This article on The Pace of Modern Life is interesting because to me, the pace of life is a very individualistic thing. In terms of technology rapidly developing and AI rising quickly from the surface, its easy to think our world is moving so fast with those changes. And it is, however, I also find it hard that that determines the pace of life. But when reading this article, it refelcts alot on different generations and their imrpovments, and now does feel especially fast in the world of booming technology and things being all online and social media having such a large presence.

My views on social media have definitely been reinforced in the sense that bots and automated processes have a lot of presence in that realm. I didn't really realize it because It isn't really the type of thing that I interact with most, but taking this class, I've realized that social media actions such as harassment, trolling, and other algorithms are often produced by bots.

I read this brief article about supply and demand. having taken economics courses, this is one of the most fundamental concepts to daily life. In the context of capitalism, beause the amount of capital just continues to rise, supply cannot keep up with the amount of demand. This makes it difficult for the market to reach equilibrium and be in a place where supply = demand. This leads to hosuing markets, job markets, and etc all struggling to serve all communities.

I see capitalism show up in the US in so many ways. One way specifically is when creators use others pain and grief and monetize off of that, whether thats making videos about it, unnecessary articles, or really just any way to get clicks and views. Because it is off of someone elses story, yes it could beconsidered news, but at a certain point, people focus too much on making money from others experiences.

This is an interesting concept that I haven't really heard of. It seems like its more prevalent in other cultures, but nonetheless, I think its interesting to have a bias on someone based on how they treat other and their overall power and actions towards others. I often base people off of how they are treating someone else like my friend for instance, so I think the concept of "face" encapsulates a good telling of what a person could be about and their ultimate motives.

The language that was used, the tone it was said in, and the audience to which it was put out. Another thing to consider is the context of the public shaming, whether it was a reply to something or just out of the blue. In making public shaming bad, I think it depends on multiple different factors, as well as how the audience and person being shamed interact with it. It might often get lost if the person it was directed to doesn't engage with it.

This article about trolling and how that has been seen from angles of hate crime, etc is interesting because you never really know the true intentions behind trolling. Because its often an algorithm or a line of code behind it, its hard to pinpoint a situation in which it would be taken very seriously. However, when its being done on suicide victims pages, that definitley feels more targeted and like a real serious issue.

I think that one benefit of quote posts are that you could express your support on a certain topic that you might not be wanting to throw out on your account itself. Whether this is political, ethical, or whatever standpoint the post is on, supporting can show a piece of your character that you might want to reveal. A drawback is that if people tweet or post their opinion in the first place, it is incredibly easy to receive hate or pushback from what you post. Although this is possible with any post, its especially prevalent with quote posts.

I looked at this platform called Patreon. This platform essentially bridges a large gap between creators and users who interact with them via podcasts, social media, etc. I think that this is a form of crowdsourcing because it's a way that creators gain feedback and new ideas of what their fans actually want to see, and it looks like it's through interactive chats and more direct communication.

I think that one way I have participated in crowdsourcing online is by voting in companies polls via instagram. Sometimes if I see a company that I like or shop from posting ideas of new flavors, products, etc, I will vote in a poll to try and get my input into the production of something new. I feel like this is a prime example of crowdsourcing because they get a ton of responses and use that to source data from their crowd and participants.

This article about how a woman had no wikipedia page until she was associated with a male is so sad to me. She literally won a Nobel Peace Prize and is not recognized onliine for it in any public matter. It is only until a man is beside her name that they rcognize it. This is extremley disappointing because id think that an accomplishment that big wouldn't go unrecognized because of gender.

Ive reported one thing for violating rules because my friend was posted in something she did not consent too/ So me and my friends all reported it together hoping it would get taken down and she wouldn't have to do anything further to remove the post. It didn't necessarily break the platforms rules, but it violated her personal privacy.

I definitely relate to this article about how photo editing harms body image. After seeing perfect pictures over and over again, I definitely compare myself and have started to think poorly of how I appear. I think this is a really common issue because people like certain "influencers" and when they see influencers posting these photos and feeding into that beauty standard, its hard not to think that you have to be that way and need to change yourself.

Social media has negativley affected my mental health because I often compare my life to other peoples. Even though it is not an sccurate representation and often shows onely good, its hard not to compare myself when seeing others posts. On the other hand, social media has been good for my mental health in terms of my relations with friends. It makes it easy to connect with mutual friends and even meet new people you might now have. For example, I met my UW roomate through instagram and we are friends.

This article talks about how a woman lost her baby and was using social media to track her pregnancy. She had finally mustered up the courage to reopen the apps months after the tradgedy occured, only to find that reporting that she lost her baby was extremeley difficult to find. I think that this is the companies way of getting users to keep interacting with the app despite wanting to delete her account. I think it all ties back to user metrics and how to keep the user engaged.

I think that platforms have the responsibility of prioritizing user well-being over raw metrics, as well as their algorithms should be designed to empower users and instead of potentially harming them. I also think that platforms need to be more transparent and take accountability for how content is promoted.

I thought that this brief article on color blindness was interesting, especially the statistic about the probability of male versus female color blindness. To me, that kind of makes sense because all of the people I know who are color blind are males, but I just didn't think the difference was that drastic. I also thought it was interesting that color blindness tends to be with a couple of specific colors, and not all colors in general.

I think that this is important to note because often times something that is labelled as "accessible" is only referring to physically accessible. But like this chapter says, there are many other disabilities that are invisible from the outside look of someone. Even though designers may think that there structure is accessible to all, it really is hard to make everything work for everyone, given many different conditions.

I read this article about work messages being private and how companies often have access to what employees think is private messaging to a colleague. I think that companies should be allowed to do this because they are providing the device for the worker and it should only be used for work related purposes. But given this, it feels like it should be disclosed to employees when they are given the device.

For me, my biggest concern is how people access my information and what they do with it. I know that alot of information about people is public and easy to find, but I also don't want my personal email phone number and other things to be used when running algorithms, for data collection, and things like that in general.

I thought that this article on how facebook collects data whether you have an account or not is interesting. Essentially, they prompt their ads on your web browser to hopefully reach you, then from there, they are hoping you click that first initial sign up button. They also use the feature of "inviting friends to join facebook" when another user joins and syncs their contacts to invite them. Whatever information you share through contact info can be used for data collection. That feels like an invasion of privacy, when you aren't even giving permission to your info.

I thought that this was particularly interesting because this is definitely still the case, and I feel as though we haven't really moved away from it. Oftentimes, people assume people race or ethnicity based on one profile picture, or maybe if they have a hometown in their bio. This to me feels really invasive because you literally know nothing based on that information. I don't like how people are now using AI to determine that, as it puts peoples information even more outthere and exposed to other data.

I didn't realize that trolling was a large part of the internets and social medias consumption. It occurs alot in other countries and this article talks about how its referred to as "fishing" in Japan, essentially just deliberately making a user want to engage with a post because it invokes emotion.

I think that the best way to deal with trolling is to ignore it and not engage with the bot or person trolling. I feel like the more you engage, the more your algorithm feeds you things that are considered trolling, and it all just becomes a feedback loop that annoys a user. I personally do not like engaging in trolling.

This source talks about how Twitter is taking Elon Musk to court for being hypocritical and in "bad faith". I think this is interesting because you would think that since he owns twitter, they can't sue him and he has the highest level of power. Which I feel like is true but in a way there is still a source of authority for the image of the company and how thats reflected. This relates to data because he ultimatley has control over what twitter posts and how theyre perceived.

One example of this is the spread of misinformation. When we see headlines or posts that may seem misleading, it's really easy to confirm them in our heads and then tell someone. Instead of checking the source, making sure it's true, or even reading beyond the headline, people have a tendency to just take it and run, making themself misinformed and essentially ignorant about the situation.

The gender pay gap bot essentially replies to tweets that have tagged their account with a statement if women's and mens pay is equal at that company. If accurate, I think that this could be a good way to gauge the surface level of industries that have a gender wage gap or not. One thing that I thought was interesting was how all the posts that this bot replied to were from International Women's Day.

Peoples expectations are different for a bot and normal user because a bot often is associated with something that is taking up space or activity and that is preventing a normal user from being able to access a platform. So I feel like people expect normal users to make mistakes and take a longer time at completing something while if a bot was present, it is automatically programmed to do something, making a process quicker but also potentially stopping a normal user from achieving something.

I hear this phrase multiple times a week, all in diffferent occasions. In my experience, I hear it mostly when talking about someones post that showcases so many good things and looks like what would be a perfect life. But this phrase then comes up and I realize that what people post and choose to post is often such a small percentage of real life. I am definitely familiar with this phrase in terms of posting perfect pictures, but also in topics such as fake news or propaganda.

The section on virtue ethics was interesting to me because I feel as though many people stand by their own virtues and have their own set of virtues, which can vastly differ from those of people you may think you are similar to. I think that this framework ultimately comes from one's upbringing and what was prioritized in moments of growth and learning. I also think it is interesting to compare this to a set of virtues that I am familiar with called the "7 heavenly virtues," which are rooted in Catholicism and are known as chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience, and humility. While these are based on the Bible, it is interesting to see the overlap, as religion can be very polarizing and has strong beliefs. A statement that I believe ties these two together is "In acting virtuously, you are training yourself to become more virtuous, and you will subsequently be able to act even more virtuously."