I was interested in this source because i’m very familiar with this song, “Friday” by Rebecca Black, but not how it became a meme, which is what this source covers. This source covers how the video spread across all of social media and grew to new jokes, remix’s, and even parodies. Through all this Rebecca was only 13, which i found extremely surprising, especially with all the hate and bullying that she got during this time.

I think it’s important to give credit to people sharing important ideas or art in their content but it’s more complicated when it comes to posts like memes. Although it is one person original idea it’s not common to give credit to the creator of a meme. It’s unspoken but known that memes will blow up and take a life of their own, creators are usually aware of this fact and even if someone wanted to give credit it’s difficult to find the original creators of them in most cases.

I chose this source from its title because I was interested in what ways people defend that the earth is flat, other than what I’ve already heard. It’s expands more on people beliefs and the information that they choose to trust and how the influences their understanding of the world. I thought it was a good example of why it’s so important to find reliable sources and evidence before believing something, and this has only become more the in modern time with the use of ai.

I’m not sure this would technically be considered social media since it’s a app for shopping, but I’ve noticed how Amazon is always recommending stuff to me based off my previous purchases or things I’ve looked up. The starting page will either have more variants of things I have searched for or it have stuff that would pair well with my previous purchases. Amazon also automatically bundled item with something I am looking to purchase. I would say this is more of a good experience because it doesn’t feel like stalking of any sort it’s simply using my purchase and search history, and a lot of the time the same information from other users buying the same things, to find more items related to my interests.

This sources explained how twitters image cropping algorithm worked and would sometimes only show certain parts of an image while excluding the rest. I thought it was interesting how this algorithm could favor certain faces over others unintentionally. This stood out because it shows how even something as small and seemingly not important as cropping a picture can introduce a bias. Ultimately the algorithm could affect what people are seeing online because they wouldn’t think to check or consider if what they’re viewing is something cropped leading them to miss out on information.

It’s crazy to see how a design can be so poorly made that being a darker skin would be considered a disability, in the sense that someone with darker skin wasn’t considered when making the design and therefore can’t use it. Generally, I can’t believe how many, unthinkable ways things and environments can be unaccessible.

The Reddit discussion focused on how the anti-work movement challenged the idea that working harder will always make an individual more successful or just a better person in general. I think it’s interesting because as a society we tend to always believe that being bust is a good thing, even when people reach the stats of being stressed or burned out. It makes think more about how I could implement a healthy balance of being busy and relaxed in my own life.

I feel like I’ve always been aware the various parts of the internet, such as google, collects information about me so it doesn’t really bother me. I’m used to things like seeing personalized ads based on my searches or recommended videos based on previous watches. Even then, google might make inaccurate assumptions but that doesn’t bother me much either. Overall, in my life the internet has always collected information about me so I have grown to not give it much attention or be bothered by it.

I chose to read this short passage because I’m familiar with jump scares. As the text said there are commonly jump scares in horror movies or games, which is where I have seen them. I think jump scares are an interesting idea of “trolling” since most people are initially going into a movie or game expecting it but knowing when it will happen.

I think the people who benefit would be the individuals leaving the review, as they would find it amusing when people read their reviews, and the people who recognize the review is joke and enjoy reading it. I don’t think there is any serious harm done but I can see how leaving joke review could confuse some people in telling which reviews or serious or trolling.

After watching this video I see how people are quick to judge and form new opinions on celebrities. Like how both Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway receiving criticism got their award acceptance speeches despite having completely different styles, showing that people will always question authenticity. I could also see the doubt in authenticity in how individuals first loved Jennifer’s cool and relatable personality and later faulted her for it and questioned her.

I think the authenticity of the tweets is questionable, even if Trumps campaign staff is posting in his behalf it’s repressing him to the public. It would be easy for people to assume trump is writing all his own tweets, so I believe it’s important for people to know who is actually writing the messages so that they can better understand his real opinions and not what his campaign staff wants writes fir him.

I think it’s interesting how this article explains that conspiracy theories have been used in politics for much longer than I realized. It also made me think more of our politics today’s, people are still spreading conspiracy theories to make the other side look bad and how easy it is to spread it now with social media. It’s fascinating to see how there has been change overtime but also how similar political tactics can still be.

As I’ve looked through and learned about the different ways social media platforms run I’ve also learned and thought about how it makes them more successful. I think it’s interesting how different social media platforms connect people in different way yet they are all exceedingly successful, many people us various communicating social media platforms because despite them all being similar they add they’re own features to stand out.

I thought it was interesting how this article explains how the meaning of a math problem can easily change if a different context is presented. It shows how important it is to understand a situation and the assumptions behind a question when deciding if an answer is correct.

I found the simplification of data into oversimplified questions that might not have simple answers or one answer to be relatable and mostly unspoken about in my experience. There have been times in my life, and I’m certain for others, when questions are too vague or can have more than one answer, as the text says. This often leads me to choose an answer I’m unsure of, worried it will mess up something such as an application form. I’ve wonder what professionals think can be done about this, but I’ve personally always thought there should be an option to read a brief description of what an acceptable answer would be, taking away some of the stress when filling out forms.

Reading this article was very interesting because it put into perspective how much of an impact a creators morals has over their bots. When bots are set to form their own posts they may pull information from various places and it is up to the bots creator control where it gets its information or to filter what the bot will post, making an effort to make their bot more ethical.

I think users want to be able to make bots so that they can share their thoughts while still having a small separation between themselves and their posts. Above the text says that using bots allows some "disconnect between intentions and actions" which can seem appealing to many individuals, they also have access to coding and knowledge from other people that can allow them to do more with the bot accounts they create.

Locke’s idea is one I’m familiar with from past history classes and I’ve learned how much influence it had. It allowed citizens to believe they could overthrow the government failing to protect their natural rights and later, as shown in the text, Jefferson integrated it into the Declaration of Independence that is still in our government today.

I think Justine’s tweet began to reach more people after someone decided to share it to Valleywag, which had a much bigger following than Justine. From there the post got more exposure and interaction growing into something larger. It continued to spread from there with Artois retweets and trending hashtags such as #hasjustinelandedyet.