Using Social Networks to Maximize Time on Sight

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Nobody wants to use 20 different social networks and have to remember all the logens. If there's a currency that everyone accepts, that currency kind of gets a monopoly value. Everyone i want to find is on there. The a will curate all the content to show me exactly what i want to see,. But which part of me wants to see? Well, it's going to optimize based on my behavior and how long I spend on sight. And it happens that the things that appeal to my existing biases and increase my sense of certainty in an uncertain world are more popular than those that scare me.

On September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems are meticulously known inside the company — all the way up to Mark Zuckerberg. Pollster Frank Luntz invited Tristan Harris along with friend and mentor Daniel Schmachtenberger to discuss the implications in a live webinar.

In this bonus episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan and Daniel amplify the scope of the public conversation about The Facebook Files beyond the platform, and into its business model, our regulatory structure, and human nature itself.