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Facebook is broken | TechCrunch
Curated:
05/06/2017 from
techcrunch.com/2017/06/04/when-you-look-into-the-news-feed-the-news-feed-looks-into-you/
my notes ( ? )
The more you engage with a particular kind of post, the more you will see its ilk... eventually constructs a small “in-group” cluster of Facebook friends and topics that dominate your feed... causes your behavior to change... reinforcing their in-group status… ...
because “engagement” is the metric, Facebook inevitably selects for the shocking and the outrageous...
“if it bleeds, it leads.” ‘Fake news’ is far from new; it’s just become explicit rather than implicit.... political polarization is more extreme in older people, who use social media less... far more complicated than just “Facebook is driving us apart.”... But it now seems fairly clear that engagement is negatively correlated with happiness for users...
The analogy I like to use is global warming causing extreme weather: the more energy pumped into our atmosphere, the more it behaves in bizarre and erratic ways. Facebook is like a powerful greenhouse gas for our collective social atmosphere.
because “engagement” is the metric, Facebook inevitably selects for the shocking and the outrageous...
“if it bleeds, it leads.” ‘Fake news’ is far from new; it’s just become explicit rather than implicit.... political polarization is more extreme in older people, who use social media less... far more complicated than just “Facebook is driving us apart.”... But it now seems fairly clear that engagement is negatively correlated with happiness for users...
The analogy I like to use is global warming causing extreme weather: the more energy pumped into our atmosphere, the more it behaves in bizarre and erratic ways. Facebook is like a powerful greenhouse gas for our collective social atmosphere.
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