Social media has introduced profound changes to the way our society functions. Its not a bad or a good change: there are both good and bad aspects to it. Democ

Social media has introduced profound changes to the way our society functions. Its not a bad or a good change: there are both good and bad aspects to it. Democratization of media means that suppressed voices and talent can still rise and break through, and that's a good thing. On the other hand, it also means that the worst of humanity (even if a minority) can also break through - traditional media's filters were not always a bad thing. The main problem are that recommendation systems are a black box. They should have interfaces for interaction. They should allow user chosen curators (e.g. parental filter companies) to tweak their parameters, add filters or over-ride recommendation choices. As I mentioned somewhere downstream, we can't have black boxes shoving things we don't want into our screens anymore. We need something better.