I think, especially with kids/teens on social media, data mining through specific chats or dms could be catastrophic for those people, because of the uprise in joking about serious issues that could get you in a lot of trouble if say someone read your dms on instagram. So I think dms should stay private, and I think personalization based data mining is the way to go.

I know for a fact google knows all the info about me, gender age shopping preferences ect., but since I am under 18 it claims to not store that information. That is something that I find hard to believe, given that I do experience targeting ads and marketing on my google account. I am not really comfortable nor uncomfortable about them storing information about me, anyway, because most sites do it anyway.

This type of trolling is hard to sort into a category of productive or counterproductive. It’s conditional, as trolling the police is sometimes called for but most of the time just makes it harder for them to do their jobs. Like in this instance, they were trying to keep protests safe and legal and they ended up with a slurry of k-pop videos.

Dealing with trolls is something that can go from being as simple as blocking them on everything and putting down the phone for a few days/ not interacting. But anyone who’s experienced more intentional and harassment based trolling knows they won’t give up after that amount of time, which is when you threaten them with the police and or actually file a police report.

I think parasocial relationships are a lot more hidden in the darker corners of the Internet than people think. and the uprise of mental illness from social media definitely has a compound effect for the mental health of consumers of media that may induce parasocial relationships.

I Think authenticity is something that Mr. Trump hasn’t thought about in years, or at least if he has then not substantively. Social media is not known for its authenticity, and President Trump uses this as a shield to deflect and cause apprise to issues that he can use to pull focus away from his schemes.