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today on shift. ah, so how do develop is gauge the success of the apps? well, it's all about the retention rate, the percentage of users who continue using the app within a given time. in other words, the amount of users staying glued to those screens. the goal of these developers, they want us to spend as much time as possible on their app. the biggest, the engine for engagement and habit forming products is always a variable reward. so a variable role was studied by be a skinner, the thought of operant conditioning. and he found that when a reward is given on an a variable schedule of reinforcement, this increases the action the desired behavior. so in all sorts of things that we find engaging, you will find a variable ward at developers want to know as much about us as possible. many apps collect our data and create incredibly accurate user profiles. these are then

turned into profit through targeted advertising. getting uses hooked is not only a strategy used by social media apps like instagram and tick. tock is also used by shopping apps like the chinese clothing retailer sheehan. earlier in 2022. sheehan was estimated to be worth about $100000000000.00 us dollars more than the valuation of zora and haitian m. combined company secret to success using our data for clever marketing. they have a blended business model which is only e commerce, but also social network. honestly, they also have a pretty robust operations physical operations. so this 3 pillars, social media, data, data corporations, data, if it's all orchestrated and combined is gives them the clothing retailer sheehan harnesses user data to tailor the perfect marketing strategy. it has created an entire ecosystem around its products. the app is a hybrid platform of sales and social media. and one tab,

you can browse through items and in another you can watch influencers, modeling the look. you can of course comment or like, or simply buy the product with a tab of a button. they're getting more information about your preferences as opposed to just saying, hey, do you like this? sure, if you like that, sure you're commenting or liking or watching a video where somebody is using one of their items and that makes the product better with use. so called p opinion leaders, booster brands value table, perry, little nasa x and rita, or just a few of the celebrities to have elaborated with c in the perhaps even more important is the army of micro influencer. she works with some are rewarded for their tick tock, post with free clothing. others are commission for the clicks on their post that turn in to sales on she ins website. 2 it's easy to get drawn in by they celebrities and influences and as uses we reveal exactly what we

luck with the help of smart data analysis. she can identify trends at lightning speed and produce clothing quickly and cheaply. if any given autumn goes borrow, it can then be reproduced, an al data helps feed this cycle. she and uses a variety of tools to find online fashion tracks. the aim is to identify our desires and capitalize on them, compelling us to spend more time on the app. she in isn't only collecting our data, it's cross linking it to they are pretty efficient in data triangulation, which is combining data from different sources. they have basically more relevant data and our, our, any other that's a normal fast fashion brand. by running such data through smart algorithms, she and tries to predict what items might interest customers in the future. precisely how such analysis works remains she ins, well guarded secret, tick, tock, instagram, and youtube also use algorithms to show users, videos,

they may light tick tock, especially excels. at this, the app uses a i to scan and identify certain elements and videos and play them for users with similar viewing habits. on tick tock, it's possible for anyone to get their 15 minutes of fame with a popular video on instagram. going viral depends more on craters, reach and how their content has performed in the past. with a steady stream of new and attention grabbing content. it's so easy to just get caught up in an endless scroll through talk and also develop his art total experts, a playing without sense of foam of all fear of missing out. they just use pretty standard, so called behavioral design methods. it's over use may cause people being cooked into so called infinite loops. so pretty clever notifications, which if you don't open, it may cause the syndrome ok here. missing out there is,

this is this behavioral design when it starts to be harmful and i guess she is an extreme ups lexianne turn your visit into a kind of game and one which you don't always win from a psychology standpoint. the she and app really leverage is what's called a variable rewards or intermittent reinforcement. and this is the center of what i call the hope model. much like you go to a casino and there's this, the excitement of gambling because there's uncertainty around what you might when the fun of watching a sports match, right? you don't know where the ball is going to go next. what team is going to score? there's a very similar mechanic in an app like she in or social media for that example that scrolling of searching and searching and scrolling is amplified and she and, and now brian totally falls for it. there are various situations which dopamine is released in our brain. for instance, when we eat exercise or receive a present, this neurotransmitter active a feeling of happiness and the rewards center of our brain. motivating us to repeat

the same behaviors. there's kind of a popular perception in the media that doesn't mean as like cocaine, that it gets you to do things against your will. and that's totally inaccurate. that doesn't mean reinforces learning. it reinforce lease mileage sheets between the neurons in your brain to make those connections stronger, that neurons that fire together wired together. and so dope, i mean is like the sealant for the glue around these connections. ab developers take advantage of that motivating effect. i mean, they keep us coming back with virtual trophies, bonus points, and progress notifications. the audio book service audible, for instance, rewards members with badges and vouchers for extended listening. our brain learns that listening for longer is good. the strategy here is gamification. gamification means to use game like mechanics and non gaming environments, points, badges,

leader boards typically, ah, language learning ab, thank pursue and do only go also use such mechanisms. progress bars show how far we're advancing in our lessons. this motivates us and even partial success is released dopamine in our brain a hearty congratulations from the app mix, as even happier, as does moving up in the ranking. is it a bit manipulative? yes. but is it bad, per se? well, that depends. of course products are designed to be engaging. that is their very purpose. so for an app can't get you to go exercise. if it can't get you to learn a language, if it can't make you more productive at work, that company's going to go out of business that the whole point of these type of products. so gamification elements help motivate us, for instance, to learn for this can become problematic when money enters the picture. the practice of using gamification to get uses hooked on an app, and then start charging the money is fairly common. in the free version of dual

lingo, only a limited number of mistakes are allowed before you have to restart the lesson. extra attempts can be made in exchange for payment in the paid version. there's no limit to how many mistakes you can make. many fitness apps like strosver or adi, das running only on mark group challenges and trophies in the full versions she and also uses game elements to keep us on the platform for longer users get points for logging in daily and reviewing products and points can be exchanged for discounts now, when they're our products and services that might take more of something more valuable . so it's not just your time and attention, but your money. then we have special conditions, right? then we need special restraints to make sure that people are making decisions that they know don't low regret later on, on average, people spend about 3 hours a day on their phones. of course, that number varies greatly depending on how old you are and where you're from. and

we check our phones $58.00 times a day, and that's just an average. the problem isn't solely how much time we're spending on apps. it's also how frequently we're using them. studies show that every single interruption hampers are productivity. so reaching out for potential means we'll likely have to put down our phones to prevent apps from taking over our lives. it's crucial to set boundaries to save us from ourselves, to prevent distraction with packed patches. when you make a pre commitment to do what you're say, you're going to do. so if you say ok, i'm going to use a twitter for 30 minutes and i have a alarm clock that goes off. and if it go, if i'm still using after x, y, z, i have to pay a penalty, or i'm going to have a friend and force it, or whatever the case might be. all kinds of ways that you can use these packs to make sure you do what it is you say you're going to do with your time. i can start out by analyzing your own behavior functions such as screen time on i phones and

digital well being on android review, how much of your time each app consumes. that will help you determine which apps you should take. a break from. instagram has a feature reminding users to take breaks to get them fresh air or to tackle a to do. there are also apps designed to boost productivity by game of fine, your daily life. with super better you team up with others to take on typing up challenges, for instance. with apps like epic when or have been a cause you can watch your avatar ascend through gaming levels that you take off to do in your real. ah, you can exchange gold coins for better equipment for your avatar, but beware, even these apps can't guarantee motivation in the long run. many times gamification doesn't work very well, because it's doing what we call selling chocolate covered broccoli. i'm going to take something, people say they want, they say they want to eat healthy broccoli, but they don't really want to. so i'm going to take chocolate and i'm going to put

on top of the broccoli, and now i'm going to serve it to you. now, will you need it? will know nobody wants to cover broccoli. it's gross. no. oh, it's important to decide what you want out of life and set intentions. because with an inner sense of purpose, even the most addictive apps will be powerless against you. one more tip to help save you from addictive apps, at least at night time, instead of your phone, try using a classic alarm clock that way you can banish your phone from your bedroom, resulting hopefully in bed asleep, better concentration and more productivity. what tips do you have against addictive apps right in and let us know that's all for today. see you next time. ah ah

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