sharing rituals: online behaviors shaping reality
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SXSWi 2014TRANSCRIPT
Sharing Rituals:Online Behaviors Shaping Reality
Which is a fancy title for chatting with you about how
what we share online has real impact on our
lives offline.
STACY FULLERHEAD OF SOCIAL INNOVATIONAT CAKE@STACYKFULLER
MAUDE STANDISHFOUNDER +
MANAGING DIRECTOR AT TAROT
@MAUDECHILD
#overshare
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Eek! Is Social Media Bad?
what IS IT doing to our brains?
3 lbs.20%OUR BODY’S
ENERGY
9CUBIC INCHES
SHRUNK
10%LOSS OF MASS
HIS WAS BIGGER,BUT OURS IS MORE SOCIAL.
SOCIAL MEDIATAPS INTO OUR
DEFAULT.
it’s making us positivity addicts.
So what is Social Media doing to relationships?
STALKINGBEFORE YOU MEET
This is terrifying.
The couple that posts together stays together
Get over it!
It’s also reconstructing how our memory works.
Social media is overloading our short-term memory.
Our memory may be getting worse, but that’s okay because we have things like Instagram to capture the moments for us.
right?
THE photo-taking-impairment effect
good at Instagram = BETTER MEMORY
#YOLO
REGRET
Networked Publics
Public places on the internet where different conflicting contexts and
social norms coexist.=
#FAIL
We all perform for social networks
We run into issues with we portray the wrong self to the
unintended audience
Regret in real life is based on what you don’t do
I do not regret the things I didn’t post
— Padraig Reidy
“ The problem Justine Sacco has, and the problem that has led to her losing her job, is that you and I really have no idea who she is, apart from the woman who makes bad jokes on Twitter.
of social media users report being bullied
online
39%
1950s electric shock study
Lack of social cues
Body languageGestures
Facial RecognitionTone of Voice
of social media teens admitted to joining in when witnessing
cruelty online
21%
Ask someone to back off
How does this effect women?
72.5%
i hope someone slits your throat and cums down your gob.
5%
I heard Facebook is making me depressed.
In College Facebook Only
82 PEOPLE
How are you using Facebook?
Are you these people?
OR THIS PERSON.
But your vacation picture does bum me out :(
— Steven Furtick, NPR Commenter
“ The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
SENSE OF WORTH
Studies have found that browsing social media raises our self esteem far higher than looking in the mirror.
And this isn’t just true of “selfies.”
But that raised self esteem can have detrimental effects.
Greater social media use is correlated to increased binge eating, higher body mass, lower credit score, and higher levels of credit card debt.
FACEBOOK & drunk STUDENT narcissists
NOW
30%1982
15%
#SORRYNOTSORRY
#SORRYNOTSORRYInternational Center for Media & Public Agenda
STUDENTS100
COUNTRIES10
NO SOCIAL MEDIA24 HOURS
For those under 25 you can’t imagine your life without a constant connection.
— UK
“ Media is my drug; without it I was lost.I am an addict.
— China
“ I can say without exaggeration, I was almost freaking out.
— Slovakia“ I felt sad, lonely and
depressed.
— Argentina“ I felt DEAD.
— New York“ Who would volunteer
for this study?!
alarmed?
ANGELO ALCASABAS Art Director, CAKE
A BIG THANKS TO
@GELo123
thank you for staying.
QUESTIONS?