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  1. Feb 2024
    1. What dangers are posed with languages that have limited or no content moderation? What do you think Facebook should do about this?

      Languages with limited or no content moderation can harbor various dangers, including the proliferation of misinformation, hate speech, and harassment. These platforms risk fostering online toxicity and social division without effective moderation measures. As a major social media platform, Facebook should prioritize implementing robust content moderation systems, fostering digital literacy among users, and collaborating with stakeholders to combat online harms effectively.

    1. In the contexts of social media and public debate, moderation has a meaning that is about creating limits and boundaries about what is posted to keep things working well.

      While moderation in social media refers to the act of setting limits and boundaries to maintain order and functionality, its ethical counterpart, rooted in virtue ethics, emphasizes balance and temperance in all aspects of life. In essence, the concept of moderation bridges the gap between the tangible actions taken to regulate online content and the broader ethical principle of achieving harmony and equilibrium in one's conduct and decisions.

    1. 您有哪些社交媒体网站为您提供特别好的推荐的经历? 您有哪些社交媒体网站为您提供特别糟糕的推荐的经历?

      I think the recommandation algorithm has both the good side and the bad side. The good side is that it do provides some content that I am instereted in, and the bad size is that it created the "information cocoon", which means I can't receive infomatons rather than my insterest rang, and thatr decreases my opportunity of getting new informations from diffierent perspectives and different aeras.

    1. So open a social media site on your device (the website or app may have additional accessibility settings, but don’t use those for now, just consider how it works as it is currently). Then do the following (preferably on paper or in a blank computer document):

      Surprisingly, I found that nearly every apps on my phone are lack of disability support( or maybe I did find them, but even I can't find them, how a real disabled person can?) I think that maybe because I turn off the disability support on the setting of my phone. If that's on, I think the disabilities support can be used. One app that have a great disability support is that Amazon video, it has a function called: video to audio, that describe every scene on the video in a audio. It is friendly and helpful for the people with visual disability.

    1. Disabilities can even be situational disabilities, like the loss of fine motor skills when wearing thick gloves in the cold, or trying to watch a video on your phone in class with the sound off, or trying to type on a computer while holding a baby.

      I am surprised by the definition and examples of situational disabilities. I always thought that disability are always happens on the structure of physical body, like the permanent and temporary disabilitiees. Now I just learnt that I am sometimes disabled in daily life. It is also important for the development of tools and softwares to consider the situaitonal disabilities.

    1. What are your biggest concerns around privacy on social media? What incentives do social media companies have to protect privacy?

      My biggest concern is that personal informations can be leaked by the "trade behind" between social media companies. Actually the situation is already happened. Sometimes I can receive emails and phone calls from some companies that I don't recognize, and even the fraud phone calls. If the intensity keep going on, the situaton is going to be really bad.

    1. So for example, Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text, meaning the passwords weren’t encrypted and anyone with access to the database could simply read everyone’s passwords.

      Facebook is definitely acting stupid on this action. Plain text is one of the format that is most easily being decrypted. Facebook's action is putting user's privacy and security in danger.

  2. Jan 2024
    1. Then you can hopefully see a really long list of who Google thinks you are and what Google thinks you might be interested in, like this:

      This is insteresting. I don't know there is a page like this, and I am surprised that Google makes it transparent to the users. Its shows my insterests such as video games, music and skateboarding. It is even detailed as "action games" and "platformer", the genres of video games. They are correct, I do insterested in them. I am surprised by the acuracy of data mining.

    1. It turns out that if you look at a lot of data, it is easy to discover spurious correlations where two things look like they are related, but actually aren’t. Instead, the appearance of being related may be due to chance or some other cause. For example:

      In real life, spurious correlationsd are really common, and it is causing many misunderstanding, and sometimes they correlations are seems to be related to each other but actually not, which makes the audience believe in it. For example, the cost of electricity is correlated to how much people spend on education, but actually caused by inflation

    1. Have you witnessed different responses to trolling? What happened in those cases? What do you think is the best way to deal with trolling?

      Yes, I see many differernt responses to trolls. Some people gets angry, some people just don't care. I think how to respond depends on the situations. If the harassers are small in number, then seek help and fight back can be useful. If they gets large in number, then keeping silence and ignore the infomations can be the situation.

    1. Amusement: Trolls often find the posts amusing, whether due to the disruption or emotional reaction. If the motivation is amusement at causing others’ pain, that is called doing it for the lulz. Gatekeeping: Some trolling is done in a community to separate out an ingroup from outgroup (sometimes called newbies or normies). The ingroup knows that a post is just trolling, but the outgroup is not aware and will engage earnestly. This is sometimes known as trolling the newbies. Feeling Smart: Going with the gatekeeping role above, trolling can make a troll or observer feel smarter than others, since they are able to see that it is trolling while others don’t realize it. Feeling Powerful: Trolling sometimes gives trolls a feeling of empowerment when they successfully cause disruption or cause pain.** Advance and argument / make a point: Trolling is sometimes done in order to advance an argument or make a point. For example, proving that supposedly reliable news sources are gullible by getting them to repeat an absurd gross story. Punish or stop: Some trolling is in service of some view of justice, where a person, group or organization is viewed as doing som

      This breakdown of why people trolling is great. People have the primitive intend to trust each other, but trolling seems to be the the the opposite of it. THat's because there are many othger reasons behind this. This reaons makes the interactions between people more compliticated and decreases the mutual turst. Espeicially on internet where there is no cost to lie

    1. How do you notice yourself changing how you express yourself in different situations, particularly on social media? Do you feel like those changes or expressions are authentic to who you are, do they compromise your authenticity in some way?

      It is a really great question and honestly I don't know how to answer it. For me it is not only the social media, but in every aspects of real life: I behave like different person in front of different people. Sometimes I faces the "Context Collapse". I don't know which persona is the real me. It is a common issue for the modern people, because people must to pretend to have a nice behave. Only few people are really themselves all the time.

    1. When someone presents themselves as open and as sharing their vulnerabilities with us, it makes the connection feel authentic. We feel like they have entangled their wellbeing with ours by sharing their vulnerabilities with us.

      I think it is true, when someones reveals their vulnerabilities, it is a sign of showing non-threating and authentic. It is the rule from the ancient time, but now the situations may be more complicated. Showing vulnerabilities may be suspected as fake, an action to gain trust, and if someone really shows vulnerabiities, his/her competitors may use them to take advantages of the person. In other word, people are harder to get authentic connections these days.

    1. While mainstream social media platforms grew in popularity, there was a parallel growth of social media platforms that were based on having “no rules”, and were sources for many memes and pieces of internet culture, as well as hubs of much anti-social behavior (e.g., trolling, harassment, hate-groups, murders, etc.).

      The emergense of these platforms are definitely causing some negative effect to the community and internet environment, however, I think they are also reflections of inclusiveness of internet and free speech. People need a place on the internet to be the "junk field" so that they won't be aggressive on other mainsteam social media. However, browsing these website and become a deep user is absolutely an unhealthy way of using the internet.

    1. newspapers and pamphlets were full of rumors and conspiracy theories. And now as the internet and social media have taken off in the early 2000s, we are again in a world full of rumors and conspiracy theories.

      I think it is pretty instresting. In my thought, I always think that newspapaer is something serious. Only the important events go to the newspaper, but it is not in the 1900s. After the invention of internet, the newspaper seems to be serious again, like the newspaper now. All the rumer and conspiracy parts goes to the internet, and we are living at a new world full of rumors. What a loop of history.

    1. If we are writing down what someone said, we are losing their tone of voice, accent, etc.

      This is so true. I think it is the main reason why online chating can cause more disunderstanding than real conversation. In communication, the face and the tone is a important factor of emotion, but seeing only text does not express that. The emojis can help people to understand the emotion of the speaker, but nowadays many emojis has developed a different meaning than its original intension. That's also how the older generation can't understand the new generation online.

    1. Now it’s your turn, choose some data that you might want to store on a social media type, and think through the storage types and constraints you might want to use: Age Name Address Relationship status

      The example of gender is seen in many apps. The options for gender are always lists with a "other" options. For the following data, age should be integer, Name should be String, Address should be Streing, Relationship status can be a boolean (yes or no)

    1. In 2016, Microsft launched a Twitter bot that was intended to learn to speak from other Twitter users and have conversations. Twitter users quickly started tweeting racist comments at Tay, which Tay learned from and started tweeting out within one day.

      I think it is ironic and even funny to see this happen. For a bot, it is really important to make sure that its leanring pool: the resoruces where it learns is correct and safe. The environment of platforms on the internet is not always an approprite resources for bot to study.

    1. Though we might consider these to be run by “human computers” who are following the instructions given to them, such as in a click farm:

      I am shocked and surprised to see the image. I did not know the "click farm" exists before. I am curious about who are paying these people to do the job and how much do they get paid. From the phones from the image I can tell it is many years ago. I think that now these kind of 'job' is disappeared since the acutual bot can do more without being paid.

    1. Confucianism

      Confucianism is a general phoilophy belief in the easty Asian. Including many asepcts: educations, politics. socializing, etc. Another one aspects that Confucianism fouces is that family. It emphasizes the importance of unity and harmony of family. But, Confucianism is not all good. There are some drawbacks, such as lack of care of individual feeling, prioritizing the benefits of a group rather more than individual's well being.

    1. What things about the design of Twitter enabled these events to happen?

      I think that the "retweet" function of tweeter enables the event to happen in such as short time period. Retweets can bring the tweets into expose to public really quick since the retweets can be retweeted again. In this case, the celebrities retweeted Justine's tweets, thats why it went viral in such a short amout of time.