{"id":3570,"date":"2026-09-24T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:57:08","slug":"week-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/week-4-4\/","title":{"rendered":"week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guesstimate:<br \/>\nMost used apps are likely going to be Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify, probably in that order. I don&#8217;t know if Spotify counts when the app is closed and just playing music, but the results are probably the same, as I usually listen to music through vinyl or on my desktop Spotify. I also fall asleep with YouTube on often, so It will likely skew the data there.<\/p>\n<p><b>1- Make a list of what the Internet\/phones train that\u2019s beneficial; <\/b><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><b>Then make a list of what behaviors are displaced, disrupted or harmed.<\/b><br \/>\n-It trains me to fact check knowledge often, instead of blindly accepting comments.<br \/>\n-trains me to regularly maintain contact with others who I would otherwise not contact as much<br \/>\n-harms in person social patterns, spend more time with people on the phone than in person.<br \/>\n-trains to doomscrolling and not allowing yourself to be bored<br \/>\n-trains to pull out phone in social situations<\/p>\n<p><b>2- List at least 3 APP\/Internet examples of bad friction &amp; how it generates harm.<\/b><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><b>Then list at least 3 examples of good friction? Are they defaults? Or user settings?<br \/>\n<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0-Mandatory pre-roll advertisements in YouTube videos, adds effort without care and pushes advertisements<br \/>\n-takes effort to remove the option for seeing YouTube shorts on YouTube &#8211; effort without care and pushes advertisements<br \/>\n-seeing an ad every 3 tiktoks and how easy it is to accidentally swipe to the TikTok shop &#8211; pushes advertisements<br \/>\n-Forcing AI into everything, specifically google search AI result<br \/>\nGood<br \/>\n-twitter having a &#8216;following only&#8217; feed to only see people you want to<br \/>\n-YouTube defaulting to showing you creators you&#8217;re subscribed to<br \/>\n-games having those &#8220;you&#8217;ve been playing a while, take a break?&#8221; pop up<\/p>\n<p><strong>3: pick one distressing feeling that emerges when you try a digital fast <\/strong>&#8211;<br \/>\n-Boredom<br \/>\n-if I focused my attention and energy on boredom, It would essentially become meditation and I would<br \/>\nlikely become more in touch with my emotions, and potentially reach higher levels of the maslows pyramid<br \/>\nI would likely spend more energy doing things to make myself less bored, and would become more productive<br \/>\ninstead of spending so much time online<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guesstimate: Most used apps are likely going to be Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify, probably in that order. I don&#8217;t know if Spotify counts when the app is closed and just playing music, but the results are probably the same, as I usually listen to music through vinyl or on my desktop Spotify. I also fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","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\/3570","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}