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Re:UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks ha... by pjc50 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:33AM (#14401505)
> product prioritizes sharing a human experience rather than a political article or an opinion

"In the real world, people slow down and look at car crashes. On the internet, they do the same - but it's interpreted by the system as a demand for more car crashes, which the system will then attempt to supply"

- paraphrase of a comment seen on Twitter

Re:UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks ha... by sosuke on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:15AM (#14401912)
I had to look up paraphrase again because I had only ever seen it in the context of taking a larger work and making it smaller whereas your very clear example is larger than the original work. Thanks
Re:UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks ha... by nebabyte on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:15AM (#14401917)
Rather superficial attempt at wit. Anywhere "in the real world" that operates on feedback - which in a corporatized world is many things - also has that "interpretation by the system" - see the MSM as the most obvious example.
Re:UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks ha... by pjc50 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:22AM (#14401989)
Sure, it's a common problem of metric-driven and target-driven systems, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem. If we've built systems that reward outcomes that we find bad .. maybe we should do something about it? Or at least encourage people to be aware of when they're participating in the car crash production system.

Currently going around on my twitter is a reminder not to retweet screenshots of professional troll / Mail "journalist" Katie Hopkins calling for a "final solution" to Islam (in the context of the Manchester bombing). That's the kind of thing I mean: engaging with it at all is just feeding the outrage machine. Report and block instead.