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As always, it's a bad time to be an imaginary person. It's a big leap to pretend the model reflects the real world, let alone today's real world. As far as I c
by BarryMilo 5y ago
As always, it's a bad time to be an imaginary person.
It's a big leap to pretend the model reflects the real world, let alone today's real world. As far as I can tell, sharing has become largely fenced into communities (reddit subs, Facebook groups). People who still share with people they know personally appear to me to be a minority.
Don't get me wrong, the principle is sound, but the world changes fast and the described model doesn't seem very relevant nowadays.
- swivelmaster 5y agoMy experience watching my older family members share memes on Facebook suggests otherwise. Also, the entirety of Twitter, in a completely different way.
- arglebarglegar 5y agofacebook has billions of monthly users, there’s no way you interact with even 1% of that, so anecdotal feelings are completely meaningless!
- rossdavidh 5y agoWell, it's simpler than the real phenomenon it is simulating, but the fact that even that simplified model gives the same result we see in reality, is itself quite significant. It suggests that it is not some quirk of FB algorithm that is the issue, it's the very essence of what a general purpose social network IS, that's the issue. It suggests that tweaking the algorithm is unlikely to solve the problem.
- herbst 5y agoAs contrast in my social circle nearly everything is spoken / shared in private messenger groups today. From my POV this is the current trend. Then again my environment is mostly online privacy aware.