I feel like this is the most important part of all of social media. It’s hard to stay on top of all the changes and new apps but it’s so important to be self aware because there is little chance that these big tech companies are going to stop creating problematic sites.

This is so hard because tech is evolving so quickly and it’s so hard to get left behind fast. But there is so many consequences to creating tech and people really need to think about what they are creating. I also think people dont actually care about what the consequences are so even if they do think about what will happen when they create new tech they usually don’t actually care about the repercussions.

I’ve watched La La Land a million times and never thought of it this way. It’s so easy to look over my privilege and not even notice when subtly racist things are happening.

It’s insane how much money mark Zuckerberg has. The fact that he only owns 16.8% of meta and yet is still one of the richest men in the world is so crazy. His story is so interesting and really gives a glimpse into the behind the scenes of social media.

This is kinda crazy. I feel like there aren’t really very many cases of cancel culture that even come close to Nazi Germany. While I do think there are times where people should be permanently removed from social media I think it’s a little crazy to compare anything on the internet to Nazi Germany.

I feel like I never really hear of normal people being cancelled but I do see them facing unnecessary criticism. TikTok has really normalized being rude and malicious on the internet and it’s also really easy to go viral on TikTok. Because of this I see a lot of hate on regular people for simple things that they don’t need the criticism on. That’s where I see problems with online criticism.

This makes me laugh because while I agree with this statement the last people who are going to be affected by harassment are billionaires. Overall though i do think there are times where online harassment are justified but I dont think harassment ever does what it is supposed to do.

This is crazy that people can be so obsessed with a social media situation that they create bots to attack somebody. I think this really shows a lot about the relationship people have with the internet and parasocial relationships. People get so invested in the internet to an unhealthy point and this is a good example.

This is interesting to me because I’ve never thought of it as doxing. This happens all over twitter and TikTok and I’ve always thought of it as sweet and a cool way to get information back to the people it belonged too. I understand though how this can be controversial.

It’s interesting to see how different people react to cloud sourcing particularly Wikipedia. All throughout elementary and middle school I was told to not use/ trust Wikipedia. The older i got into school the less teachers cared about using Wikipedia. I personally think that crowdsourcing websites like Wikipedia are important but it is interesting to see how different people care about crowdsourcing.

This is tricky, as a moderator your job is to look through possibly disturbing and upsetting content and you know that as you go into the job. Obviously though there is no need to be taking advantage of poor people and these companies that use content moderation have enough money to fairly pay and take care of moderators.

While I do see why social media sites block some potentially offensive material I also think that sometimes it beneficial for them not to do this. Take twitter for example, for years it has regulated close to nothing. You can see any array of possibly offensive material and that is part of the draw to the site. People like that they don’t have to censor their content.

Honestly I feel like I dont even notice when social media is negatively impacting my mental health. There is so much content out there that has subtle jabs to other people that its hard to notice that something in affecting your body image, self esteem, or mental health overall. I do think that when I really think about it I do find that social media makes me more self conscious

There are large pro anorexia communities on the internet that are easy to find and use. These forums can be super detrimental to peoples mental health and yet people still choose to join and interact with them. This is another example of negative communities online.

This is so funny that chain mail has been going on for so long and this is a super cool piece of history. Texts exactly like that circulated around my middle school friend group and on short form video platforms there are videos that make you interact with the post for something to happen to you.

It’s funny to think of memes is this scientific way but it is true that memes are pieces of culture. It’s a common joke on the internet that memes will be in history textbooks. While this is a joke it’s not entirely false memes capture a certain part of history that evolve and change overtime.

Honestly l feel like the only responsibility they have is to allow people to turn it off or even just let people know that a recommendation algorithm is in place. People can hate on recommendation algorithms all they want but honestly they do improve social media.

Sometimes I will see a post that I’m only mildly interested in and like it or watch all of it and then for the next couple days I see a million related videos. This always annoys me because they aren’t videos I actually like or really care about and they become all i see.

I guess this makes sense but honestly I don’t totally buy it. I really truly believe that our phones are listening to us. Beyond this i feel like our recommendations algorithms take information from other apps.

It’s crazy that disabled people are left out of almost all career choices. Even in situation like design where their perspective is so important and necessary to creating a useful online space they are excluded.

This is really interesting to me and I wonder why they don’t use alt text. The wording “doesn’t allow” makes it sound like there is cons to using alt text and I don’t really understand what those would be. I wonder if they really don’t allow alt text or if that’s the wording in the text book and they actually just dont have alt text.

There can be a lot of backlash when companies aren’t careful with protecting privacy. By sharing personal information companies can easily lose their fans and user base.

This is something that is really scary to me. I feel like so many people including myself don’t know what’s really happening when it comes to social media. I know so many people who have had their information shared solely because they didn’t know enough about media literacy and how to protect themselves on the internet.

This is another thing that really scares me so I turned my ad personalization off. When I go on websites I only allow the cookies that are needed. I’ve seen how ad personalization has affected my social media and its something that really influences the amount of time I spend online so when I can block websites from stealing info i dont like I try to do it!

This is something that really scares me. I feel like my generation gets swayed very easily and it’s hard not to jump on a bandwagon or listen to evidence from social media. I often forget how easily information and data can get skewed and still be “scientific”.

I agree with Crit Hulk that it shouldn’t have to be the victims responsibility to keep the trolls in place but unfortunately I think that is the best response. Trolls are looking for attention and followers. By not interacting with them it’s more likely their actions will stop.

I feel like the main reason that I see trolling used these days is to gain an audience. There seems to be a never ending amount of influences who are known for trolling and base their whole Internet personality on trolling. They always gain a lot of subscribers, followers, and views.

Recently there was a lot of drama surrounding the music artist Doja Cat because she was insisting that she did not love her fans. She said that she did not know her fans and therefore did not love them. Fans were really upset because without their support, Doja Cat wouldn’t be where she is today. I think it’s interesting to see how people and celebrities react to parasocial relationships and how much the said relationship matters to fans.

I honestly don’t think it matters. I feel like it can readily be assumed that famous people don’t write their own tweets. I generally assume that for most celebrities and politicans, there is somebody else producing at least some of their online content.

I love the idea of social media dating back all years before the internet, it’s easy to forget that social media is a way larger concept that what we currently think of social media as. I think that it would be really beneficial to teach about social media and its past and the current day affects more widely.

I forget how many small differences like this play into our addiction. It’s crazy how the action of pushing one button to show more content actually decreases the want to look at more content. It makes me wonder what other small changes could be made to social media to drastically increase or decrease our addiction

While I was unfamiliar with the term ‘design justice’, it’s an idea that I’m familiar with. I watch a lot of content that talks about ableism within design and how so much design is nearly impossible for disabled people to use. This is really the only context I’ve seen this idea talked about on the internet so it’s interesting to see what other marganilized groups are burdened by design. E

This reminds me of the statement we were talking about last week, “social media isn’t real.” With this simplifying we can only see some of what is real and not the whole picture which I think plays into the conception that social media isn’t real because content can be “real” for some people and fake for other people.

This is crazy, when this video originally came out I saw it and was shocked at how far AI had come. To learn that all along there was a whole other trick being played is crazy. It’s scary to see how bots and AI progress and how easy it is for the average person to be tricked by technology.

This is a funny story that digs into the problems that social media and bots create. For one social media creates a “safe” place for people to share unethical and racist ideas without people knowing who it is. Another issues is that bots are not fool proof and can be easily manipulated by outside sources.

I find it interesting that the golden rule is included in the ethic frameworks. I feel like it is so simple and well known that it would be overlooked. But because it is the basis for lots of ethical ideas and frameworks I do understand the importance of adding it.

I disagree that this statement is trying to dismiss harm that occurred on social media. I believe that this statement is used to devalue time spent on social media and I’ve never once heard it try to dismiss harm that is caused by social media. I personally believe that most people are aware of the harms.