Social Media: Time for a Break?
Stefanie Panke,
AACE Review,
Dec 21, 2021
When it first started social media was great. Blogs and the blogosphere were so much fun. Places like Mastodon today are like that. This article makes it clear what the problem is with the rest. To quote Jaron Lanier: "The problem is not the Internet or social media in a broad sense but rather specifically the use of the algorithms... anytime anybody connected with somebody else it was financed by third party whose motivation was to manipulate what happened. Then the whole business model was about how to manipulate more and more. What that results in is people being directed rather than exploring and that makes the world small." Small. That's a really good word for it. Like, when I'm looking for something to watch on YouTube, I feel the walls of the algorithm closing in on me.
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