"You can choose not to go to a gym for the rest of your life, but still walk around [In the Metaverse] with biceps that make bodybuilders jealous. There is no limit here.

This is a gateway to body dysmorphia on steroids. What happens when we’re so accustomed to our gorgeous, fantasy selves that we can no longer stand to look at our imperfect, real-world faces and bodies?"

- #PreetiKotamarthi

"We have known about the echo chambers on social media for a while. Social media algorithms are designed to learn what you like and keep showing you content that fits that bill — which is to say, content that you are likely to agree with."

- #PreetiKotamarthi

Not necessarily. It's more likely to show content chosen for its potential to enrage.

"... take today’s social media, add a splash of sophisticated 3D, fold in a plethora of options for entertainment and gaming, garnish it all with data-driven personalization, and you are all set to take away your order of a supersized social media network, the Metaverse."

- #PreetiKotamarthi

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Brave New World: How the Metaverse May Shape Our Psychology - The Decision Lab

The Metaverse is the hottest topic in tech and beyond. But if we don’t plan for the dawn of this new world, we risk repeating past mistakes

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