I feel like more and more people are realizing how effective this is at stirring up engagement. The concept of rage baiting to try and get someone to lash out at what you are saying has almost become commonplace in any post with loose connection to politics.

I find it interesting that this concept has lived on in the internet era. Memes like this still exist, and while they don't hold the same "examples" of good and bad luck, they maintain a very similar message.

Is there a way to get around this without being a huge invasion of privacy? Something like how we are able to tell sentiments of certain subreddits, but by having the reccomendations service analyze sentiments of your posts regarding that person.

I've been messing around with this a bit on instagram. By hovering over a certain post for it's full duration, you can make most of the following reels the same type of post.

Does this trend change in the context of social media? I feel like the access to anonymity online could be an outlet for someone to drop the mask for a bit.

This seems like an issue that has been going on forever. I am curious to see if it has become less prevailent in recent years as people have become more aware of it. I am also curious what role social media may play in this, as it provides a platform for people to call this sort of stuff out.

I don't understand how this is permitted. I feel like for people's data to be used by a company, they should at least have to recieve the benifit of using whatever service that company is provided.

I find this to be a very disturbing and ethically questionable buisiness model. The fact that these companies are explicitly made to make society less productive is something I find very concerning.

Ok, I've definitely gone down the youtube rabbit hole of watching various things this group has done. It's interesting to know that a group who had an actual impact on the world started as a 4chan group.

This is fairly interesting, and something my discussion partner brought up in week two. I get that in some sense books are considered social media, but I feel like they have slipped away from that definition with new social media platforms becoming more and more prevailent. My biggest question regarding this is whether or not the lack of ability to recieve feedback directly through a boom would disqualify it from a more modern understanding of what constitutes social media.