Now it’s your turn, choose some data that you might want to store on a social media type, and think through the storage types and constraints you might want to use:
Age: Integer, must be positive Name: String, no constraints Address: String, must be a valid address Relationship status: String, user must choose from list of provided options (single, married, dating, its complicated) alternatively could be a Boolean to represent single and not single
What does this bot do that a normal person wouldn’t be able to, or wouldn’t be able to as easily? Who is in charge of creating and running this bot? Does the fact that it is a bot change how you feel about its actions?
The bot I chose is the headliner clip caption bot. This bot automatically responds to tags under videos and responds with the same video but now with captions of whatever is said in the video. The large scale nature of this would make it near impossible for an individual as they would need to constantly monitor their tags, watch and transcribe a video, edit it with the transcription, and then reply to the original user, all of which within an impossibly small window of time. The bot itself is ran by Headliner an automated captioning company. This bot seems to be a way to promote their service. If this were all done by a human I would be extremely impressed but because it's a bot, I am not. Though, I am always pleased to see bots created and ran with the purpose of improving the accessibility of a platform.
How often do you hear phrases like “social media isn’t real life”? How do you think about the relationship between social media and “real life”?
I don't often encounter that phase or those similar to because the social medias I use don't encourage the repetition of phrases such as this. I believe this sentiment would be most common on text based platforms that encourage discussion between users like twitter or bluesky. This is because of the ability to easily reply to a different users post on ones own account rather than just as comments beneath a post. The result of this being that users are incentivized to retweet a widely unpopular post with a generic phrase like this one in order to essentially say "the bad thing is bad" and garner positive attention. Furthermore, the low effort nature of doing so makes it all that more common unlike on other platforms like tiktok where you can do something similar but because of the video format requiring much more effort to post, users are less likely to go through the effort of making a video only to parrot the same phrase.
In the internet era where much of ones interaction with others happens online, social media is a very real part of everyday life. That said, there is much more to real life than just social media and as such one should not invest too much time into it, neglecting the other, more fulfilling aspects of life.