This article is about how social media filters and photo editing apps can negatively affect people's body image, and it called "Snapchat dysmorphia". People tried to focus on their appearance on social media before they post it like using filter and editing their body perfectly. It explains Snapchat and Instagram can create unrealistic beauty standards, making they feel insecure about their natural looks. Also it concerns from psychologists and medical professionals about the mental health effects of comparing real appearances to unrealistic online images.

The good side is that I can stay updated with the news every day and learn useful tips from other people for daily life, work, and studying. I can also stay connected with my family and friends when they are far away by messaging, calling, and seeing their posts. The bad side is that social media can make us victims of cyberbullying at any time, even because of a small mistake, such as leaving a comment that others disagree with or posting a photo and then being body-shamed and this still happens quite often.

The blog Spinops by Nobu Tamura mainly shares his artwork about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. What stands out is how he doesn’t just draw for fun but his illustrations are based on scientific research, so they feel both creative and educational at the same time. It helps us imagine what these extinct creatures might have actually looked like in real life. This feels like a mix of art and science. It shows how one person can use the internet to share their passion and knowledge with others in a simple but effective way.

I think the idea of replication on social media is really fascinating, because how these content can spread in so many ways beyond just reposting. I realized some people interacts with posts like replying, screenshotting, add some emotinal into those comment, they can helping it changing its meaning or going so far. When people add their own captions or context to a post, it can completely shift how others interpret the original message. Before reading about this, I didn’t really think about how these small changes could “carry forward” future versions.

After reading this article, I realized something unsafe when using Facebook. This article mentioned about our phone number isn’t just used for security which can be used to find our profile. If we add our phone number on only for two-factor authentication, Facebook still allows people to look you up using that number (sometime we feel safe and dont want anyone hack our account like protective but not). One interesting is that this feature could be abused because someone could upload a large list of phone numbers and match them to Facebook profiles, making it easier to identify or track people so that's why I never allow this feature. I think this raised concerns among privacy experts because it shows how personal data can be used in ways users don’t expect.

I think algorithms are the most important thing to creating a social media. Because that collected data from users and show what they want or mentioned before on their account. Like we are using Facebook and can see friend suggestion or people you may know when we just met someone once or talked about them. Just like Facebook is reading your mind, sounds like creepy in a funny way. So algorithm is working, So if you and someone else have some connections in common, Facebook kind of “guesses” that you might know each other. I wonder how much social media really know about us.

Color blindness is a topic that is rarely discussed because some people do not realize that they have it until they encounter a certain situation. My uncle often confuses colors and once he said that he wanted to buy the lipstick color that his wife liked but it was quite difficult for him because lipstick colors often have different shades like red, which has many shades of red. I have seen a few devices that help them distinguish between different colors like glasses for example. They will have difficulty if they work in fields related to art. This disability most commonly defines men.

Unfortunately I had seen this in real life but never thought of it this way. I have bad vision but I seen menu, instructions, guidelines,.. written so tiny that I blame myself when I can't read. Yet after learn about this definition i realize how everyone normalize this behavior. I would really appreciate if more people learn about this definition so there's no more "sorry, we're not handicap friendly".

This article is about PM is a form of communication that only the sender and receiver can see, unlike public posts. It has become more popular with the rise of social media and the growing need for privacy. On Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, people can communicate each other's privately without leaving the app. On WhatsApp or Snapchat, they can send private message. Another type is peer-to-peer messaging, where users control their own data and communication system. PMs are commonly used for personal conversations, business communication, and sharing sensitive information, but they can also be misused for spam, scams, or harassment.

My biggest concerns is how they can access my information easily through the data they collected. I just received an email about my data will be leak and public on another website if I do not change my password or read new the privacy rules. I’ve seen many people get their Facebook or Instagram accounts hacked after clicking on suspicious links sent to their email or posted in the comments under a post. What’s even crazier is that their personal information gets stolen, they lose money, or their accounts are used for illegal things.

The article explains that Facebook isn’t just tracking people who use it, but also collecting information from people who don’t have an account, for example through contact lists when users upload their contacts, or by recognizing and tracking non-users who visit pages connected to its services. We don’t fully know what data is collected about us, which raises concerns about privacy and our ability to control personal information.

I feel like social media now mainly collects data from everything we’ve ever watched or searched on other websites, or even things we’ve talked about in real life (like it’s listening). I spend time scrolling TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, sometimes up to more than 10 hours a day, because I get drawn into videos I actually want to watch. Sometimes I just search for a piece of clothing on Safari on my iPhone, then I switch to TikTok and see someone wearing it, or after a few more posts, ads for that exact product start showing up. I think this is how they keep us on the apps longer and slowly turn it into a daily habit. I wonder how much they actually know about us as technology keeps developing.

This source is about "truth inside the joke" where the joke is pushed so far that it can become real on social media. A tool cuts bananas into pieces and one person thinks it's funny and not useful. The initial reviews were of a satire nature, but later they left reviews exaggerating its uses, "changing lives", "saving marriages" along with meme pictures on social networking forums. There are thousands of fake reviews that even though they know it's a joke, they still continue to "act" to increase interaction or make them feel happy, for example.

I've seen a lot of comments on social media like how they make fun of a misinformation and make it seem real. Leave countless comments mocking or ready to bully someone who comments saying this is not true. Example is posting misinformation about a celebrity with a love scandal and someone goes to correct it and they say that that person lives next door or is a relative or something that knows so well. Or people who don't get the joke will get comments like why don't they know and don't ask about the joke. Social media users continue to share, report and interact with such content as if it were true, causing misinformation to spread faster and harder to control.

This article looks at data from Donald Trump’s tweets and suggests that they might actually come from two different people like Trump and his team. Tweets sent from Android tend to sound more angry and negative, often using stronger or more critical language, while tweets from iPhone are more calm and professional, likely posted by his team to share updates, events, or images. They uses text analysis to look at tone and word choice to guess who is behind each tweet but I think people do not even care which one write it. Sometimes we saw his post was edit and deleted by his team maybe. It also shows how social media can be used to shape a certain image online, which connects to parasocial relationships where people feel like they understand someone based only on what they see online.

I see parasocial relationships all the time. We interact with each other a lot more on social media instead of meeting in real life, since it’s easy to stay behind different accounts and present a different version of ourselves online. People spend a lot of time watching vlogs on YouTube, and it can feel like they’re traveling along with the creator in their own imagination. They also listen to podcasts where creators share personal stories, which can feel like talking to a close friend even though there isn’t actually a real relationship. It can be comforting, especially when the stories are similar to what they’ve experienced, because it feels like someone understands them. When watching livestreams, people leave comments, and if the creator says their name or replies to them, it can feel exciting to get that kind of attention from a celebrity or influencer, even if the interaction is very brief.

This source talks about Text messaging and how it’s used for quick, everyday our communication. It explains why texting has become such a normal part of how people stay in touch. When I read it, it made me realize how often I text without even thinking about it which just feels like the easiest way to communicate. I think it shows how something simple like messaging can become our daily habits over time.

This reminds me of TikTok, where the vertical swipe is a really strong affordance. When I use it, I don’t really stop to think about what to do next and just keep swiping up without even realizing it. It feels very natural, like the app is kind of guiding me. I notice something similar with Facebook too, where the endless scrolling feed makes me want to keep going to see more posts. Honestly, I think this design makes both apps really engaging, but at the same time, I sometimes catch myself spending way more time on them than I planned because it’s just so easy to keep scrolling.

This reminds me of TikTok, where the vertical swipe is a really strong affordance. When I use it, I don’t really stop to think about what to do next and just keep swiping up without even realizing it. It feels very natural, like the app is kind of guiding me. I notice something similar with Facebook too, where the endless scrolling feed makes me want to keep going to see more posts. Honestly, I think this design makes both apps really engaging, but at the same time, I sometimes catch myself spending way more time on them than I planned because it’s just so easy to keep scrolling.

While reading this post, I noticed the user is dealing with a problem where their last name is too long for the system, and others in the comments are sharing advice or similar situations. I realize how systems like TurboTax simplify real-world information by setting character limits. In reality, names don’t have a fixed length, so this can be frustrating for people with longer names. I can relate to this because my own name is also quite long, and I’ve had similar issues where some characters get cut off when entering my information. So I often have to double check multiple times to make sure everything is correct. It also shows that some users are not fully supported by these systems and I wonder why these limits exist and whether they could be made more flexible.

TikTok only shows the number of likes as an integer data type, meaning it tells me how many people liked a video, but it does not show different emotions like Facebook, where users can react with various feelings. So we cannot really tell whether people truly enjoyed the video or just saved or liked it to share with others. It does not clearly reflect viewers’ real feelings, including mine. Another example is text data such as usernames and profile pictures which are based on users’ personal preferences and do not necessarily reflect who they are in real life. This is why there are many fake accounts on social media, created for different purposes. Sometimes when scrolling on TikTok, I wonder why I see unfamiliar videos that I have never searched for or talked about. I think this happens because the platform collects data from my followers, and if they like certain types of videos, similar content may also appear on my feed.

This is a website where people can buy followers, likes and views at many different prices. The goal is to show people who follow you your influence on social networks to increase interaction. I think it's useful for content creators because they want to cooperate with business parties and those parties need people with high engagement and it's all based on likes, views and followers. With high views, posts will be pushed and appear on trends faster and create trust because we will often stop at videos or posts with high interaction instead of low interaction.

Based on my experience, this is a example of the usefulness of using bots as I have been using Instagram for a long time and sometimes fake followers who tag my personal account in a few promotional posts, the bots clean up and block them. I often use auto captions for Tiktok to easily translate many languages ​to understand the message they are saying.