https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18485599/facebook-instagram-passwords-plain-text-millions-users
I think this is the good example for the case that SNS users should give up some privacy. Even though we didn't post that for public the people in SNS company, who is complete stranger, can have access with that.
When we use social media platforms though, we at least partially give up some of our privacy.
I think this is a dilemma for the SNS users. SNS is used for sharing each user's life. However, they also need private space to keep their privacy since it can be dangerous if everyone can access to see my information
Jordan Pearson. Your Friends’ Online Connections Can Reveal Your Sexual Orientation. Vice, September 2014. URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvydky/your-friends-online-connections-can-reveal-your-sexual-orientation (visited on 2023-12-05). [h9] Catherine Stinson. The Dark Past of Algorithms That Associate Appearance and Criminality. American Scientist, January 2021. URL: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-dark-past-of-algorithms-that-associate-appearance-and-criminality (visited on 2023-12-05). [h10] Greg Miller. Researchers are tracking another pandemic, too—of coronavirus misinformation. Science, March 2020. URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-are-tracking-another-epidemic-too-misinformation (visited on 2023-12-05).
This makes me think a lot about data privacy. Not only for sexual orientation, a lot of people have a lot of private information they use at the internet and SNS. And if it can be exposed to connection through internet it can come up with a lot of moral problems.
Social Media platforms use the data they collect on users and infer about users to increase their power and increase their profits. One of the main goals of social media sites is to increase the time users are spending on their social media sites. The more time users spend, the more money the site can get from ads, and also the more power and influence those social media sites have over those users. So social media sites use the data they collect to try and figure out what keeps people using their site, and what can they do to convince those users they need to open it again later. Social media sites then make their money by selling targeted advertising, meaning selling ads to specific groups of people with specific interests. So, for example, if you are selling spider stuffed animal toys, most people might not be interested, but if you could find the people who want those toys and only show your ads to them, your advertising campaign might be successful, and those users might be happy to find out about your stuffed animal toys. But targeting advertising can be used in less ethical ways, such as targeting gambling ads at children, or at users who are addicted to gambling, or the 2016 Trump campaign ‘target[ing] 3.5m black Americans to deter them from voting’ [h17].
This states the addictiveness that social media has. This kinda forms a feed of a SNS user. It can provide user more relative posts with the user's interest. However, it is purposed to pop up more ads and addictiveness.
Trolling / Troll. April 2009. URL: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trolling-troll (visited on 2023-12-05).
It was pretty interesting to know the history of the well known meme "troll." As said in the article korean communities use a lot of "nak-shi" which is pretty like a ragebait.
Trolling is when an Internet user posts inauthentically (often false, upsetting, or strange) with the goal of causing disruption or provoking an emotional reaction. When the goal is provoking an emotional reaction, it is often for a negative emotion, such as anger or emotional pain. When the goal is disruption, it might be attempting to derail a conversation (e.g., concern trolling [g4]), or make a space no longer useful for its original purpose (e.g., joke product reviews), or try to get people to take absurd fake stories seriously [g5].
I think it explains what trolling specifically is. Most of people think that trolling with the goal of provoking emotional reaction like ragebait. However I think these days trolling that causes disruption are getting worse.
lonelygirl15. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1186146298. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lonelygirl15&oldid=1186146298 (visited on 2023-11-24).
I think Lonelygirl15 has a story that relies on this topic. Lonelygirl15 shows how authenticity could be made and broke in SNS by showing the fake which really looks like real
How do you think about the authenticity of the Tweets that come from Trump himself? Do you think it matters which human typed the Tweet? Does the emotional expression (e.g., anger) of the Tweet change your view of authenticity? How do you think about the authenticity of the Tweets that come from others in Trump’s campaign?
It was interesting to see the direct tweet of the president in the SNS platform. For me, SNS platforms are like more casual and informal. However it was pretty interesting and good to see the direct thoughts of the president on those platforms.
Mark R. Cheathem. Conspiracy Theories Abounded in 19th-Century American Politics. URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/conspiracy-theories-abounded-19th-century-american-politics-180971940/ (visited on 2023-11-24).
This article points that conspiracy theories were very common in 19th century American politics. It was around when modern political parties began to form. It was pretty interesting because this article emphasizes that conspiracy rhetoric intensified political divisions and damaged public trust.
One difference you may notice with different social media sites is in how you form connections with others. Some social media sites don’t have any formal connections. Like two users who happen to be on the same bulletin board. Some social media sites only allow reciprocal connections, like being “friends” on Facebook Some social media sites offer one-way connections, like following someone on Twitter or subscribing to a YouTube channel. There are, of course, many variations and nuances besides what we mentioned above, but we wanted to get you started thinking about some different options.
It was pretty interesting to think about the connection types in social media platforms. I think it mostly decides the characteristic of each SNS platforms. SNS that allows reciprocal connections is considered more private and focused on functions like messenger(like Facebook). However, SNS with one-way connections feels like to be more public just like Youtube.
What data types might be used to represent that data on a computer?
SNS platforms like X have most of the posts in a form of sentences. Therefore, string will be used for represent most of the posts.
Shannon Bond. Elon Musk wants out of the Twitter deal. It could end up costing at least $1 billion. NPR, July 2022. URL: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110539504/twitter-elon-musk-deal-jeopardy (visited on 2023-11-24).
This article was very interesting because Elon Musk's conflict with Twitter was very viral. Fake accounts are common problems for many SNS platforms and he might be charged for a $1 billion breakup fee was pretty interesting.
Buy TikTok Followers. 2023. URL: https://www.socialwick.com (visited on 2023-12-02).
This website allows users to buy a lot of followers for their SNS accounts which was very interesting. Even though most of the followers the user can buy are bots, the power and influence that SNS account with huge amount of followers is very big. The posts and ideas that those accounts can be shown for more accounts and can be considered more reliable.
Bots might have significant limits on how helpful they are, such as tech support bots you might have had frustrating experiences with on various websites.
I agree with this statement after I have used a lot of applications using chatbot. I think a lot of companies are using chatbots to replace customer support service and I never had a satisfying experience using chatbot since it couldn't understand what my problem was.
What do you think is the responsibility of tech workers to think through the ethical implications of what they are making?
I believe that tech workers should take their responsibility for their technology by adding mechanisms to prevent the use for potential abuse or stating the possible penalties when the abusive use has detected.
Confucianism# Sources [b13] [b14] [b15] [b16] Being and becoming an exemplary person (e.g., benevolent; sincere; honoring and sacrificing to ancestors; respectful to parents, elders and authorities, taking care of children and the young; generous to family and others). These traits are often performed and achieved through ceremonies and rituals (including sacrificing to ancestors, music, and tea drinking), resulting in a harmonious society.
Confucianism emphasizes the importance of individual moral values, and suggests that practicing them can lead to a harmonious society. While it is true that ethics are a pivotal value in forming a harmonious society, Confucianism has limitations in terms of feasibility. Since it is based on faith in people's morality, it lacks effective sanctions when individuals choose not to follow ethical principles. Confucianism considers law-based ethics to be superficial. Regardless of that the law remains one of the most efficient ways to maintain ethical behavior in real society.