#digitalwellbeing

· 1mo ago

Day 1 of the AuIGF and already we’ve attended some excellent sessions on First Nations Digital Soverignty (and a call out that they want help to kick off a travelling roadshow to regional communities), A youth led session on the social media under 16 laws; that young people are terming “the delay” (the social media delay), and would prefer we calll it this too. And now we’re hearing out the significant local work on development of “A social contract for digital wellbeing” to help create a unified vision for communities/gov and orgs to sign on to and help curb the net just being increasingly corporate driven. Inspired today! More deets including details on the speakers and sessions on the auigf website. https://auigf.au/program-1 #auIGF #DigitalWellbeing #SocialMediaDelay

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All sessions from this year’s event were livestreamed and recorded, and are now available to watch online.

Robin Evans 🙏 @Robinzz3@aus.social

· 3mo ago

FACEBOOK IS TOXIC. META IS AWFUL. WHY CONTINUE FEEDING IT? 💎 Nearly everyone complains about Facebook and Meta. The algorithms are toxic. The advertising is invasive. The outrage is manufactured. CHILDREN ARE BEING HARMED. Privacy is disappearing. And then millions of people open Facebook or Instagram. Again. And again. I genuinely do not understand it. If you believe these companies are damaging children, manipulating attention, and making billions from human vulnerability, why are you still giving them your presence? Especially the parents. If Facebook and Instagram are unhealthy for your children, what exactly are you modeling by remaining there yourself? “We know this place is harmful, darling, but Mummy and Daddy have photographs to look at.” I left Meta years ago. I didn’t die. My friends did not evaporate. Civilization continued. There is email. There are phones. THERE IS THE OPEN WEB. There is even the terrifying possibility of seeing another human being, god forbid, in person. Meta survives because people who complain about it continue supplying exactly what it needs: Their attention. Their relationships. Their outrage. THEIR CHILDREN. You do not have to wait for Zuckerberg to become a better person. You can simply leave today. The door swings both ways. #Facebook #Meta #Instagram #SocialMedia #Algorithms #BigTech #DigitalWellbeing #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #Privacy #AttentionEconomy #TechEthics #SocialMediaAddiction #Zuckerberg #DeleteFacebook

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