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 Updated August 18. 2022

Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem

Companies already have the systems in place that are needed to evaluate their deeper impacts on the social fabric.

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• Nathaniel Lubinarchive page
• Thomas Krendl Gilbertarchive page

August 9, 2022

 

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Updated information Aug 1, 2022

Jul 25, 2022 - Technology

Sunset of the social network

• Scott Rosenberg
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• Now Facebook wants to shape your online life around the algorithmically-sorted preferences of millions of strangers around the globe.

• That's how TikTok sorts the videos it shows users, and that's largely how Facebook will now organize its home screen.
• The dominant player in social media is transforming itself into a kind of digital mass media, in which the reactions of hordes of anonymous users, processed by machine learning, drive the selection of your content.
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• What's next: Messaging will continue to grow as the central channel for private, one-to-one and small group communications.

• Meta owns a big chunk of that market, too, thanks to Facebook Messenger and its ownership of WhatsApp.
• At the other end of the media spectrum, the "discovery engines" run by TikTok and Meta will duke it out with streaming services to capture billions of eyeballs around the globe and sell that attention to advertisers.

All this leaves a vacuum in the middle — the space of forums, ad-hoc group formation and small communities that first drove excitement around internet adoption in the pre-Facebook era.

• Facebook's sunseting of its own social network could open a new space for innovation on this turf, where relative newcomers like Discord are already beginning to thrive.

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Twitter now lets you soft-block followers

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