I was just thinking about the recent Black Mirror episode about how easy it is for a hivemind of righteous (or totally false wacko) anger to appear and make vic

I was just thinking about the recent Black Mirror episode about how easy it is for a hivemind of righteous (or totally false wacko) anger to appear and make victims. The way twitter/4chan/facebook work is that it's basically a streaming tube of recency, where content gets pushed through it and everyone is forced to look at the top of the heap, ie the newest memes. If you actually had a graph the size of your network, and the font size of the comments/content your friends' post actually reflect their voice in context of the whole network (e.g. smaller), maybe you'd see it less as a spotlight and more as background noise.