Weâre not concerned at all. This is about investing in our users and their wellbeing, and that will always trump metrics and bottom line. Thereâs no denying the data; we are all spending too much time on our smartphones and too much time on social media. Itâs become the new pastime and the impact can be devastating, especially for young women. We wanted to be a part of the solution by encouraging our users to take time for their mental health through a simple product feature that allows them to temporarily Snooze their time on Bumble. Weâve always invested in the safety and wellbeing of our users and Snooze is another example of that.
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âWe were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.' In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.â â
tags: 1984, aldous-huxley, brave-new-world, desire, fear, george-orwell, huxley, orwell
âAmericans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.â
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tags: americans, conversation, people, shallowness, talking, television
âWhat Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumble puppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists, who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny, âfailed to take into account manâs almost infinite appetite for distractions.â In 1984, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.â â
âWhen a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.â
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âEverything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?â
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âIn America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?â
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tags: discourse, ignorance, knowledge, media, nate-silver, opinions, politics, polls, television
â[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).â
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âThe television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.â
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âEducators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and religious narratives. We see this, of course, in the conflict concerning creation science. Some educators representing, as they think, the conscience of science act much like those legislators who in 1925 prohibited by law the teaching of evolution in Tennessee. In that case, anti-evolutionists were fearful that a scientific idea would undermine religious belief. Today, pro-evolutionists are fearful that a religious idea will undermine scientific belief. The former had insufficient confidence in religion; the latter insufficient confidence in science. The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.â
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âFor in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.â
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âWe do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.â
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âOur politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.â
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tags: american-culture, social-commentary, sociology
âChildren are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.â
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â[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. [â¦] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)â
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âAt its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.â
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âTelevision is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.â
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âWhat Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.â
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âWhat the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.â
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âThe reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.â
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âPeople will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to thinkâ
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âBut it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.â
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âI believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.â
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âIf politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.â
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tags: dishonesty, disinformation, facade, falsities, politics, show-business
âTelevision is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)â
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âThe written word endures, the spoken word disappearsâ
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âIt is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.â
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tags: censorship, independent-thought, technology-addiction, thinking
âThe scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes.
Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry--is not even a 'subject'--but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.â â
âTelevision screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales. â
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âI do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.â
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âThere is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come when we try to live in them. The communications media of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with telegraphy and photography at their center, called the peek-a-boo world into existence, but we did not come to live there until television. Television gave the epistemological biases of the telegraph and the photograph their most potent expression, raising the interplay of image and instancy to an exquisite and dangerous perfection. And it brought them into the home. We are by now well into a second generation of children for whom television has been their first and most accessible teacher and, for many, their most reliable companion and friend. To put it plainly, television is the command center of the new epistemology. There is no audience so young that it is barred from television. There is no poverty so abject that it must forgo television. There is no education so exalted that it is not modified by television. And most important of all, there is no subject of public interestâpolitics, news, education, religion, science, sportsâthat does not find its way to television. Which means that all public understanding of these subjects is shaped by the biases of television.â
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tags: education, entertainment, epistemology, ideology, public-discourse, television
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Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumbleâs CEO and Founder, the company is not at all worried about seeing a dip in engagement metrics as a result.
The company is no stranger to bucking the norm and being the first to speak up when it feels compelled to do so. After the shooting in Parkland FL, the company made the decision to ban guns from its user photos and based in Austin, TX, the company headquarters which prioritizes culture above all else, is quite unlike its Silicon Valley competitors.
For Wolfe Herd, who originally left Tinder after claiming sexual harassment by cofounder and ex-boyfriend Justin Mateen, self-care is paramount in this new chapter in her life. Snooze, is a feature she personally relates to needing as a part of that self-care.
âI too found myself getting lost in social media when I should have been more present in the moment. I was missing out on what was happening right next to me just to scroll through endless images of other peopleâs lives. As a result, I turned off all social media for 3 weeks and it was eye-opening. I was uncomfortable at first, which only validated why I needed to take a break, but then after a few days I felt great and far more present,â says Wolfe Herd.
So far, the company reports that response to the new feature, which was first launched one week ago, has received an overwhelmingly positive response from users. Itâs Wolfe Herdâs hope that other social platforms take note and recognize their own contribution to the problem of screen addiction, âItâs upon the leaders of the tech and media space to champion this cause and help their users live a healthier digital life,â says Wolfe Herd.
It appears that a few other companies are beginning to consider their own new features aimed at addressing the problem. Recently, Youtube introduced settings features that display time spent on the app as well as the ability to generate reminders to take a break from viewing. Last month, Facebook announced new features for users to monitor time spent on the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps 'coming soon.' Slated for release in the coming weeks, Apple's iOS 12 update will include a new app called Screen Time that will allow users to monitor where they spend their time and is preparing to beta test do not disturb modes. Android's new Android P operating system which has begun a rolling release over the next few months promises similar features including a dashboard that displays user activity, do not disturb modes and app timers.
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Bumble doesnât want you to delete your account when you get into a relationship, go on vacation or just need a break from your phone. So today itâs launching a Snooze button that lets you stop showing up to people swiping through potential matches for a day, three days, a week or indefinitely. Youâll also get to select an away message, like âIâm traveling,â âIâm on a digital detox,â âIâm focusing on workâ or âIâm prioritizing myself,â that will show up with existing matches with whom youâre chatting.
The feature could ensure that Bumbleâs 40 million registered users (announced today) arenât flirting with an empty vacuum if their match goes AWOL from Bumble temporarily. And for users who turn it on, Snooze could reduce their FOMO about potentially missing out on a match or looking like they ignored someoneâs message.
âThe impact of social media, especially on young women, has the potential to be very harmful and we have a responsibility to give our users the power to disconnect on their own terms whenever they see fit,â writes Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. âWe know Snooze will allow them to come back to us feeling refreshed and more open to new connections.â
Tinder has its own Pause button, but itâs bundled alongside the account deletion button and has less intention and flexibility behind it. You can merely turn it on or off. Without the proper away messages, matches could think youâre just trying to ghost them.
When Bumble and non-Bumble users were recently surveyed, more than 60 percent of women ages 18 to 24 said they felt overwhelmed by social media. Sixty percent of women surveyed also spend more than two hours a day on social media. Bumbleâs in-house sociologist, Dr. Jessica Carbino, writes that âOn social media, young women can develop unrealistic perceptions of what they should be or how others see them. These unrealistic expectations may ultimately have negative consequences for their physical and emotional well-being.â
Wolfe Herd explains that âYes, we are absolutely social media and with that comes both healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Thatâs exactly why we developed snooze as a feature to give our users a break for self care on their own terms. If you donât invest in your users, youâll lose them.â
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Dating apps are subject to high churn rates as people find long-time partners or age out of different apps. They must do everything they can to keep people on the app to both maximize the potential match pool and their chances of selling premium services to their users. Snooze feels as much like a retention trick as a benevolent offering, but if it means people can take a break from their phones in peace, itâs nice to have.
For more on Snooze and Bumble, check out its CEOâs talk today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF.
Soon, you can enable a snooze mode on Bumble #TCDisruptpic.twitter.com/zH8JZ5iIYg
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