This scenario happened recently with Instagram's new threads feature. It tried to become the next Twitter by copying most of Twitter's feature. It released at a good time but didn't do a good job of bringing and maintaining it's userbase.

This happens way too often. Many times a show or series is ruined by a bad sequel or cheap adaptation. It's really easy to spot out cheap cash grab movies that only reel you in with name value rather than movie quality.

While there isn't a retract button on Twitter, Twitter now has a community notes function. The community notes function similar to a retract option. It allows users or other to make clarifications about a post. It does a good job of preventing the spread of misinformation.

It's rare to see apologies to things like this on Twitter. It's even more rare to get a genuine and fleshed out apology like this one. Most people just delete their original tweet and move on, but the poster made the effort to go and read in a bar.

It's really difficult to enforce online harassment through the legal system. Harassment typically involves a lot of people. Individually tracking down and reprimanding all of them is extremely difficult especially if they're located in another country.

Due to the pattern requirement, it can be really difficult to enforce harassment. A lot of the time, the pattern gets covered up with other things, especially in the workplace.

This example reminds me of the site Genius, which allows for people to crowdsource music lyrics. People will try and figuring out difficult song lyrics and let other people correct and fill in missing lyrics.

I think it's very hard for social media platforms to encourage good crowdsourcing while also discouraging bad crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing on the internet will always be hit or miss due to the witch hunt nature of the internet.

Automated mods have become a great tool for small creators to easily moderate their own comments. The only issue with automated moderators is the lack of flexibility. Some things will get accidently flagged and somethings will end up bypassing the filter.

While these tools are nice to have, If you have a larger audience it's not feasible to have to moderate your comments. It takes so much time to filter through comments, and people can easily bypass these moderation tools

My way of enjoying social media is only using it to connect with people I know and am friends with. It's not worth it to branch out too far from my circle and content.

Doom scrolling has gotten worse recently with algorithms becoming more refined. Things like Facebook and Tiktok are really good at constantly recommending similar posts leading to constant scrolling.

As cool as being famous can be, they're lots of downsides. Everything you do garners more attention and you become at risk for doxing or accidently exposing yourself.

The majority of memes are created by a small group of people reposting a slightly edited image. For example the photo of the guy running from a floating man. There's now an insane amount of posts using that template with slightly different words.

I remember when Youtubers were forced to make their videos a certain length in order to be picked up by the algorithm and make ads. Every Youtube video on my feed would be just a couple seconds over 10 minutes and have dead space towards the end to meet the time requirements.

I'm still amazed at how well the connections algorithm works. My Instagram's suggested feed does a good job of showing me people I know to follow, especially when we only have a few connections with each other.

It's hard to cover all the possible cases with disabilities because the population with disabilities is just so small. Designers can really only make changes once someone with a specific disability can't use something. Over time, it'll get better, buildings are more wheel chair accessible. Online media has been better for people hard of hearing.

It's difficult to make things accessible for people with disabilities, especially if the disability isn't common. Accessibility is usually an afterthought because it isn't something the designer focuses on. It doesn't affect the majority of users.

I feel that social media sites direct messages should be private from other users but shouldn't be private to the companies. Many illegal things happen through private messaging, and we shouldn't expect our dms to be fully private.

I've started enabling 2fa on all my accounts but 2fa can be buggy and annoying to use. Some use email, some use texts and others require an app. It gets annoying trying to switch between and find the 2fa code.

For my final project in info201, I had to find a dataset to create a website around. So many datasets had incomplete or unrepresented data. It was hard to choose one to use, especially when working with R, and dealing with null values.

I had personal advertisements off but it's still crazy to see what data points google uses to show you ads. It keeps track of relationship status, work status and even household income.

This happens a lot online now. Many people new to certain hobbies won't understand specific terms, leading to many falling for these troll/satire videos. This is especially prevalent in smaller communities where everyone is more active.

I love reading these types of reviews. Especially on items that are barely functional or obviously a scam. The troll reviews are really fun to read and share. The only problem with these reviews is that it often inflates the ratings of these items.

I'm surprised that they mailed both of them back and actually responded to their messages. It's really in line with the Mr. Rodgers brand but that means that someone read through their messages and wrote a personal response.

Code switching is almost mandatory in public. You can't talk and act the same way around everyone. The way you act to customers and coworkers is going to be different from your friends and family.

Some other examples of friction in web design is TikTok's "you've been watching too long". Other social medias and games have been implementing this as well.

It's interesting how we are back in the age of rumors and theories. Back then, people didn't have the tools to easily fact check. In modern times, people don't have the attention span to fact check what they see on the internet. Those short, half truth rumors spread like wildfire now.

Statistics is always something that can be used to mislead or trick readers. In this example, it mentions only 5% of users being bots, but doesn't mention what counts as a user. There could be many inactive accounts lowering the overall number of bots, but not lowering the percentage of bots that users see.

I've always felt weird seeing these kinds of posts on my feed. It feels weird morally to post about something like helping the less fortunate. The posts make the good deed feel disingenuous.

Allowing bots on websites allows for more "users" and data traffic. Having more data traffic allows for advertiser to make more money. Users could use bots for many reasons but the main reason is to try and grow an account.

I commonly see bots used for online shopping. Lots of scalpers use bots as a way to get concert tickets or new clothes in order to resell for a profit.

Taoism focuses less on the individual and more on the world. Individually, we cannot make much of a difference, so it's better to let the universe control.

I feel that most of the responsibility should lie in the person who ran the code. They had the final say on what the bot would do rather than the programmer who just created the bot.