1: Name one place where you are in complete control of your attention:
-For me, the place where I am the most in control of my attention would be when I am alone in my bedroom. I have complete control over what I want to spend my time doing, and I am not getting distracted by any stimuli I do not invite in. I can choose to listen to music, do homework. watch a show, etc., without the threat of something in the background tearing me away.
2: When has an app helped you do what you wanted? When has it moved you away from your own goal
-Youtube has helped me learn a lot about various things, most recently various features of Photoshop, and has helped me improve greatly. Inversely, YouTube has also taken away probably combined months of my time with various videos that have distracted me from getting important things done. This morning, I watched a video about how long food can last in water for a little too long, and it let to me leaving for class later than I typically do.
3:Pick an app that is useful to you (tweeter). Suggest a design choice that makes it remain useful but eliminates a dark pattern:
-goal: connect with others and provide news and entertainment
-pattern: fed with inflammatory material designed to get me mad and spend longer on the website
-value: connection, information
-beneficiaries: elon, people who pay to get paid, advertisers.
-Twitter, and make the algorithm less engagement-bait focused, and target it further towards the content I am aiming for, rather than pushing things designed to make me mad to get people money on twitter dot com. I will still receive the connection with my peers, as well as the news that I rely on twitter for, but I will be less engaged
3b:
Problem: Oil Drilling and fracking
Goal: provide energy, and sell for money
pattern: companies destroy land for oil, and sell it for profit
value: Profit, convenience, control
Beneficiaries: oil companies, the United States of America.
Big change: convert entirely to nuclear and solar energy. Ban the trade of oil.
