Former Couchsurfing exec Joe Edelman, who coined the phrase ‘Time Well Spent,’ talks to Moneyish about why Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat need to do a better job of reflecting human values
Most of our time on the internet just isn’t well spent.
That’s according to Joe Edelman, Couchsurfing’s former chief technology officer and a leading thinker on how we use the internet. And the man who claims to have coined the now buzzy phrase “Time Well Spent” in 2013, is far from alone. Activist investors Jana Partners recently called on Apple Inc. to be more responsive to youth phone addiction, while Facebook also just redesigned its newsfeed amid a torrent of criticism about its enabling of so-called Fake News.
Edelman, who was educated at Dartmouth and once trained Buddhist monks in the Dalai Lama’s monastery, doesn’t have an app to make those woes go away. But in two well-received essays recently published on Medium, he makes the case for how a better internet can be constructed. The gist of his argument is that social media platforms have been designed so that people engage with them as much as possible, but this has spawned a culture where values we prize in real-life, like vulnerability and honesty, aren’t rewarded. In their absence, toxic values rise.
Source: moneyish.com
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