This mindset is very arrogant. They think that they're doing poor kids a favor by doing charity work that they don't have to worry about all the kinks, but couldn't even go as far as to take input from actual kids.

I think that even with people who speak in other languages, the "for" and "if" coding terms are just symbols to them that they interpret in their brains as something necessary to code. I think the universal code makes it easier to handle.

This is exactly why I stopped using Facebook. The idea of meta and privacy concerns scared me, and honestly whenever I use Facebook I feel like every single thing I do on the site is tracked and used to make money in some way. Sometimes I even feel like they read through messages to use that as advertisement bait as well.

This is pretty scary but really smart. Large corporations really have the most unethical ways of making money. They claim that it is for our own personalized advertisements and for our best interest but in reality it is just so they can make the most amount of money possible.

There have been many instances in which a K=pop idol messes up and gets publicly shamed. Their company usually ends up taking the fall and apologizes on their behalf with a rushed apology letter. This is tailored towards the fans of the artists who are disappointed, as well as whoever was harmed by their actions. K-pop idols usually arise out of scandals pretty quickly, everyone is so lenient on them when they slip up that it gets thrown under the bush to be forgotten about until another person in the industry messes up.

Celebrities and influential figures have to really be careful about what they say or how they are perceived if they want to continue making money. People will stir up the most innocent things and it will make headlines on multiple news sites and may damage their careers permanently. Especially on Twitter, I would constantly see people intentionally spread misinformation and mistranslations of what happened in the hopes of extreme backlash against the specific person.

I think it can be justified against people who commit terrible crimes that are harmful to society. For example, crowd harassment on a murderer would be justified, but in some cases it is unfortunately a bad idea because some of these people get thrilled from getting harassed which fuels them to keep committing these crimes. But I think it is very favorable over people admiring these evil people, which is surprisingly not too rare nowadays.

I always see harassment on social media. Whether it is in the form of a TikTok duet, Instagram comment, or twitter thread, people are very quick at jumping to conclusions. I feel like the people who add on to the harassment are just enabling a bigger audience to join in as well.

This goes for music being used in vlog clips as well. Back when I used to watch a lot of vlogger youtubers, I would notice that even the slightest mention of a copyrighted song, whether they say the lyrics or it is playing in the store they're in, would have the entire video taken down. Or, they would have to mute that part of the video or even take that clip out.

Although this seems ideal and very efficient, there are times where the bots may not be so accurate in moderating these platforms. I think that the bots flagging the content for review and then allowing a human to look through it is a better approach but this may. be time consuming if the platform is very large.

This is so funny, celebrities get so many DMS constantly from fans that I wonder if they ever take a second to look through them. I am sure that most people sending the dms and trauma dumping usually don't think that the celebrity would ever see it, but I wonder what the celebrity would think if they ever stumbled upon it.

I agree. It is also pretty impossible to detox from every single media platform in my opinion, unless you have hobbies and a life that does not revolve around social media in some type of way. I think you can detox from the things that are bringing you anxiety or worry, but it is pretty hard to run away from social media as a whole.

This is so sad in my opinion... He's just a wholesome kid who made the video for fun he didn't deserve to get made fun of. But I do acknowledge that if he was exposed to be a bully or something along the lines of that then I would join in on the mockery but truthfully... I don't think he deserved that

I didn't know that chain letters (mail) were a thing before the internet. I thought that it was just a thing to troll people on the internet for fun in order to increase shares to their posts, I didn't know that it originated from physical mail... it's crazy to think that people would do this to scheme others back then as if there wasn't anything better to do.

YouTube is another site that makes good recommendations, because it takes into account every single video you watch. I could watch a single Family Guy video and then suddenly I am being recommended a bunch of other Family Guy videos on my home page. And I don't know if this counts, but Spotify always recommends me "new" music through playlists, but it always ends up being the same old music I would always listen to. Or, when they do recommend me new music it's never songs I really like. So their "algorithm" isn't as good. The new DJ feature does the same exact thing, I never end up finding new songs that I like enough to add to my playlist. It's only when I go searching for new music myself that I find stuff that I like.

The recommendation algorithm can be both beneficial or harmful. I personally think it differs on certain social media platforms. For Twitter, they mainly show me tweets that my mutuals have liked or have interacted with, and a lot of the times those people I am not following for a reason, so I tend to skip over those tweets. As for Instagram, I could like a few reels of food and my entire search feed would be videos and recipes of really tasty looking food. I notice that it changes easily, if I like a few videos of a celebrity for example, my search feed would end up recommending videos and posts of the same celebrity, which I personally like.

I really like how the book puts disabilities into this perspective. I feel like I generalized it as more of a permanent thing but now reading this it makes me realize how much more there is to having a disability, whether permanent or temporary, it can still greatly affect your day-to-day life.

This definition of disability is considerably broad here. I did not think of being short as a disability until it was put into perspective of the specific situation of not being able to reach tall shelves in grocery stores. I guess when it is put this way, there's a lot of situations where one would have a disability, rather than just narrowing it down to "obvious" disabilities such as being handicapped.

This is extremely scary, I find it hard to trust sites like this because you are giving such personal information online. I feel like your social security number is the most important thing to protect, so companies must work harder to make sure their users privacy is protected and secured...

This is particularly creepy knowing that if I could do enough research myself on how to obtain these passwords, then I could also hack into other peoples' accounts easily. Although I have never been hacked myself, I always get notifications saying that my "data is compromised" and that my passwords have been obtained in a data leak, which is pretty terrifying to think about.

Although I did not know that this was a thing before reading this chapter, it doesn't surprise me that Facebook does this. I don't like the fact that there are probably older people out there who are getting their data collected without their knowledge and consent.

I already knew that they collect this information but reading about it now is kinda chilling. I usually always turn off location services but I feel like there is a way for them to track this anyway somehow. Also, with the new iPhone updates, every time you download a new app it asks you a question about the app developers tracking your information. The options are either, "ask app not to track", or "allow". The fact that we have to ask the app not to track kind of scares me, because I feel like it should just be "allow" or "don't allow" instead.

This is an act that I have personally experienced often while on the internet. Many fail to realize that the purpose of trolling is often to receive reactions from the target audience. Thus, they continue to make attempts in fighting back.

It was interesting to hear this example as trolling is usually thought of as a a rather comedic act to make fun in games. In this case, trolling was used as an act of protection and support from K-pop fans to the protestors.

Now, looking back at my previous annotation this is going to sound condescending but, this is very true. I now understand why they would want to get rid of the accounts that have not been active in years, rather than waste their time trying to track down every "spam" account out there.

If he is able to share the actual percentage of users that are spam bots now that he has bought Twitter, I would be intrigued because I also feel like it is considerably higher than 5%. The amount of group-chats I have been placed in with 30+ accounts with random keyboard combinations as their username is quite concerning. I remember there was talk sometime during the summer about Twitter getting rid of accounts that have not been active in a few years, but I wonder why they would prioritize getting rid of those accounts instead of getting rid of these thousands of spam bots.

I have been receiving Instagram direct messages from seemingly "real" people wanting me to either promote their 50 follower jewelry brand, sell them feet pictures, or be their sugar baby for an allowance. Some even send me messages with suspicious and harmful links in them. Although I can spot these bots from a mile away, many of these accounts are getting way too real, as they are trying to deceive as many people as possible. I'm not sure of the true intentions behind the accounts, but I know that some people may not be aware of these and fall for their scheme.

Although twitter (X) is a very frightful social media platform at times, there's actually plenty of wholesome bots on there. I liked the hug fairy bot, where you could send a virtual hug to another twitter user, anonymous or not, and make their day. Unfortunately, they shut down because of the changes in Twitter's API policies, but I'm sure somewhere along the line they may make a return.

I think this is particularly interesting. It aligns with what I believe in, letting things come naturally and trusting in the universe to take you down the path that is hand-crafted for you. However, I also believe that the butterfly effect is very real, and there are so many outcomes within one single choice you make, so I guess going with your gut feeling with every choice you make is the most ideal thing to do. As long as it feels right and doesn't feel forced.

Often, and oftentimes I think the same as well. Sometimes we see over-exaggerated versions of people's lives that seem so ideal and perfect from what they are portrayed as through social media, but sometimes the reality is the complete opposite. Many people look like they're living the best life, but are actually struggling behind the scenes.