![]() Jason Calacanis, as you know, he's a good friend of yours, a good friend of mine, he's someone who can do that. I don't know that you need to delete Facebook and Twitter, but you should know the principles about how those were designed and why you do what you do every time you log on and why you share the secrets behind the "like" button. ![]() Read also: Europe tries to fight hate, harassment, and fake news without killing free speech - Columbia Journalism Reviewīrian Solis: The easy answer is everything in moderation, right? That this is a time, as corny as this may sound, of mindfulness and really understanding who we are and what we're trying to be and then take that insight and apply it to how we decide to use technology. So smartphones and social media have such an effect on our self-esteem that should we all be deleting these apps from our mobile? ![]() Tonya Hall: Jason Calacanis, a very popular venture capitalist and startup entrepreneur, has been proudly claiming he deleted Facebook and Twitter apps from his phone. Maybe it's time that we take tech back that we take control over tech instead of letting tech control us." We're all sharing every moment of what's happening here and before and after. I wanted to share all of the insights that I got from that research and also, more so, to just talk to real people in the audience to say, " Gosh, we're here. We're really at a crossroads between digital and humanity. No one taught us how to use these things and how to stay true and strong throughout it, and this is a real important time that I think we have to take a step back in order to move forward. It's because it's just all happening so fast that no one taught us to be ready. The deeper I got, the more I learned about how technology was designed to be addictive and manipulative, and really the more I learned, the more I wanted to learn more.Īnd I walked away feeling like, " Why isn't this being talked about? Why isn't this research out there? Why aren't there massive studies that are helping parents and teachers and employers and colleagues and peers and role models?" And I realized, wow, this is a time where no wonder why politics are what they are on Facebook and in social media and why there are Russian bots. Not just our self-esteem, but it turns out that the deeper I got, it was almost like this investigative report. I interviewed people from 13-years-old to 61-years-old, and there's a direct correlation between all of this stuff, and how we live life. After finishing that research, I walked away a changed person. I finished a year-long research project for a global beauty-brand that's pretty much a household name, and they wanted to understand how social media and smartphones were affecting self-esteem, their personal definitions of beauty, and how they saw themselves in the world. This is a time to talk about our relationship with technology. Read also: Fake news problem: Facebook is a media company run by engineers It's one of those places where everybody uses it as a soapbox and a platform, for whatever they're working on or maybe to draw attention to themselves or to their efforts or causes. What is it that you're gonna be talking about?īrian Solis: Yeah, well like you said, South-by-Southwest is one of those things where I think you and I can geek out over drinks one day about all of the years that we've been going to South-by-Southwest and what a community it's built for the tech world. You did something, like I said, a little different though. South-by-Southwest is a big platform to showcase your work. ![]() Tonya Hall: You're gonna be at South-by-Southwest. What we do is we study emerging technology as and before it's becoming disruptive, and then we explore its impact on business now and over time, and we essentially are a research-tank and think-tank, and from there, we share our research around the world and help organizations know how to compete for the future. What do you guys do there exactly though?īrian Solis: Well, for all the geeks out there, they can appreciate. Tonya Hall: It has, and you're doing well at Altimeter Group.
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