Think about the current designs of various social media platforms: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter (X), Snapchat, and Youtube. What harmful features do these platforms utilize? In what ways can we change them to be less addicting, polarizing, or misleading — and recenter social media around connection? Should connection be the purpose of social media, or do you believe in a different use for it? We want your ideas.

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Submit a video no longer than 3 minutes.

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Content

Ensure that you...​

Share your name

Describe the challenges of a certain experience with social media

Propose how you would alter the platform to create a more positive user experience

Note: we recommend focusing on only ONE of the apps listed​ above

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Delivery

Filmed horizontally

Good lighting

Include other materials (i.e. graphics or drawings) in the second File Upload of the submission form

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If you have any questions, please email us at hello@unwiring.org.

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Where to Start

Here are resources to get inspired...​

The CFHT's Change-Making Framework: complex problems can be fought across levels. From politics, to the business model, to specific platform changes — here are different lenses for social media reform.

Unwiring's Topics Overview: a slideshow that outlines the inner-workings, psychology, and impacts of social media.

• All high school students (9-12 grade) in the U.S. are eligible to participate in the ReDesign Challenge.