The act of decolonization is a difficult and tricky one, due to the fact that with how long some cultures have been colonized, it would be difficult to distinguish between what is native culture and what was brought over by the colonizers. The cultures and habits that the colonizers have bought over might also have been integrated into and intertwined with local culture, making it even more difficult to distinguish.

If the government made it so that companies were unable to sell their users data to a external buyer, the companies might pivot to a more ad based business model similar to a lot of model games and apps currently, where the website gets a bit of money to have a user click on a specific app. Or they might attempt to sell something to the user, and in order to maximize sales, make the free version of the app nearly unusable without any purchases similar to Spotify.

The reasoning why we might be laughing at the children is due to seeing ourself as being more intelligence, and as such the seemingly lower intelligence behavior of the children seems humorous due to its apparent stupidity. This parallels why people laugh of footage of someone getting hurt in a silly or seemingly avoidable way. By laughing, it expresses a sense of superiority over the person in the footage, however this does not encapsulate the whole story behind the incidents. The introduction of the internet and subsequently short form content and videos makes this even more prevalent, with important context being cut out in a way that makes the original video humorous.

Of course the reasoning the person is being shamed is important, but I argue the length that the person faces the shape, and the degree of shape that is bought onto the person is just as important. A period of shame may allow the person to realize the consequence of their actions the effect is has on other people, but prolonged shape might result in self depreciation and self hate, resulting in lowered self worth. Is this condition of lowered self worth, this might result in lashing out or other actions that might result in more harm.

The often times free nature of crowd sourcing can be suspectable to abuse, commonly seen in voting systems. This results in voting systems being a target of trolling by large communities, such as 4chan abusing events that allows the wider community to vote for certain things, such as naming of a location or promotional event at a location. The anonymous and purposefully assessable design of crowd sourcing makes it difficult for companies and organizations to filter bad actors.

First the definition of good/bad crowd sourcing need to be clearly defined. There are many different types of 'good' crowd sourcing, one objective metric of good would be honest and correct factual information. A method some websites use is using a user voting system, where good and factual information is 'upvoted' and promoted more then information that is deemed less objective then others. Such websites include Wikipedia, and twitter community notes.

The reasoning for the poor treatment of the moderators can be due to the fact that moderation and the content that is features that might go against the social medias TOS might not actually hurt the companies bottom line that much, and they are only hired for PR reasons, to give off the impression that safety of users is important to the company. Another example is roblox, where child predators, scammers, and bad actors are quite common, and are all technically supposed to be banned by Roblox. But as roblox is such a large company, a few users experiencing these will not actually hurt Roblox's profits. Instead, the problems are only fixed is they get wide spread coverage by new soruces.

Often times, stuff said on the internet can heavily certain individual and cause them to act out in ways that maybe harmful. Such instances are common on websites with little to no moderations such as 4chan. On there, just for laughs, users might try to encourage certain self distructive actions, or bully/black mailing them to do something against their will. Such actions that are difficult for the victum or a third party to stop the harmful effects should be moderated by the website to prevent real word damages.

Copy pastas might have been one of the very first versions of internet memes, with email chain mails being how they would have been send around, with them slowly evolving with each using, and eventually leaving the original creators control. Copy pastas can also categorize memes that are just repetitions of a word or phrase that is funny to people, with the repeative usage of the word being the punch line.

While the connotations of doom are quite negative, the content we consume while doom scrolling might actually be cheerful in native. As such, the definition of doom scrolling may not necessarily denote the content that is consumed, but instead the state or potential future of someone that doom scrolls. This has parallels to the title 'doomer' that used to used online to describe people who are hopeless about their current life circumstances and have instead decided to not do anything about it.

The idea of a incel has become more and more wide spread with the invention of the internet, giving people who believe such things a echo chamber to reinforce their ideas. It is possible then, for incels to have existed before the invention of the internet. Whiles the barriers to incel-dum are low, incel ideology and the community might have been more difficult to come by, as the ideas they they help were more widely looked down against. This might have made it difficult for incels to openly express their ideas when attempting to find similar people without facing ridicule.

By the definition that a meme is a gene like organize that replicates and adapts, to a degree it can be argued that languages, or words in a language are also a form of memes. Certain words can adapt and change depending on circus stances in order to best suit the time's culture. This is also the case with words that become memes, as seen through the usually uninteresting number "67", which has since become a viral meme. Due to its meme status, this also changes how people perceive existing instances of the number "67".

It is due to this phenomena of replication and reposting that created the common idea that anything on the interest will forever stay on the interest, and be impossible for any party to completely scrub of the interest. This is also the case for memes, and specifically the people who are features in the memes. Often times, due to different factors, the people in a given meme might face back clash from other users on the interest, resulting in the person being harassed and bullies, such was the case with the star wars kid back in the late 2000s. This also is the catalyst for interest cringe culture and the reasoning for the effectiveness of mutual surveillance by other users.

Echo chambers are often the cause for the creation and execution of extremist ideologies and actions. That said, the ethnicity of moderating such groups could be problematic, as for some ethical frame works, this could violate a common pillar, that of freedom of speech. However, in some other frame works, the need to stop any potential dangers caused by these echo chambers might out weight the need to maintain freedom of speech. However, this then brings into question the extent of control and moderation a governing body should have on any group.

I often use social medias such as intergram to recommend me ad of different clothing brands that I might be interested in, instead of seeking it out myself. I found that by doing my own research for clothing, it has been difficult to find brands that I actually like. However, with the amount of ads along with the algorithm understanding my interests, they often do show me brands and items that I quite like, and would purchase.

Ableism could be a difficult problem to tackle, especially on the internet. As often times, intentional ableism can be seen as just ignorance or stupidity. Some people can justify the problem with the explanation that the problem was simple not realized or known, instead or attributing it directly to malice.

With the flexibility and simplicity of the internet, this allows for most people with physical disabilities to complete practically all tasks they they will need to on the internet. With the introduction and further development of neuro link implants, this can allow even the paralyzed to utilize the internet. On the other hand, with the amount of information on the internet, people with mental illnesses might find it more difficult to utilize the internet and all the information on it to its full extent.

While privacy laws exist, like any other rules, they need to be reinforces. If not, there is no reason for people or entities to obey and follow them. As such, entities without solid governing such as some branches of the government could have the ability to do as they wish. If certain bad actors gained control over the ability to monitor people through the web, they would be able to monitor and find large amounts of information about its population and target certain demographics.

I wonder if there is any way a company is able to store secure information in a way such that even despite a breach in security, the information is still inaccessible to hackers. Would it be possible for the information to be stored instead on the users platform, and whenever the server needs to access it, it will instead request from the users computer? While this is less convenient and I assume it would require more processing time, it would be more secure as all information is not centralized.

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.