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| When you spend as much time as I do scrolling hundreds of science press, stuff like this is very exciting - these two images were the thumbnails for two different articles one right after the other. Mostly unrelated to the article below. |
Researcher seeks to understand the regret behind social media use
Nov 2021, phys.org
Twenty-nine Android users ages 19–27 installed Finesse and let the app collect data on their phone usage for a week. After certain sessions on a social media app, Finesse would ask the users to select which features they regretted using.The data showed that the users regretted at least some part of their social media use in 60% of sessions and regretted all their use in nearly 40% of sessions.Features that offered recommended posts or content were most often regretted.In their research, people felt regret when the reward from scrolling recommended posts on social media did not match up to the alternative reward from focusing more on an assignment or lecture, spending more time with friends, or getting more sleep.The apps are designed to suck people in and keep them scrolling. Frequently, people have to bypass addictive features to get to the content they initially sought.
The robots will control us.
via Carnegie Mellon University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the University of Maryland: Hyunsung Cho et al, Reflect, not Regret: Understanding Regretful Smartphone Use with App Feature-Level Analysis, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (2021). DOI: 10.1145/3479600
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