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Agreed with a third addition: limits to how much content can be shared. The constant encouragement to share / retweet / recycle any content does not help. If p
by Closi 6y ago
Agreed with a third addition: limits to how much content can be shared.
The constant encouragement to share / retweet / recycle any content does not help. If people only posted their own unique content, and only people they were directly friends with could see it, half the battle would be solved.
Instead if my aunt ‘likes’ a post that one of her own friends ‘shared’ then suddenly it’s in my feed. Screw that, I don’t need to see it. This stuff isn’t viral because it’s good content, it’s mostly viral because facebook is designed to encourage ‘virality’ to increase the amount of new content you see to make you revisit the app.
Censorship is not the answer, but legislation is required to cut down on the incentive these companies have to design their apps to spread crap and make things viral.
- skohan 6y agoYes exactly - and I think it's compounded by the somewhat greedy approach that these organizations take in terms of trying to manage content delivery with the least amount of human hands possible in deciding what you should see. This kind of blind algorithmic delivery is what led to this really strange, anti-social content appearing on "children's" youtube a few years ago. These platforms are literally designed to command your attention as much as possible. We have a history of regulating things which are unreasonably effective at hijacking the human reward system - like gambling, and narcotics. Sometimes I feel like we're an equivalent period to when you could buy cocaine or heroin over the counter at the chemist because society hasn't yet recognized the cost of failing to put some controls on it yet.