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Social Media Safety and Intelligence
Rating: 4.0 out of 5(8 ratings)
20 students

Social Media Safety and Intelligence

How to protect yourself on Social Media and Deal with Toxicity and Propaganda
Created byMichael Goedeker
Last updated 11/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Recognise What Social Networks Are
  • How Social Networks Keep Us Distracted and Hooked
  • How to Deal with Toxic and Negative Social Network Users
  • Recognising and Stoping Cyberbullying and Attackers on Social Media

Course content

3 sections • 8 lectures • 2h 23m total length

  • Why create the social network shaman?4:31

    What experiences like attacks, attackers, research and depression lead to the necessity to create a training system and app that helps people recognise and deal with toxic people on social media? I talk about my own and friends negative experiences using social networks for business.

  • Social Media Users and Demographics16:36

    How many users globally are found on social networks? This lecture talks about how and when advertisers build groups of potential customers, how these are targeted and how many billions of people actually use social media in the world today.

  • Social Network Demographics
  • Building and getting a social network audience16:35

    This lecture looks at how advertisers build monitoring groups and how are these targeted by interest groups that send out propaganda and toxic messaging. We also learn more about the actual reason why social networks were created (hint: to make millions of dollars in advertising revenue).

  • What did you learn?

Requirements

  • Know what social networks are
  • Know what the internet is

Description

This course helps you understand what social networks are and why they were created. It also helps us understand how they target us and how they make us addicted to them. It also teaches us how to use social networks while discovering and stoping the toxicity and negativity that creates depression.

We start by looking at how social networks are built then we move on to how they target people and create audiences for advertising. Advertising systems are used by advertisers to target and collect data on all users across multiple networks. These applications also collect data about everything we do on our smart phones and computers which makes targeting us much easier.

Topics discussed in this course:

  1. How Social Networks Are Built

  2. How Social Networks Target Groups of People

  3. How false news, propaganda and interest groups use social networks to spread lies

  4. What Cyber Risks and Threats are Hidden in Social Media

  5. How to recognise and stop toxicity and negative interactions on social networks

  6. What mental health issues are seen by people who use social media

We then look at the risks and how social network apps create anxiety and depression through sustained usage via mobile apps that keep us hooked via endorphin releases (likes). This course is based on research done on the mental health issues created by social media apps and usage as well as cyberbullying and how unvetted advertisers spread fake news and propaganda. Additional research in my book The Social Media Dilemma on Amazon shows how social networks effects on mental health such as depression, suicides, attention deficits as well as negative body image.

Who this course is for:

  • Everyone who uses social media or networks online
  • Anyone that uses social networks either privately or for business
  • Anyone that has a social media app installed on a smartphone or laptop and uses these
  • People who are addicted to internet services or social networks

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