Food for thought.

[Fun With Matches]

I wanted to start a thread for some serious discussion about the following article and felt it deserved one.  What do you think?    or not!     I just ask that personal jabs be kept to a minimum......if possible! 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/embark-essay-aggression-internet-twitter-human-nature/

The main thing that they leave out of this article is how the social media giants use algorithms to actually encourage bad behavior and nastiness.

Twitter early on discovered that the #1 re-tweeted emotion is anger/outrage so they tweaked the software to encourage that.

Facebook does similar things. Social media is cancer IMO.

I don’t understand how they can be so irresponsible. I mean gang violence is triggered by it. Not meaning to sound like I’m on my moral high horse, and I feel like I’m stating the obvious, but I don’t understand how these social media giants can live with themselves knowing what little action they take badly affects some people. It is a responsibility to own such sites as Facebook. 

[Yuri Bezmenov]

I wanted to start a thread for some serious discussion about the following article and felt it deserved one.  What do you think?    or not!     I just ask that personal jabs be kept to a minimum......if possible! 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/embark-essay-aggression-internet-twitter-human-nature/

The main thing that they leave out of this article is how the social media giants use algorithms to actually encourage bad behavior and nastiness.

Twitter early on discovered that the #1 re-tweeted emotion is anger/outrage so they tweaked the software to encourage that.

Facebook does similar things. Social media is cancer IMO.

I don’t understand how they can be so irresponsible. I mean gang violence is triggered by it. Not meaning to sound like I’m on my moral high horse, and I feel like I’m stating the obvious, but I don’t understand how these social media giants can live with themselves knowing what little action they take badly affects some people. It is a responsibility to own such sites as Facebook. 

Money talks and bullshit walks.

[jedicounsellor]

I wanted to start a thread for some serious discussion about the following article and felt it deserved one.  What do you think?    or not!     I just ask that personal jabs be kept to a minimum......if possible! 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/embark-essay-aggression-internet-twitter-human-nature/

The main thing that they leave out of this article is how the social media giants use algorithms to actually encourage bad behavior and nastiness.

Twitter early on discovered that the #1 re-tweeted emotion is anger/outrage so they tweaked the software to encourage that.

Facebook does similar things. Social media is cancer IMO.

I don’t understand how they can be so irresponsible. I mean gang violence is triggered by it. Not meaning to sound like I’m on my moral high horse, and I feel like I’m stating the obvious, but I don’t understand how these social media giants can live with themselves knowing what little action they take badly affects some people. It is a responsibility to own such sites as Facebook. 

Facebook jail is real