This article was eye opening to me. It highlights the moral challenge engineers face over being asked to violate user data. I think it is admirable that Steve left over this but it makes me think about all of them that didnt.

This is so true. Many people set out to do good only to faced with the corruption of the world. Money is often the cause of this corruption and when money loses value it becomes power and that is how we end up with people who set out to do good and end up doing the worst.

This Guardian article frames public shaming as a tool for community action and seeking justice.

This is right public shaming has been a core part of human culture. There are countless books and movies that demonstrate this. One example that comes to mind is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne this book shows public shaming in the 17th century and the concepts live on. The book was even adapted later into a new representation of public shaming modern day with the movie Easy A staring Emma Stone.

This wikipedia page details the FBI package sent to MLK as an attempt to coerce him into leaving leadership (by suicide or just leaving) or to refuse the Noble Prize he won in '64. The package included a suicide note and blackmail material.

It has been very interesting to see the way online harassment has changed with the introduction of tiktok into media. Harassment that has previously been limited to people within a community can within hours become harassment from millions with one viral video.

This is a wonderful example of when using social media to find people can be good. Unlike the reddit used to try to identify one of the Boston bombers this Twitter search was a positive example of how online communities can come together to help people.

This is a great example of harm that can be done by the internet. It may have been unintended but there was harm nonetheless. When people have the ability to use the internet to find people it can be a great tool, however when there is a tragic event emotions run high and it is easy for that panic to translate into unintentional harm. This case is a good example of the snowball effect that can happen if one person gets something wrong and everyone assumes they are right out of fear or pride.

This kind of moderation has gotten better over the years but is still not entirety fool proof. It is still fairly easy to access copyrighted material and I often wonder if this is intentional.

I think that social media is an important resource for many people so they can connect with communities outside their direct access.

This is content I often see on social media, it could be content related to books, shows or movies ("I read ___ so you don't have to"). However this kind of content related to food reminds me of tiktok trends in 2020 where people were trying weird food or watching people try weird foods out of pure boredom. This could be a kind of trolling, people trying bad or weird food combinations to get views, engagement or create discourses online.

This passage made me think about how memes are almost like a game of telephone throughout online communities and across generations. A millennial may see the same meme in a completely different way than someone in generation z or alpha and visa versa.

This article highlights how the internet is forever even if we don't want it to be. It is interesting to me because although I have always been careful what I post on social media it had never really occurred to me that something could unintentionally go viral and remind me of a bad time in my life forever.

This is so interesting to me. The idea that recommendation algorithms use our data to show us what they think we want to see/buy. In my experience with recommendation algorithms they are fairly accurate and that is a little scary.

This source explains generalized anxiety disorder. It is important for people to have at least a general understanding of anxiety disorders as they are very common.

This chapter does a good job explaining that disabilities can present in different ways. The chapter includes great examples and descriptions on how society views disabilities and the way some have been accepted or integrated into "normal" society while others have not. Social media has helped make great strides in "normalizing" a variety of disabilities.

I can see how this is true. Meta using selling information to ad agencies can easily lead to leaks and scams from other sources.

This article is documenting that Facebook stored passwords of users in a way that made them accessible to around 200,000 employees. I don't fear my information being "leaked" due to lack of assets that are desirable but that could just be a lack of understanding but this did concern me.

I have seen these kinds of trolls so often and didn't realize they had a name. It will be easier to identify them and disregard or report.

This is an impressive example of collective support and online activism. I think utilizing social media "trolling" can be a effective way of stopping harmful initiatives I have seen things similar to this a few times.

This was a very interesting article that sheds light on Trumps social media habits and how data science can be used to distinguish who tweets are coming from. It is interesting to see the type of data they used to find out if it was Trump himself tweeting or his staff.

This is something I haven't considered. We have systematically limited the trust humans need to have in each other and yet we still search for reasons not to trust or to trust each other.

I wish this was still more popular! Bring back blogging about random things. I think it would eliminate a lot of bad things about social media.

Data doesn’t capture nuance and context. It often chooses the simplest easiest to understand. This can be good but also harmful too. It creates unrealistic standards for many different things.

This is something I had considered but didn't realize that it could go unnoticed. I like to believe that I would be able to tell a bot from a real person posting but I am starting to think that that may not be the case. That is unnerving to me.

I remember when this happened. I went to a UW TedTalk in 2023 that was focusing on how AI and bots need to be raised similar to toddlers due to the bias on the internet.

I think it is important to note that social media has also been used to create social movements (e.g No Kings BLM as well as #metoo)

The concept of what is moral and immoral is something that I think religious groups use as a beacon then use the people who want to be good moral people to gain power.

I took a CMS class where we spoke a lot about the ENIAC and human computers. These women were incredible and I am excited to learn how to code.

I think this connection is interesting and I wonder if it was found to be true for other brands as well that rely on scents.