This week for Digital Citizenship, we have been looking at how companies and brands trick us into spending more money. Apps trick us by using something called Data Mining. It’s when your device remembers something you looked or searched up and finds apps that match it. For example, if you like football, and you searched up football things, the device your using will probably send you ads that are related to football. Other tricks that shopping apps use to deceive you is that they make shopping into something fun like a game. For example, one app makes you coming back every day by giving you a virtual fish to take care of. If you don’t come back one day and miss feeding it, it will die. And if you complete taking care of it, then you will get a prize. Our task was to make a video explaining this with a buddy. This is an example of what I made. Hope you like it! Please leave me a comment!