side is that this shows that social media needs us. We have bargaining power against the tech companies, but we haven't yet figured out how to bargain.

I want to write here that I am commenting in order to make the algorithm favor this utterly fantastic video. But we all know that I've just been conditioned to comment in anticipation of reinforcement should someone updoot my comment, and I might need help. Oops. 😅 I'll definitely be checking out the new nebula series, that sounds great! Also I can't comment there and feed an addiction!

We all use psychological tricks on ourselves as well. The best person to fool you is yourself. This has always been the case, long before we had any social media. Or electricity.

The best thing we can do for this problems and many more is to encourage the use and development of free and open source software.

why would one need boredom to think of new things if they already have something to do?

There was heavy selection bias in 'social dilemma.'

Microphone listen background sound what? WTF

I can still talk to my children even when we can't meet up in real life they appreciate it as do I that is amazing the younger generation is growing up with this option I think they will cope better with it than us older types.

Yup

Good video

2:44 « moods like happiness or depression » I can’t help but comment on this, depression is a mood DISORDER (a category of mental disorders), calling it a mood feels invalidating, like playing it down when that word actually carries a lot of weight and shouldn’t be thrown around carelessly Otherwise great video!!!

Looks like algorithm gods are pleased with this one !!!

My computer is playing tricks on me? But I made it. I clean it pretty much bi-monthly. I installed a Noctua cooler to keep the thermals right... I can't. oh :(

Must feed the algorithm that has kept me from completing so much hw on time.

I have duolingo. I hate that if I run out of hearts I can't keep learning. I've gotten addicted to learning japanese

I'm one of those who create such algorithms, I accept that this is true it depends on us to keep in the mind the main motto of creating the algorithm but we never know what can be the outcome of our algorithm in the real life, we really don't know if we create a robot today what it may do in the future based on the data that it looks around the environment. Algorithm is continuously learning from the user data that's why we also don't know what will happen in future But if we see the future outcome then it should be our responsibility to correct that mistake

I've stopped watching reaction/commentary videos of all kinds Cus it just makes me say : 7:21

I liked it. I thought framing yourself with a light on one side and a table with books on the other was good, connoting knowledge. Liked the way you used music to build tension during the part on experimenting with others. Why not use a tablet instead of a smartphone? You get fewer interruptions and tablets are more conducive to long form consumption of information, like reading. It's possible to get some real work done on a tablet. Err...am I trying to hard to influence? Enjoyed the subtle Sean Connery reference. P.S. I just put up some dishes and thought of the old Olivia Newton-John song, 'Please Mr. Please.' Can a button pushing cowboy and a jukebox put us in a bad mood? Then I thought of a Jane Austen novel in which one of the heriones is reading one too many gothic novels and how it gives her mistaken suspicions about what's going on. Don't worry, everything turns out okay in the end. So has the human condition changed all that much? Language is both wonderful and perilous.

I don't even have smart phone...

Great content. However, please adjust the Audio Levels among the clips. Everytime you switched to another interviewee, I could not hear them, and when the video returned to you, I was blasted with way too loud audio. There must be some way to Smooth the level of the audio of your posts. Just a suggestion.

Damn good video

So video, much good

how are you all only just finding this out

Anybody else play Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4 and is just watching all this unfold?