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Course: Social media literacy > Unit 3
Lesson 2: What is persuasive technology?Reflection activity: Social media and persuasion
What is it that hooks you?
Reflection activity
🤔 CONSIDER:
Think about your favorite social media app.
- How does it pull you in?
- What are some ways you use the app that are not aligned with your goals for yourself?
Want to join the conversation?
- I get entertained.
I get distracted instead of doing something else(4 votes) - i dont have a favorite app but if i had to choose itd be sms msging because that is the only one i somewhat care about.(2 votes)
- My favorite social media app is
1.instagram
2.snapchat
I mainly like snapchat because you can take goofy pictures.(2 votes) - instagram is the app I use the most
the reels keep me on instagram.
Doing my homework, but the reels keep me from not doing it.(1 vote) - it gives us a lot of notifications on what we might want to see(1 vote)
- It gives me so many notifications, for everything I might be interested in. There are ads everywhere designed to try to hook you in.(1 vote)
- 1.either I have a question about something and get off track or because of a notification.
2.i get off track and even sometimes forget what my goal was.
idk(1 vote) - I like MissCarrying Justice League on Facebook. Its many perspectives and stories of lived experience of unlikely wonderful people. I'd read and hours go by.(1 vote)
- 1. Through engagement and FOMO
2. It only serves as a distraction from what I really want.(1 vote) - i get distracted easily(1 vote)