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  2. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Steak-umm [@steak_umm]. Why are so many young people flocking to brands on social media for love, guidance, and attention? I'll tell you why. they're isolated from real communities, working service jobs they hate while barely making ends meat, and are living w/ unchecked personal/mental health problems. September 2018. URL: https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1045038141978169344 (visited on 2023-11-24).

      I partially agree with this tweet's contents regarding mental health and relationships towards jobs. I also disagree with how large of a generalization this is of a huge group of people.

    1. In what ways are you in parasocial relationships?

      I personally wouldn't say that I am in any parasocial relationships with media figures or people in my life currently. I was however in a lot of parasocial relationships as a child with characters like SpongeBob, Finn from adventure time, and various other shows and cartoons.

    1. Why do you think social media platforms allow bots to operate?

      I think that some social media platforms allow certain bots to operate for example a robot that produces positive reaffirmations in an Orc like dialect. On the contrary a spam bot will most likely be banned from a platform because it offers no creativity and doesn't get a lot of likes therefor not offering profit for the social media platform.

  3. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Sarah Jeong. How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist. Vice, March 2016. URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/mg7g3y/how-to-make-a-not-racist-bot (visited on 2023-12-02).

      Sarah Jeong speaks about her interviews with multiple different people speaking about how difficult it is to make an ethical ai bot. Then Jeong speaks about how you can make an ethical bot with monitoring and censorship which I think should be mandatory for all platform/ bot creators.

    1. Data collection and storage can go wrong in other ways as well, with incorrect or erroneous options. Here are some screenshots from a thread of people collecting strange gender selection forms:

      I think this example of the gender selection form not only shows how much they care about their users but also how much time they have put into their website. Overall, it is very bad for the company and encourages users to take their time elsewhere.

  4. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Joshua Habgood-Coote. Search Engines, White Ignorance, and the Social Epistemology of Technology. Philosophy, forthcoming. URL: https://philpapers.org/rec/HABSEW (visited on 2024-04-01).

      The source by Joshua Habgood-Cootedescribes how a lot of the racial and sexual injustice produced by search engines is a product of white ignorance. He provides the idea that search engines should be used as information classification systems.

    1. Sometimes designers add friction to sites intentionally. For example, ads in mobile games make the “x” you need to press incredibly small and hard to press to make it harder to leave their ad:

      I believe that this is an incredibly annoying and aggressive feature that has been added to ads. The marketing industry would be a lot better without it and I feel as though it makes users more frustrated than interested in purchasing whatever the ad is selling.

  5. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Tom Knowles. I’m so sorry, says inventor of endless online scrolling. The Times, April 2019. URL: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-m-so-sorry-says-inventor-of-endless-online-scrolling-9lrv59mdk (visited on 2023-11-24).

      The Tom Knowles source describes how he helped create the online feature known as the "infinite scroll" and how he heavily regrets creating it based on the effect it has had on society. The "infinite scroll" has increased depression rates in teens and has created even more issues beyond what he is describing i.e. doomscrolling.

  6. Sep 2025
    1. Being and becoming an exemplary person (e.g., benevolent; sincere; honoring and sacrificing to ancestors; respectful to parents, elders and authorities, taking care of children and the young; generous to family and others).

      What is the "most" commonly used form of ethics? Is there a way to find this information out? Do all people use a large variety of ethics?

    2. There is no right or wrong. Nothing matters.

      I think the "Nothing matters" mentality of Nihilism is very redundant. Also, to what extent does the "nothing" go to? Do Nihilists value their lives or at least the aspects of their lives to the extent of creating an ethical system?