Social media designed in different cultures would reflect their unique values and priorities. In cultures that emphasize family, platforms might focus more on multi-generational connections, family storytelling, or shared responsibilities. In collectivist societies, social media could share group achievements, and community well being. In cultures valuing privacy, platforms might limit public sharing and encourage small-group interactions. The design, features, and algorithms would shape not just how people connect but what kinds of interactions are encouraged or discouraged.

Google revealed that its Nest Secure device had a hidden microphone, raising privacy concerns. This is discussed through The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, which argues that tech companies exploit personal data for profit without users' awareness. She warns that this new economic model, which predicts and influences behavior, threatens privacy, democracy, and individual autonomy.

Platforms can have strong policies and enforcements to make sure that harmful content is being monitored and taken down when alerted. Provide tools to the users such as blocking and reporting. Individuals can also try to prevent this by adjusting their privacy settings and saving evidence in case it is needed later.

The FBI–King suicide letter was an anonymous 1964 letter and package sent by the FBI as part of its COINTELPRO operation against Martin Luther King Jr. The package had a letter and surveillance tapes of King, which was an attempt to pressure him into suicide. Some think the letter was to convince him not to accept the Nobel Peace Prize or stepping down from leadership.

A Vancouver staff member, had his life saved by a fan, ,during the Seattle Kraken game. A fan noticed a concerning mole on the staff members neck and alerted him of it. A few days later he went to the doctors and discovered it was skin cancer and got it removed. He found the fan through social media as his story popularized and the Krakens gifted her 10,000 dollars towards her college tuition for her kindness.

platforms should have clear policies to prevent harmful, violent content and misinformation. Algorithms can also popularize harmful content and if it is constantly viewed it is more likely to be seen on ones page due to the amount of views it receives.

Facebook is having trouble managing the hate comments and harmful content and their cosial media platforms continues to grow globally. Due to the many languages they provide on their app, it is hard to find and take action on content of other languages that violate their guidlines. Some countries are threatening to create more strict guidlines while other countries let these harmful behaviors continue without any consequences.

Yes, I was trying to buy a controller off of a site called OfferUp. The individual was trying to scam me by having me pay through a different form on a different site. Once I noticed this behavior the app gave me a warning that I should report the account, which I did and then it got banned.

Allowing users to know why this content is being recommended for them. Allowing various content or perspectives, making sure the user is still obtaining new content and filtering out misinformation. These are beneficial tactics the help platforms in creating a better user experience.

a NYU study shows that heavily comments and interacting with controversial content will more likely promote popularize the posts rather than suppress them them do to the algorithm. This study has started to raise concern about how twitter goes about promoting content and suggest users to not interact with harmful behavior to prevent the spread of these negative tweets.

It's surprising how bias can be allowed in certain designs. A simple soap dispenser should be inclusive, yet there are bigger issues that come with these biases and not making them available to everyone. I understand its hard to make a product for everyone's differences, but they should not be excluding certain groups of individuals.

This article discusses the controversy of ABA therapy for autistic children. This highlights the difference between neurotypical parents who support it and autistic adults who are viewed as harmful. Critics argue that ABA prioritizes behavior adjusting over the mental well-being of these children. ABA could possibly create the idea for autistic children to prioritize discomfort and obedience which can lead to abuse and make them vulnerable.

Social media platforms have many incentives to violate privacy, including for business reasons, which collect personal. Collecting data of users can be for third parties to discover new marketing tactics, develop better AI, or to create better algorithms for user engagement. Media can be careless with data due to the expenses of better protection, some businesses are just starting up so their focus and prioritizing might be more on promoting rather than protection, and protection get more complicated with bigger scale companies. .

Since GDPR started in in 2018, it has been failing to act on complaints of big technology companies. Civil groups have been complaining about the delays, especially in cross-bordering issues which slow enforcement. GDPR has improved their privacy awareness that has led companies to billions of dollars of fines. Some regulators have founds ways to enforce privacy laws better. Critics and complaints suggest clearer processes and stronger resources to hold tech companies accountable.

I feel like I experience this a lot through social media. I try to set a certain amount of time for scrolling and then I try to do something productive. However, I often times go over my time limit because the media platforms continues to give me videos, photos, or information on topics that I am interested in. I understand the media sites are trying to make money however, I believe they should also think about the damages they could have on society by sucking them into their site for long periods of time.

A group of researchers from the University of Washington, studied misinformation of the COVID pandemic through media. They looked at the accurate and false information spread across multiple social media platforms and how much the public trusted the information. They explained how society creates false information due to them trying to make sense of uncertain events and how politics plays a role in the trust or distrust in science.

I have experienced this in online gaming where I or a teammate is not as good as other advanced players, so other teams or players among us decide to only attack the weaker player repeatedly. This often leads me to be frustrated, to get off the game, or to restart with other players. This also happens over the microphone with other players who are intentionally rude to try and provoke me or other players.

the Spaghetti-tree hoax was a three minute April Fools day joke broadcast by BBC panorama. This joke was about a southern Switzerland family that makes spaghetti out of a tree. This prank was possible because pasta was an unfamiliar concept to many Britons. This was a created by a producer based on childhood memories and an audience of about 8 millions people with 44% of them British.

I think that the things I change about myself on social media, are parts of myself that I want to share to the public. They are true to me but I feel that social media tends to only show the good or fun parts of peoples lives which can affect others mental health. People who compare themselves to others online are only seeing the good parts of their lives which can lead to jealousy due to individuals assuming their whole life is always filled with fun exciting events similar to the posts. .

Social media brands are getting noticed for their human-like personas on the internet. There are pros such as building engagement, however it also raises ethical questions about these brands using serious issues, such as depression, to grab their target audience. There is some fear that young adults with mental health issues or isolation are turning to brands to relate to or create connections with. It's often hard to tell if there are real people or just simple marketing tactics to create more sales off of emotional engagement.

the creator of "Infinite Scroll" expresses his regret for the negative impact his social media invention had on society. His platform was created to make the experience of using other social media sites such as Facebook, and twitter easier for users. However, he received back lash for excessive screen time, and electronic addictions especially among teen users. He is now apart of an organization that supports face to face interactions and addresses the harm of digital addiction which can lead to depression.

this article speaks about how Black Twitter came to be. It gives examples such as Reese Weatherspoon tweeting #uknowurblackwhen. It highlights how black creators have created platforms on Twitter that are creative, comical, activists, and communities. The community began on myspace but fell short, restarting on twitter has helped them build a stronger group as social media has become more popular.

Some examples of low friction social media designs are "sharing" or "retweeting" as with one simple click it instant does these actions for you.

High friction examples are having to copy inks in order to share posts to others. Or, needing to create long piece of texts in captions or posts to meet character requirements.

Disallowed could be attempting to share flagged information or violating community guidelines of the social media platform. it also could be sharing private posts without permission of user or necessary following rules.

I think that the spread of misinformation through influencers posting personal beliefs or bias on their account. Followers often believe influencers for what they say based on the emotional or sensational content they post without fact checking. This leads to the spread of misinformation that is often overlooked.

I think one thing that is overlooked is the spread of misinformation through emotional and sensational content. Influencers post content that is based on personal belief or bias that their followers often believe because of how passionate they feel about the topic.

The social media platform X (Twitter), claimed that there were record breaking traffic numbers for the 2024 super bowl game. However, with further cybersecurity research they found that 75% of the traffic X had posted about was fake and other social media platforms showed much lower rates. CHEQ's data had also shown that 32% of X's visitors were bots. Elon Musk now faces advertisement concerns over recent comments and poses as future challenges.

I read a comment within this reddit thread that spoke about how one user they came across was only posting links to other advertisements. With some further digging, the user noticed that all of their posts on the account were filled with links and advertisements. An additional discovery was that each post had a significant amount of upvotes. This probably meant that the user was most likely using bots to gain upvotes making his posts look more attractive to other users who came across his page and advertisements. This account is now banned off of reddit which also means that this social media website detected this behavior and deemed the account as an unregistered bot.

I think social media allows bots because influencers or companies use them to generate content which can draw new users or potential customers. Unregistered bots are also hard to detect so some social media sites probably have them unwillingly. Another reason would be for data analysis and to collect data that is used for content strategies and planning.