Young Rep. - The Problems of Social Media and how to Fix them - Mark M, Wilson's Schl

New perspectives on social media are needed. Now becoming quite the cliché, social media has dominated our lives; from parents centimetres away from their babies but millimetres away from their screens to entire social networks, which are supposed to be based upon real in person communications, now completely founded online. And of course, these convenient developments are certainly not a bad thing, but big companies such as YouTube and Instagram are literally investing money into ways to get you more addicted to their platforms using specialised search algorithms. So, what can we do to take back control over our lives?

Young Rep. - The Problems of Social Media and how to Fix them - Mark M, Wilson's Schl
New perspectives on social media are needed. Now becoming quite the cliché, social media has dominated our lives; from parents centimetres away from their babies but millimetres away from their screens to entire social networks, which are supposed to be based upon real in person communications, now completely founded online. And of course, these convenient developments are certainly not a bad thing, but big companies such as YouTube and Instagram are literally investing money into ways to get you more addicted to their platforms using specialised search algorithms. So, what can we do to take back control over our lives?