Social Media

YouTube

YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute -- wikipedia.

effect: removing social media under 200...

...in your personal life. By request.

Facebook

As of December 2022, Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States -- wikipedia.

Twitter / X

"Twitter, officially known as X since July 2023, is a social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media websites and one of the most-visited websites" -- wikipedia.

ChatGPT (AI chatbot)

A sophisticated artificial intelligence system, made by the Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI, that responds to complex queries with the appearance of striking intelligence and accuracy -- bloomberg.com.

percentage of YouTube Shorts (quick videos) under 200

Request: Shorts on YouTube seem to be the worst.

T/F: TikTok promotes delusion

Calibrated by request.

YouTube Kids

The app provides a version of the service oriented solely towards children, with curated selections of content, parental control features, and filtering of videos deemed inappropriate for viewing by children under the age of 13 -- wikipedia

50 Shades of Life Facebook group

stories are posted about acts of kindness and love in everyday life, e.g. a police officer helping someone out, or people in a restaurant starting to sing for an old veteran out of respect, etc... Comments on the posts are almost exclusively encouraging, grateful and loving.

Snapchat

On average more than four billion Snaps are sent each day. Snapchat is popular among the younger generations, particularly those below the age of 16, leading to many privacy concerns for parents. --wikipedia

TikTok

hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes --wikipedia

Tellonym (messaging app)

"allows you to receive anonymous and honest feedback from everyone who is important to you." --tellonym.me