How Everyday Apps Shape Human Behaviour

Have you ever sat down to think if technology is using you or you're using technology?
Every tap, every swipe, and every scroll isn’t just you using technology.

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1. Uyo Utibe Etim Mobile Software Engineer, Miva @Uticodes How Everyday Apps Shape Human Behaviour
2. Every tap, Every swipe, and Every scroll isn’t just you using technology;
3. Have you ever sat down to think if technology is using you?
4. How many of you have ever opened an app and forgotten why you opened it?
5. Uyo The Down Side: When Apps Control Us
6. Uyo The Exchange Could be hidden or not
7. • Infinite Scroll → Time Drain. • Push Notifications → Anxiety Triggers. • You get connection → they get data.
8. The exchange: • Every app trades value for behavior. • You get convenience → they get attention. • You get connection → they get data.
9. If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.
10. Uyo The Bright Side: When We Shape Apps
11. • Learning → Knowledge gain. • Wellbeing → Exercise. • Creativity → Innovation. • Productivity → Stop procrastination.
12. Uyo “What’s one app that genuinely makes your life better?”
13. Uyo “Apps can either drain our time or design our growth; it depends on our intention.” 2025
14. Uyo Bridging the Two
15. “Every app feature is a fork in the road: One version steals time; the other gives it back.” “Our job as developers, designers, and users is to choose and create wisely.”
16. Uyo “If we don’t manage our screens, our screens will manage us.
17. Uyo “If we don’t manage our screens, our screens will manage us.
18. Uyo So build. Think. Dream. And let technology follow your rhythm, not the other way around.”
19. Uyo Utibe Etim @Uticodes Thank you!