Since I've taken several chemistry classes, the atomic bomb was brought up here and there but I didn't know that it was a uranium atom that was being split up. It was cool to learn that this process was called the manhattan project too because when it is mentioned, most people just known it as the US making an atomic bomb but most don't know that the nazi's were working on it as well.

I can definitely say that this class has taught me how to better manage using social media. I've also learned how to use different ideologies to judge certain uses of apps. I know that I need to stop trolling people because it can be perceived in a harmful manner and its comedic relief isn't enough to outweigh the bad it does.

It's sad to learn that people who want to learn how to program have to learn english since the majority of programming is in english. It is just another way of making minorities stay in a box and adds a layer of struggle in gaining an education in programming. Its truly unfortunate and unfair, I understand that some common words stay in english in order to keep some things consistent but it gets to a point.

Aside from the usefulness of a network the more people use it, when there are more users, the data collected is also more useful. Collecting more data makes their analysis of their users more accurate which could lead to them profiting more if they can advertise to the new users correctly.

This article talks about how publish shaming is an action with the purpose of upholding social norms. It reminds me of the popular phrase used on tiktok, "lets bring shame back". This phrase is used in the context of people posting inappropriate content to their public accounts and expecting no lash back even though there are children on the app. The point of bringing shame back is to stop these sort of behaviors.

The most often consequence that I see on social media of people being canceled is that they lose their job. However, their job is being an influencer the majority of the time so people basically boycott their content until they no longer have a platform and can't make money off their videos anymore. I find that cancel culture lacks longevity though since almost everyone that gets canceled is able to come back from it with some time.

This wikipedia article talks about how the KKK targeted various groups that aren't white since they believe that being white makes them superior. There were different eras of the KKK but I found it interesting to learn that the first clan was made at the rise of the civil war.

I feel like both of these forms of crowd harassment are used commonly online especially with cancel culture. A whole community gets together to try to bully someone offline if they considered their actions punishable. A recent example of this is whats happening to James charles on tiktok but in my opinion it is acceptable in this case since he supported an abuser and he is a pedophile himself.

It crazy to see how technology has taken over the work force and people now have ot behave differently with people that don't necessarily work in office or are a robot.

I like the comparison the author made to make it easier to understand that is it common for a small group to do the majority of the work especially if they specialize in it. Since I'm premed I compare it to specializing during residency.

I found it interesting that this article mentions that even if an elected official were to post something that goes against their guidelines, that it would likely be the exception and wouldn't be deleted. I can understand that it's important for the public to see the real them but it's also not fair to favoritize someone based off their social status/ popularity.

Its crazy to think of how involved the government is with controlling what can be viewed on social media platforms but they really do control it directly with the laws that they pass. This reminds me of the law to ban tiktok being made a priority over other important matters because the government is aware of how much information is really released on the platform.

This wikipedia article focuses on how social media was the reason for certain incidents getting more attention. The one discussed specifically was about a white women making a police report on a black man by falsely accusing him of harassing her. Once the footage went viral, she got fired and got a misdemeanor. It's sad to think about how things could have turned out if his side of the incident wasn't caught on camera.

I wasn't aware that there was a term for these actions so that was interesting to learn about. Also, a lot of people on social media really care about how they are perceived so they may even repost things that they don't relate to but they want people to think that they do. I consider this specific example to be an indicator that someone lacks individuality.

It was interesting to read this articles view on tiktoks secret sauce. I figured there was something special about its algorithm since so many people emphasize how good it is however, the article changed my mind by making the valid point that at conferences, these big app owners and engineers share their breakthroughs so there isn't really anything too special about what each one has. However, the fact that content is the main focus on the app instead of things like subscriptions, it does better than apps like youtube especially for content creators.

I am a user of the tiktok app so I'm aware of how its content recommendations work and although its fair to say that the design of the app makes it easy to skip mad recommendations, I feel like it doesn't give tiktok's algorithm enough credit. Earlier this year there was a law being passed to ban tiktok in America and all its users united to rave about how no other app has an algorithm this good so I do feel like that should be taken into account. Also, in my personal experience, the app has always been extremely accurate with its content recommendations to the points where I feel like its listening to my conversations.

It interesting to read about the causes of color blindness and how it affects people's day to day life. It'a often made out to be a small disability and overlooked when it truly does affect people's way of living. I wonder if there are any apps that are made with a certain color palette as an accommodation to color blind people.

I like how something that just seems so small like the light of your phone changing based on the brightness of your environment is so helpful and intentional. I wish we could bring more attention to these ability based designs so that as a society we could appreciate it more.

It interesting to read how certain government agencies are exempt from laws that try to protect citizen privacy, specifically their direct messages, etc. If they are deemed to use the information in ways that they do more good than harm, than its okay but I wonder how they determine that. If it is based on personal opinion I'm sure that it wouldn't be unanimous in any room.

I like how this part of the reading shows the positive perspective of a company having our personal messages. We normally view it as an invasion of privacy but the author made a valid point about it serving to be useful in situations where making you lost proof of certain messages that could bring you harm. However, I think that companies should be more transparent about how much they can assess our "private messages" to avoid law suits.

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.