The author of this passage discusses how social media platforms such as facebook use shadow profiles to gain data on users of the app and even non-users. They then use the data to run the statistic probability of things such as the likelihood of someone being gay. The results show that gay men that don't make their sexual orientation public have a high chance of being exposed based off this information. I find that really scary because if they can find someone's sexual orientation based off an algorithm and statistics; what else could they find out?

Aside from social media apps using data on you to create an algorithm that is more customized to you, people consistently using the data from accounts that is public to make judgement on people. An example of this would be checking who someone follows to see that they follow a lot of famous soccer players which would already let you know one of their interests. This isn't very harmful but could be depending on someones intentions when looking into your information.

The example used in this article was of a comedian posing as the FBI's official page on twitter and making an insensitive joke about the asassination of MLK. Twitter removed the post quickly and banned the comedians account because although this is deemed as trolling, it is very harmful to the image of a very important organization that has a reputation to uphold.

By seeing the definition that the text gives the word trolling, I realized that rage bait could be a category of trolling or they might be the same thing. On several platforms, trolling has become abundant since it has kind of became part of many people's sense of humor. However, trolling posts can be insensitive and give young people the wrong impression of what is okay to say on social media.

Wikipedia expands the meaning of code switching that I am used to. I also thought it was changing the way you talk based on your environment which is included as part of its description but apparently switching languages when talking is also considered code switching. I found this interesting since I've never heard code switching being described in that context.

I like how this part of the reading brings awareness to the negative reputation that code switching has but also shows how it can be very useful. I think it's similar to when people say there is a place and a time to do something, usually in the context that you shouldn't be misbehaving in important setting. I have personally code switched in different scenarios such as my friends and my professor will see very different versions of me since I talk more formally to a professor than I would with my friends.

In part of the movie clip, the founders of facebook acknowledge that the biggest contribution that the other guy made was to drop the "the" from "the facebook" . They took the advise and changed it which would be a part of their social media design along with the idea to hold off from adding ads to the app since it might lower the number of people interested at the beginning. All of this advise comes down to how they move forward with how they would run their app. It makes me wonder if the guy that was giving advise would have grounds in court to some rights over the design since they did take inspiration from the conversation.

I wasn't aware that this action had a term coined after it but now that I can put a name to it, I realize that all social media apps use friction. An example of this would be instagram because everytime that I want to find all the posts I've ever liked, I have to go into the settings and push on several categories to find it again since its not easily assessable . Although it is a hassle, it makes sense for it to be hard to find since you don't want information like that to be public.

The point that Elon Musk made to back up his concerns with buying twitter was the amount of bots on the platform which reminds me of chapter 3 that we went over on monday. He originally was buying the platform with the assumption that the majority of users are humans so I can understand why he took a step back when finding out about how many bots there are, especially when its billions of dollars on the line.

It's interesting to learn about this subcategory of data since I'm exposed to it on the daily on things such as instagram but I didn't know that it was named this. I think another example of this for instagram specifically would be the analytics that you can see when you post.

Using this as an example reminds me of how the sites that colleges use for assignments such as canvas could also be deemed as a form of social media. Not only do much classes have discussion posts were students can share ideas, but they can also email eachother through the website. This ideology opened my mind to how many things could be considered social media.

The part of the text that discusses "their creator" makes me wonder if that would give grounds for someone to be mistreated if they were to believe they have a different creator than someone else. Usually when we are talking about "our creator" it deal with our beliefs including religion. This makes me wonder how different religions are also tied to the European ethics framework.

This source describes what rate limits in coding are. They were described as an amount of time that the program waits until it makes a post. It can work as a form of scheduling posts for creators. It thought it was interesting since I had never heard of rate limits even though I have some experience coding.

This part of the text including examples of the coding used reminded me of a statistics class at UW where I would always have to set variables in my coding. It's cool to see how coding can apply to such a wide spectrum of subjects beyond statistics.