Engineering through social media

[legatoblues]

Can anyone tell me if there is any proof / writeups / article on this?

Earlier today whilst at work, a video appeared in my facebook feed, mentioning something about white privilege. It was a long video that I didn't have time to watch due to being at work, but was most certainly interested enough in to want to watch later.

Well, later has now come and good luck finding said video. I've been scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and it's nowhere to be found, whilst I come across constant repeats of stuff I've been seeing for days.

I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm not a loyal member of any side or viewpoint, but I do like to have access to all opinions and stories, regardless of their source.

Am I imagining things and it's reasonable for someone to say that said video disappeared off the face of the earth? Or are the algorithms that determine what I see and don't see playing against me here?

And part two, does any of it matter? If our social media overlords are private companies with the ability to use our / their information as they see fit (not an American, I don't understand how this works exactly), does that mean that they're free to decide what we do and don't see when browsing webpages that they own?

 

[Johnson]

They probably deleted the post. That, or the reptilian-phile-zionist-liberals are controlling the media and brainwashing you again. Just go with the reptile one.

 

[legatoblues]

They probably deleted the post. That, or the reptilian-phile-zionist-liberals are controlling the media and brainwashing you again. Just go with the reptile one.

Reptiles. Reptiles are nice.

 

[uppercutbus]

To leftists social media is only influential when it's an opinion they don't like. Otherwise what they want to hear is unbiased and fact based (More than two genders! Nazis! Nazis everywhere. Let them in because Crusades. [insert Nancy Pelosi quote]). This logic is how they ignore any claims that Hollywood and the mainstream media is not highly left biased and brush it off as a conspiracy theory.

Look at how they rage at Alex Jones / Joe Rogan / Shapiro etc. Claiming they are dangerous etc. lol.

 

[redwire]

Jim Carrey says you should delete Facebook and dump the stock.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/com...your-facebook-account-and-dump-the-stock.html

I'm with Ace Ventura on this one.

 

[sub_thug]

Jim Carrey says you should delete Facebook and dump the stock.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/com...your-facebook-account-and-dump-the-stock.html

I'm with Ace Ventura on this one.

I'm all for people deleting their FB accounts and unplugging from social media as a whole, but I don't agree with him on selling off the stock. While it seems as though their daily active users is about plateauing (you can't have more than everyone use their service, and they are about at that point), they haven't raised their ad prices. Ads are how the company makes money, and they can easily make a lot more of it through increasing those ad prices. That, of course, does not account for other ventures that they might have. Since the company is valued at over $500B, they will have plenty of capital to plug into other ventures to increase the longevity of the company well-past the retirement of Mark Zuckerburg. Hold the stock, even if you don't like the product.

 

[panamaican]

Given everything in the news today, it's likely that it was flagged for some reason and removed.

As for social media companies removing content - yes, they're free to control what you do and don't see on their web pages. And you should never forget it. They sell your demographic information to advertisers who will fill your media feeds with the precise type of messages and images that will hopefully influence everything you do.

And the advertisers are exceptionally subtle about it. Think about what happened in print media where advertisers were disguising advertisements as print articles. People didn't realize that the article they were reading about some random subject was actually a multi-page ad designed to get them to think about place or product differently.

So trust none of what "randomly" pops up in your social media feed. And don't trust 90% of the shit your friends are reposting because they probably aren't paying attention to any of this either.

 

[bobgeese]

Can anyone tell me if there is any proof / writeups / article on this?

Earlier today whilst at work, a video appeared in my facebook feed, mentioning something about white privilege. It was a long video that I didn't have time to watch due to being at work, but was most certainly interested enough in to want to watch later.

Well, later has now come and good luck finding said video. I've been scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and it's nowhere to be found, whilst I come across constant repeats of stuff I've been seeing for days.

I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm not a loyal member of any side or viewpoint, but I do like to have access to all opinions and stories, regardless of their source.

Am I imagining things and it's reasonable for someone to say that said video disappeared off the face of the earth? Or are the algorithms that determine what I see and don't see playing against me here?

And part two, does any of it matter? If our social media overlords are private companies with the ability to use our / their information as they see fit (not an American, I don't understand how this works exactly), does that mean that they're free to decide what we do and don't see when browsing webpages that they own?

Congratulations, you just discovered propaganda...

 

[Satsui Ryu]

I haven't seen anything specific on social media, but there are papers out there on how the internet has allowed people to filter only the information they want to hear through news outlets and user generated echo chambers. It is basically pushing people to extremes. I find user generated information sources like Reddit to be way worse than FB as it really pushes people to the extremes.