Monica Lewinsky is a perfect example of someone who got wrapped into 'virality'. People found this news to be concerning or engaging, so it survived over time. To this day, you can find memes and articles of her on the internet.

I've always known that what humans find the most useful, relatable, accessible, or enjoyable typically has a lasting impact. However, I've never linked it in this way to natural selection. It's about the survival of the fittest, the meme/tech/belief/etc. that can withstand time. I found this link to be interesting and something that made it easy to connect the phenomenas to each other.

This article speaks about how Facebook made it necessary for account users to enter their phone number when setting up an account. That's normal when you think about verification. However, the platform misuses this information by continuing its privacy breaches. Furthermore, other people who have access to your phone number can look at your account. It can show targeted ads. There is a whole list of privacy breaches this platform has been accused of.

This makes me think about today's social media, which is full of bots, hateful speech, and overall negativity. I believe it's very easy for those running these platforms to avoid this, but they choose not to, as it results in more user engagement.

This source speaks about color blindness. Color blindness has fascinated as I have friends who are partially color blind and I've always been curious to see the world in their eyes. Linking this to technology, it is impressive how in many devices like iphones you can adjust the color of your display, thus, helping people with color blindness as they don't have to view/interact with a color they can't see.

I've honestly never given that much thought. We often criticize technology for multiple different things such as being difficult to understand for a certain demographic, but we don't take into account that it also caters to so many demographics with its accessibility. Honestly, as sayings go, like 'get outside', 'touch grass', and 'see the real world ', but sometimes this digital world may be far easier for some people to interact with.

This article shocked me. Not only would a company breach privacy of its users, the very reason why they exist, but wouldn't notify them and wouldn't make any steps to resolve the problem. It's shocking that in the everyday world we see powerful people talk down to the public and, for one reason or another, find an excuse not to fix a certain issue. Yes, it can be simple at times! You just don't care enough to dig deeper and actually find a solution!

I've always found it astonishing how so many privacy breaches are the result of other human beings. I know it can be in our nature to be nosy and even inappropriate. But still, a human being who would never want to have certain important things compromised (like passwords, SSN, etc) is behind this!

In Everything Everywhere All at Once, the main characters experience multiple universes while believing they are being surveilled. It speaks to how, in multiple internet spaces, we are being watched. 'Everything' being watched 'everywhere all at once'

This paragraph perplexed me in multiple ways. First of all, it shows the different internet spaces across which data is mined. But, the fact that data was mined to create a correlation like this just shows how so much data mining can actually end up creating so many narratives in the modern world and in the media. This still may be a less serious example, as the correlation is slightly silly, but in more serious situations it may actually be very serious and threatening.

This article discusses how a comedian made his views on the FBI known with a daring joke. This article confused me. In my opinion, the FBI has a lot of merit to their name, but certain operations, such as those during the civil rights movement, can be seen as controversial. Is this an example for how trolling can be used to make a politcal stance known?

First of all, this is both very interesting and concerning. It's very interesting, the entire process and even the lengths people would go to just to say something negative. Secondly, it's shocking how people create such bots that seem to block positivity whenever they see it. Even anger, just like happiness, is a human emotion, and the fact that it is also being displayed through a bot is very concerning.

It simply just makes me think about how the most powerful figures can lack authenticity in their messaging and communication, even possibly when they are communicating the most random messages, such as Sydney Sweeney ads. Or perhaps that's the only authentic version.

That's so interesting! Messages have always been carried out in society, only the methods change. It makes me think that one day people will see our methods as obsolete and, at least metaphorically, prehistoric.

HTML, a very basic and simple language used for creating websites. In a way, it serves as the foundation for much of the data that gets stored.

For example, for age, on say a social media platform like Instagram, you could have the user type in the number, their exact birth date, maybe even age ranges. Constraints may include, not signing up if you're under a certain age like 13?

This is a subreddit discussing bots. One post fascinated me. A recent forecast told us that 'bot users' may be more than 1000 times higher than human ones. Reddit was a platform where I sometimes felt a human connection through finding subreddits, users, and conversations that I was able to relate to, whether emotionally, physically, or in terms of interests, and now it's a platform mostly full of machines. Also, on a subreddit about bots, most of these users and their post may ironically just be bots!

The fact that platforms can 'provide certain capabilities' and 'limit' rather than banning them altogether really surprises me. To a certain degree, do platforms enjoy having bots take over? People care enough to create bots for your platform, also, sometimes what they can post can generate more engagement.