Anonymous forum boards such as 4chan and so many others both clearly display the benefits but also the drawbacks of the internet. Using the internet, a whole new personality can be created that is separated from your own self, allowing for freedom of expression about not only the self but also other issues. However, this also means that for most people, the interest is detached from real life and devoid of consequence, meaning when trolls pray on vulnerable members of the net might go to far, and end up causing real physical damage for not only the victim but their relationships. There has been multiple instances of users on 4chan causing physical harm either through physical real work actions by the 4chan-ers or by the victim themselves. 4chan has also continuously mocked dead victums as a sort of inside joke.

While the act of trolling and its many other forms have always existed throughout social interaction and media, the invention and wide spread adaptation of the internet has made trolling more readily available and easily accessible. Having access to different social platforms, this gives potential trollers easy access to different victim to harassed. The mostly anonymous nature of the internet also voids the bad actors of consequence, often resulting in the trolling becoming more and more extrema. Such examples including users on platforms like 4chan moving discussions and topics that originated on the forum and realizing them in real life.

With modern improvements in AI and other text based programs. It will presumably be increasingly difficult to distinguish between what content is created authentically by a human and what is artificial. With increase usage of AI, the desire for authentic creations full by humans might increase.

A parasocial relationship while undesirable in most cases might in fact be the end goal of some figures like politicians or cult leaders. This dynamic can be manipulated for personal gain by the leader, in order to fulfill their own desires. This can vary from influencing or straight up telling their followers what to do.

With web 1.0 mainly being content created by independent companies, 2.0 being content created by individual people, and web 3.0 being the integration of AI which we are rapidly approaching that possibility, it makes me wonder about the possibilities of web 4.0. I assume it would be content created by a community, with individual ideas seamlessly integrated into a cohesive media, able to be easily understood.

As the work media entails, and form of interaction with the physical world can count as a form of media. And as such, any interaction with the physical world can also count as a form of social media. Mediums can also become social through the exposure to other people, but this also brings up the question of is a media only social if shared or perceived by some body else.

Use usage of 0 in mathematics, specifically the "0th derivative" of a function is interesting, as it represents the unaltered state of the function, as no change has been done to it yet. This say of thinking can also be uses on other elements that change quite often, with the number not representing the order of change, but the degree of change.

A lot of large accounts on social media are ran by bots, or either human bots, as they have a systematic way of reposting something after a period of time. Often times, popular tweets are retweeted as new in order to farm likes and interactions. With the blue check Elon added allowed revenue to be created through tweets, further incentivizing such practices.

With the knowledge that a lot of the discord over twitter was actually due to bots and political reasons, I wonder if the consensus around the movie would have been significantly more positive without the negative bots farm. As the period of time after the movie was released, I do remember the general impression of the movie was quite negative. Could have these negative twitter bots swayed the opinions of other real human, thus creating a repeating cycle? or were negative comments just more apparent as they generate more conversation and clicks?

There is also the in between scenario of the riot dog. In rare occasions, stray dogs might show up in during a period of civil unrest and join the side of the protesters. While the dog is unable to complete grasp the scope of the situation nor understand the reasoning behind the riot, the dog is still actively being aggressive towards the riot police and being hostile.

The concept of a golden rule is inherently flawed and contradictory. The method of using ones own selfish desire to be treated in a way is in turn a selfish act, with the goal of gaining something from said interaction. The golden rule also works in only social situations, which gets thrown out the window when a individual is in a situation without judgement or consequence,, as seen by the shopping cart dilemma.

With the wide spread access of phones and cameras, this inadvertently creates mass surveillance through the masses themselves. Any action someone does can now be easily recorded and uploaded to thousands of uses and institutions, which the recorded can then face both social and institutional repercussions. In my opinion this is largely the catalyst of modern "cringe culture", where actions seen as "cringy" by the masses posted online for people to see and judge. The ethics of this is questionable, while said cringy action is a medium meant to communicate with others, but posting the content on social media unnecessary exposed the actions to unwarned attention and unintended audience that might not understand the actions in the first place.