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How to Be a Better Human

Social Media Is Designed to Prioritize Certain Types of Emotions and Not Others

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Social media is designed to prioritize certain types of emotions and not others. The things that make you more likely to take an action are high arousal emotions. It just so happens that there are more high arousal emotions that tend toward antisocial ends as we have now seen.

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