
#239 Storytelling in design with Anna Dahlström
UX Podcast
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The Social Media Platform Is Not Serving Us It's Not Helping Our Story
It's the social media platform deciding this is the story you should see now and it actually takes away the the option for me as a user to choose my own story. The algorithms that throw things at you in the order it decides can end up with weird situations like here's our baby girl that's just been born, she turns up in your feed before the post saying oh god the contractions have started we're on our way into the hospital so it becomes a really messed up story. There are really complicated settings very deep down that we actually can help you avoid some of these things but the primary algorithm that James is talking about isn't helping us tell stories.
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