This source discusses that AI functions less like a regular tool and rather like a global consulting force similar to that of McKinsey. Stating that AI is currently used to strengthen corporate power and increase inequality. Warning that right now, without changes, AI will benefit the corporate world more than an individual.

As a social media user, going forward, this class encouraged me to think about the ethics of social media, specifically the ethics behind AI-driven social media algorithms that promote user engagement and profit, and disregard the damage that these algorithms do to users' mental health.

This source discusses the definition of capitalismm and how the private ownership of companies and economic systems are usually manipulated for personal profit.

Public funding is something that I can relate to, as my dad had invested in many Kickstarter companies and then tested their products for them. I find this a good idea, and it helps smaller companies share their ideas and products with the world, and the people who first invested in the product get it first. However, when investing in Kickstarter, you must be cautious because once you invest that money, you can either get the product back or just lose your money because the company failed.

This source discusses how shame is connected to trauma and how, when specifically it is posted to social media, it can make people feel worthless. Online shaming can create real damage psychologically, especially when millions of people see it and comment on it, it can cause severe psychological harm.

Cancel culture is something that I feel like has emerged more in the past couple of years, especially with the rise of TikTok and other big social media platforms. While I don't think canceling somebody is bad, it must be for the right reasons. I think that many people get canceled for things that are not really a big deal, and therefore, they can lose everything in their lives. I can agree with cancel culture; however, when the person really did do something bad.

Doxxing is another term for people exposing others' personal information and where they live on the internet. This can include things like IP addresses, real addresses, and other personal information. With this information, people on the internet can find your house and come to it which is a scary thing.

This has personally happened to me with the app Snapchat where someone that I kind of knew showed up to my house, telling me to come outside. I did not go outside and told the person to leave.

This source discusses the timeline of crowdsourcing, starting from as early as the year 614. It also discusses how crowdsourcing has had impact on the different fields.

This would make sense for most of the other social media sites as well. Most people don't post all the time, meanwhile there is a smaller amount of people that are posting almost every single day or are posting every single day. Meanwhile, most people are posting things to their social media maybe once a month or even less than that. This would mean that a smaller percentage makes up a significant portion of the posts.

This source discusses Facebook moderators and how they were experiencing seeing traumatising things on facebook such as murder and death. These videos traumatized the Facebook moderators, and they were simply told to suck it up. It was even proposed that they should start doing karaoke and painting in order to help them.

I find this very Interesting and not good. I believe that companies such as Facebook should be able to pay their workers enough since they are such a large company and have the money to be able to pay their workers. I also believe that Facebook should already have filters in place so that videos of murder and other bad things can't be posted.

This source discusses spamming and what it entails. Spamming is generally used to reach the largest number of people possible in order to either advertise something. This, however, is only one form of spamming; spamming can also be used to annoy others and fill up their inbox in order to disturb them.

Something that I find interesting is how different sites moderate content. Sites like TikTok have much stricter sensors restricting explicit content from being posted. When sites like Instagram have looser restrictions on their content, but still not compared to sites like X(Twitter), where content moderation is basically non-existent.

This source discusses the Facebook experiment where Facebook secretly exposed hundreds of thousands of people to either more positive or negative content and then performed a study to see how that impacts the viewers. The people who were shown more negative things on their feed tended to post more negative things themselves as well.

I find this very interesting and valuable to me as well, because my writing project focuses on the negative impacts of social media algorithms on people's minds. Now knowing that when people were shown more negative posts, they tend to post more negatively about themselves so I will use this source to help my writing project as well.

This source discussed the consequences that occur when you post your children without them being able to have a say in what they are posted in. One mother in particular suffered the consequences of this because she posted videos of her daughter dancing around the house, and most of the comments were on her daughter's appearance, which quickly prompted her to take the videos off the internet.

I think that this comment is very interesting and I would like to add my personal experience with the mutation of social media and the memes of social media that evolved into what memes are today. Memes have evolved from one another and continue to do so every day, an example of this being "brainrot," a form of memes that first began around 2020 but still evolved into being relevant today.

This source discusses how Twitter's internal analysis of its algorithm tends to amplify right-leaning content more than it does left-leaning content. The study also showed that right-leaning politicians tend to gain more visibility than their liberal counterparts.

I'd like to add my personal experience to this. I have the feeling that when I talk about something or even think about it remotely, my social media pages know that I talked about it and start feeding me posts that relate to the things I was talking about. This makes me feel like I am being listened to on my phone and that my social media knows everything about my life.

This source discusses people saying autism is not a disability. Many people consider autism as a disability and think this way because they see the meltdowns on social media, but that only really occurs when there are other stimulating factors for the people with autism. So one must consider the the other factors when seeing an autism meltdown.

I personally wear glasses and contacts, and it has never impeded me negatively, nor has it been considered a disability. So here I disagree with the course content because glasses I believe are not seen as a disability but rather a normal thing in society.

This source discusses the right to privacy and each person's right to privacy. It discusses the law and the United States rights that make sure that each citizen has the right to have their own personal and private information and lives.

This post is very interesting because it does not technically have any means for a lawsuit. If celebrities who could have gotten their information leaked, that could ruin their phones with the number of people who try to contact them after their information is leaked.

This source discusses the tracking that different websites use the persons information for different things. Government websites can use your information to track almost all the information about the user including their location which can be quite controversial for many people.

I find this interesting because I notice when scrolling on social media myself that even when I just watch a post longer than I do another it automatically starts showing me related content even if I did not interact with the post at all.

This source discusses one of the earliest moments of trolling. The BBC broadcast an April Fool's video showing spaghetti growing on trees. This surprisingly worked because the people of Britain were not yet familiar with spaghetti, convincing many that spaghetti actually grew on trees. This is considered one of the most significant instances of trolling by an official broadcasting network. However, this being such a big event, it is still considered harmless, especially in comparison to the trolling that goes on today.

When looking at the example of the person mispronouncing Hors d'oeuvres, it is an act of a harmless troll. If someone does mispronounce this, the worst thing that would happen is someone correcting them. I think this type of trolling is both amusing and harmless. However, that is not the case for a lot of trolls who have harmful intent behind their messages on the internet.

One of the things that I noticed in this source was the inauthenticity that was discussed about the COVID-19 death rates, showing that the true number of deaths was actually much higher than official reports said. Things like this can cause mistrust among societies, which can ultimately lead to their downfall.

I think that it is super interesting that we can take artifacts that prove that being honest and being authentic is something that societies have relied on to stay successful for thousands of years.

A detail from the source that I found interesting is that the first radio signals were being sent in the 1970s at the University of Hawaii, but it took until 20 years later in 1992, in Germany for the first actual text message to be sent.

My question is, why did Facebook put all of its competitors out of business so quickly? What did they do so much better that the others could not compete? Social media platforms like Myspace were dominating the industry, and for one social media platform to just completely dominate over the ones that were also leading in the industry.

The Wikipedia article " All models are wrong" explores the famous saying of George Box, " All models are wrong but some are useful." This is said because it emphasizes that every model is a simplification of reality and therefore cannot be completely accurate. However, they still prove to be of value to us as they help us understand things about complex systems

This point I can relate to as well. I personally am a dual citizen and when asked what country I am from I have trouble answering. I was born in Germany, but I only lived there for a year before moving to the United States. So I ask myself, am I German or am I American? I've spent my entire life growing up in the United States and have a US citizenship, which just further convinces me that I am more American than I am German. Despite this, I still think that my German heritage is very strong as I speak, read, and write in German. However this still does not make me think that i am more german than American

This source displays the controversies that surround bots that make either racist or negative comments and how to prevent such things from happening. This article discusses one bot in particular, a Microsoft bot that went rogue and started posting racist comments. The article discusses how this can be easily prevented by creating a blacklist of racist words that the bot is not allowed to use or post. It also discusses how the bots should be restricted from imitating humans too closely, and can do so by creating restrictions from the start that the bots should not do.

Using bots to sway the public's opinion is something that I have also personally experienced. My high school's ASB Instagram page created a like contest between the grades, and depending on which class got the most amount of likes on each respective post, that class would be granted 20 class points. This motivation of class points provoked people to use sites that would make bot accounts like the posts. This ended up getting out of hand, with one of the class posts ending up with almost 1 million likes, which were all bot-generated.

This phrase highlights how the internet fabricates false representations of the people who post on it. Whether the posts are from friends, celebrities, or just bots, one can not determine how someone's life is just based on the things that they post on social media. A person could just post the good things in their lives on social media, which just shadows the worst things going on in their lives. The same thing applies to celebrities. Posts made by celebrities can often just give people a false image of the person that they really are.

As someone who uses multiple social media sites to communicate information between people, one must understand that communication is portrayed differently across platforms. For example, the social media platform Snapchat communicates much differently than a social media platform like X/twitter. Snapchat uses the approach of communication between individuals and private groups while X/twitter takes a more public approach to communication where an individual creates a post where everyone can see depending on thier accounts privacy status. Therefore creating different ways of communication amongst social media platforms.