Social media is giving us trypophobia

Social media is giving us trypophobia

Well this is something to think about, After reading this I'm not sure if it giving it to us but it certainly seems to be a breeding ground.

In no particular order, I found these quotes particularly poignant. I'm surprised there are not more comments. It is a long read for short attentions spans.

"In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion-fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles."

"This week the UK prime minister, Theresa May, used a Davos podium World Economic Forum speech to slam social media platforms for failing to operate with a social conscience."

"Zuckerberg himself said as much a year ago, as the scale of the existential crisis facing his company was beginning to become clear. “It’s worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text, photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech, graphic violence, sexually explicit content, and more,” he wrote then. “At our current pace of research, we hope to begin handling some of these cases in 2017, but others will not be possible for many years"

If the algorithms were transparent, then at least people would be (or could choose to be) aware of how what they were seeing was being filtered. A more interesting take would be for people to add filtering options themselves. If people had control over what filters were applied to their content, and reminders that they had put these filters in place, then they could not hide behind a veil of ignorance. That would be better than living behind the veil that's been put over them without their knowledge.