“Influence #psychology” & “Social Medias”
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How Social Media uses Influence Psychology to Keep You Coming BackPart 1This post will talk about how social medias — and, in a way, all existing apps and websites — use psychological hacks and triggers to keep bringing you back to their platforms.If you’ve been thinking that it’s your fault/careless attitude that you end up spending hours on YouTube, well, it’s not exactly your fault. Today we have an “attention economy” and our cognitive triggers are been taken advantage of to get us back on the medium again and again. In other words, to get us “hooked”.Let’s dig deep into how it happens:Throughout this series I will be drawing references from the book Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion, and propose how the trick might have been used in designing social medias in their current form.In the (...)