Re:Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?
by perl4ever on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:01PM
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"They are interacting with a caricature of a person they've built up in their heads based on a highly limited set of information."
I don't think it's reasonable to put the blame on the users. Facebook in particular, creates that caricature in order to increase "engagement".
You will not see a representative sample, much less all, of your friends posts if you use it normally. If two people make one in 20 posts that are outraged, anguished, political, Facebook will probably show them only those of each other, which creates a feedback loop.
People talk about possible future "paperclip maximizer" AIs overwhelming society, but Facebook is essentially doing that right now, only it's "engagement" instead of "paperclips".
I don't think it's reasonable to put the blame on the users. Facebook in particular, creates that caricature in order to increase "engagement".
You will not see a representative sample, much less all, of your friends posts if you use it normally. If two people make one in 20 posts that are outraged, anguished, political, Facebook will probably show them only those of each other, which creates a feedback loop.
People talk about possible future "paperclip maximizer" AIs overwhelming society, but Facebook is essentially doing that right now, only it's "engagement" instead of "paperclips".