I would say I am more knowledgable about the many different ways to use social media and how encompassing it is. In addition, I have a lot more background on how trolls and bots work.

This seams like an example of fighting fire with fire. I think that in this scenario all parties were in the wrong, especially the fact that they decided to execute many of the factory workers, although the workers did not go about the situation the right way. This reminds me about conversations involving AI taking over human jobs. Although I think humans have made it this far with having machines and still having jobs so I think that well be able to last in the future.

If Meta owns Facebook, then why were they saying that Facebook is gonna be changed to the name "Meta"? Also on the same note, I remember people said that this named was changed and so I expected everyone to start calling Facebook Meta but everyone kept calling it Facebook. So did its name ever change or not?

Honestly, this is very messed up considering the fact that these industries are already making bank. I suppose the reason it is this way is probably because of the few individuals who want to play dirty it corrupts the entire industry and therefore everyone is obligated to play dirty to stay on pace.

I don't really understand this theory. Like how are the weak supposed to use shame against the strong, and why does guilt not also apply in the same situation. Is this concept like making a country feel ashamed of being part of the slave trade?

Ive watched these videos and I find them to be particularly funny. A lot of the times the kids won't event be that mad and if they are upset they will forgive the parents. A lot of the times I will be feeling even more angry for the kid even though I am aware that the situation is a prank.

No I definitely don't which is one thing that is wrong with our culture in the age of social media we love cancel culture. I think on an individual level people can acknowledge that its wrong but that doesn't stop us from harassing someone in mass when they mess up.

I have experienced very minor harassment, with someone commenting rude things on my Instagram. And I have definitely witnessed it even more.

I think I have contributed to crowdsourcing by trying to find more about a person by using various different platforms and means. Although I do not know if this would be entirely considered as crowdsourcing because I feel like the definition is hard for me to grasp.

I would say that the reason behind this is not that the general public does not want to contribute to doing these things. But it is more so because these possibilities aren't really widely known or accessible.

If Wikipedia is a website edited by normal people and is subject to misinformation then why is it one of the biggest informational websites? Almost every time I search for a topic Wikipedia is the first site to come up.

I find this concept so interesting. Like why are people volunteering to be mods if they don't get paid? What permissions are these people granted that makes being a mod worth it?

Yes, I believe I have. I think I reported an account that was impersonating a person that I follow. In addition, I think I have reported offensive comments on my page.

In my opinion in situations like this I believe that either the commenters should be held responsible which is difficult. Or even though it is unfortunate the individuals getting negative comments should be held responsible. I don't think that the responsibility should be put on people in charge of creating the platform because I think that is just way too much work.

Honestly this is so real and not talked about enough. Like sometimes I find social media to be toxic and draining so I want to delete it but I can not help but feeling isolated and removed from society because that is how a lot of people connect.

I totally agree with this viewpoint. Whenever people ask me questions concerning social media in our time and ask if I would get rid of it, I say no. Truly I would love to go back to a time before social media but I am not able to do that, so for me to delete my social media in a time where it does exist simply does not make any sense.

I remember seeing this on TikTok for the first time probably like a year or two ago and I thought it was really funny. I really commend the first persons duet because he is really the one who started it.

When it comes to replication I don't have too much of a problem with it but I don't like those accounts that repost others people's videos. If you think about it, its kind of weird that there are social media accounts that post what other people post.

They have always done this on instagram which is fine. But recently they started sending you a notification that "someone you may know is on instagram" this became really annoying because I don't think that piece of information is important enough to be notified about.

Honestly I have very mixed feelings about recommendation algorithms specifically for the platform TikTok. Now tiktoks algorithm is based off of videos you've watched and liked. Although this sometimes gets annoying when just because I've watched a certain thing they keep trying to feed me that content when I may not be that interested in it or I just don't want my feed saturated with it. Although I also rely on this featuring hoping that it will feed me videos that I am interested in.

I think that this is fair because at the end of the day, the designers are getting paid. It may be extra work and money but that is/should be part of their job anyways.

Hot take: I believe that doctors overprescribe glasses as a way to make money. I think that way too many people wear glasses and if some of those people did not get glasses when they were little their vision would be just fine now. In addition they make glasses so they only make your vision worse instead of improving it.

I think violating privacy is innate in human behavior. For example wanting to know all of the details of a celebrities life which is not really your business therefore encroaching on their privacy. The more we know the more we can use this Information to our advantage. So I think social media companies are the same. They violate our privacy not just for fun but so they can use it to their advantage to advance their company or other reasons.

I wonder if this is illegal, or if somewhere on Facebooks terms and conditions they mentioned that. Because if this was illegal I wonder if their could be a lawsuit where everyone who had a Facebook account could receive money. Either way, this is obviously morally wrong.

I think this just speaks to the fact that TikTok is truly so influential. Having social media sites where things like "influencers" are present truly makes the day and age we are living in so unique.

I never thought about the fact that platforms could collect information about non-users. I was always under the impression that if you don't have an account you were basically invisible on that platform. To know that this information is also tracked and monitored is kind of scary. Basically no one is safe.

I think these parody examples are used to draw attention to the impracticality of the device. Essentially by over-exaggerate the devices usefulness they are showing how unnecessary it is.

I have watched a lot of British YouTube channels and it seems like the term "griefing" is more commonly used in the UK. Like British people will say "they're giving me grief" if that person is giving them a hard time.

I personally don't really think it matters too much who wrote the tweet. I think with such a big figure like Donald Trump you would not expect them to write all there tweets themselves. Just how many celebrities have writers who often write their speeches for them I think the same makes sense for twitter.

I feel like users doubting creators authenticity especially because instances like this have occurred. Especially with prank style videos them often end up being inauthentic. Another example is people doubting whether or not the stories Emma Chamberlain would tell are true.

I don't really like this type of social media because even if the user claims that there was not intention of harm, I feel like it is really easy for a platform like this to get out of hand. With having little restrictions and being able to post anonymously I have a feeling there are a lot of offensive things that are posted

This system sounds similar to twitter in the sense that you would reply to others message and such. I wonder if twitter was inspired by the bulletin board system.

Now this is a good question because whenever I am asked for my address I don't know what to write. I t makes a lot of sense for me to put my permanent address because that is the one that resonates with me. Although if the address is needed for something in the near future it makes sense for me to put my dorm address.

Ive always known that images are created out of pixels but it is interesting to see just how many colors there are in a seemingly two colored image. However even when I squint at the pixel image of the fire it doesn't look exactly like the emoji. It seems like their is not enough contrast as in the original emoji.

Even though there are bots that are "good" I personally think that all bots should be banned. Whilst maybe the "good" ones are helpful and all their existence only allows the existence of bad bots as well, therefore I dislike all pots.

From my own personal experience the expectations for a bot and a normal user are huge. Bots are unable to give very tailored responses and for the most part they just produce general automated information. That is why I find it pretty easy to tell the difference between the two online.

I believe that this viewpoint is very twisted and backwards. I feel like this view sort of justifies the prison system and if this were the case no one should be eligible for a retrial. I think the fact that there are a wide range of standards which consequences are given it doesn't make sense to say that whatever consequence someone was given they deserved it.

Although I do understand Kumail Nanjiani's point about the disappointment over fact that there is little consideration of ethical implications of tech. I do have to agree with the fact that there becomes a point where it's out of the companies hands and I think it is most important to hold responsibility to the users. The reason being is because I think if a bunch of safeguards were put on certain platforms that would potentially end up removing a lot of positive things about the platform.