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Where does your attention agency work best for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For me, I find it easiest to pay attention during class\/when I am in a classroom environment. When I am at home, I am often distracted by my phone (which diverts my attention), but in a classroom, I am required to be attentive – I don’t have the option to go on my phone and procrastinate on my work. In a classroom, there are often immediate deadlines, and other people in the room rely on everyone to be attentive and contribute to the class. This makes it easier for me to focus and get things done.<\/p>\n

When has an app helped me do what I wanted? When has it moved me away from my goal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

YouTube has done both for me. As someone who likes video editing, I use YouTube for tutorials on how to edit certain things, download certain things, and find sound effects, overlays, etc. It has been a great tool and is usually my most-used app while video editing, aside from the editing program. However, I often find myself watching other videos because of the autoplay, clickbait titles or thumbnails, YouTube Shorts, etc.<\/p>\n

Suggest a design choice that eliminates a dark pattern for the app you chose:<\/strong> I chose YouTube, and I think YouTube Shorts cause the dark pattern for me. This is a scroll feature with short videos designed to keep someone’s attention. If I had to change this, I would make YouTube Shorts its own app, sort of like YouTube Kids being its own app, and keep it disconnected from the YouTube app. Shorts is designed to be an addictive, short-attention-span, scrolling app designed to hook you in. If that’s what I want, then I can download a separate app, but when I go onto YouTube for video editing tutorials or elements, I don’t want it to open to the Shorts tab and distract me because this has happened to me a lot.<\/p>\n

Pick the thing that worries you the most in the culture around you and identify what is keeping this in place; what could change?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something that has bothered me recently is the amount of food waste from homes and restaurants. At the end of the day, every restaurant has a large supply of food that hasn’t been eaten but wouldn’t taste as fresh the next day, so they throw it out. Meanwhile, there are homeless people all over who don’t have anything to eat during the day. One solution could be to freeze this food and then reheat it at a later time, or freeze the food and then donate it to a homeless shelter. I understand not giving out the food directly to homeless people, since it could cause potential loitering problems, but it is very easy to donate food to shelters. It doesn’t even necessarily have to be homeless people. You could freeze it and bring it home, or to a friend. Someone you know could bring it to their work for their co-workers. There are many ways to save opened food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where does your attention agency work best for you? For me, I find it easiest to pay attention during class\/when I am in a classroom environment. When I am at home, I am often distracted by my phone (which diverts my attention), but in a classroom, I am required to be attentive – I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-task"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}