Process:

Initial Brainstorm / Concept Generation

Due to social media's dangers being so pronounced as part of the zeitgeist in 2018 we adopted that as our topic, and began creating scenarios based of the basic scenario of:

Person A gets the bot. The bot helps him/her post something on social media that gains lots of popularity. The person starts to trust the bot

Scenarios

1.  Over time, the person relies more and more on the bot to deal with his social interactions with others. one night, he has a really good date. Both of them goes back home separately and uses bots to communicate with each other. The bots somehow create lots of miscommunications and eventually the two people decide not to talk to each other anymore.

2.  The social bot post something super popular for the protagonist -> the person starts trusting the bot 2) the person goes to a job interview but fails, "i wish you could be there, pooh" and then one day he receives a promo email saying that he can update the pooh so that pooh can talk to him remotely in his head whenever he wants. The person chooses this service because he wants to have better in-person interaction as well 3) he becomes more and more relying on the pooh and gradually the pooh controls what he thinks.

3. The person starts trusting the bot more because he posted something super popular, and then the bot tells him one day that someone unfollowed them and he becomes obsessed with gaining more friends. And the more he listens to the bot the more new friends online he gains, but his real friends start to dislike him. The issue is he is posting obnoxious things that get a lot of likes typically, but they are annoying/braggy/insensitive/showing off his money etc. Then by the end he has 100k followers but when he calls his good friends they don't pick up the phone

Storyboard