The Second Season of our documentary series. Join german founders. As they explore our digital. Sally starts november twenty fourth w. Share first living in the digital age coming up. Self is. Books on instagram and whimsical machines on vimeo but first addicted to Facebook Snapchat and Similar Digital Services deliberately integrate mechanisms into their software to get users hooked former employees are raising the alarm in
an effort to protect young users. Its recess time to check out the latest pics and videos on platforms like snap chat or instagram. Who think it is not so in our generation is really tied up with the media social media platforms are important to us even at a young age she wouldnt want to miss anything i mean its sort of they take up a few hours of my day in palm maybe three or four hours a day if youre still numb talk so whats the central goal effective nature of social media is not only an issue when us talk shows but around the globe campaigns like that a former
days in a row and something called the streak next to every single person in your kid s contacts they say if you ve got thirty friends they say here s the number of days in a row you ve spent you ve sent a message to each friend and it keeps each of them hot. snapchat strategy certainly seems to be working. but you have those one hundred people that take it really seriously and his defense streak starts fading this hourglass pops up and they ll call to say send me a snap our glasses we can t lose our streak for longer. than a thomas years as a professor at the addiction research center in hamburg he found that two point six percent of german youth are affected by what he calls a social media disorder this can impact the whole of society as addiction quickly leads to depression. i didn t like the climate well i don t want to sound too bleak but i see a huge tsunami coming towards us right now and divide to go. of in fact we re