With just a tap on an icon, you can access the online public square without leaving your bed in the morning and be informed where people are or what they’ve been up to yesterday.
Want to rant about that neighbor or that relative? You can now conveniently do that online without screaming at them live (who even has time for that now), just by writing a long post that everyone—including the people who doesn’t really have to know about it—can read (perhaps except your neighbor or your family member because you unfriended each other online, or never had online connections in the first place).
If you keep reading these kinds of posts, then the algorithm will serve you more like them, feeding you more information you don’t necessarily need. And now they are at it again?
And who’s deciding what content you should find in your social media feed?
The algorithm would just keep recommending content it thinks you would enjoy—like how I get served with animal videos and my husband with cooking videos. Because it knows a lot of things about you now.
When was the last time you decided to leave the noise of constant connectivity and be alone with yourself, pondering questions you wouldn’t usually ask when your mind is constantly occupied with online content?
jessa 