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Social Media, World's Greatest Failure?

Performing multiple tasks simultaneously has enhanced ordinary ideas in our lives. It’s a wonder using what we accomplish all. We depend on our smartphones for work, school, and our individual and friendly lives.  When was the last opportunity you abandoned home outside your telephone and observed ongoing? The computer network has enhanced a meaningful part of our day-to-day lives.  So excessively has public television. And it is bearing an effect on today’s teenagers.

Social Media Usage ...

In 2005, when public publishing was still in allure infancy, only about 5 portions of consumers in the United States of America were complicated by social publishing. In 2019, that number evolved to about 70 allotments. Long-backed bench Research Center scrutinized friendly radio habits and popularity among US persons early in 2019. The survey establishes that while the ultimate-used public floors for women are YouTube and Facebook; teenagers prefer Snapchat and Instagram, while TikTok is reportedly the fastest-increasing public network among more immature users. Public television use is almost entirely among today’s teens. Stall Testing place reports 97 portion of 13- to 17-old age-olds use at least individual of seven more significantly connected to the internet principles. The amount of time gone on friendly sites is fantastic. The individual report indicates the average teenager ages 13 to 18 spends about nine hours on public publishing each epoch; tweens ages 8 to 12 are on for about six hours for a moment of truth. Like most belongings, utilizing public media has the allure of a still picture taken with a camera the good, the charm of giving warning tales the distressing, and emergencies the disagreeable that hide and impact the lives of many, but especially teenagers.

Why is Social Media Good ...

Friendly news and technology offer us better availability and connectivity: stopping belonging to family and companions general via electronic mail, theme, FaceTime, etc. quick approach to news and research investment and bill pay at our fingertips online knowledge, task skills, content finding YouTube connection in civic date fundraising, social awareness, supports a voice excellent marketing finished space for detached employmentFriendly television can be an advantage, but if teenagers ever feel harsh about the entity they see or state on friendly, they endure trust their own feelings and warn dignitary – a parent, an educator, or another trustworthy adult. Bullying, dangers, and brutality on social publishing are all signs that the man doing those belongings needs help.

Why is Social Media Bad ...

In addition to the good comes the distressing. With all of its allure benefits, the character of friendly publishing presents a range of potential issues. Online vs the Real world. Friendly radio itself is not the question. It is the way folk uses it alternatively real ideas and in-person entertainment. “Companions” on public news may for all practical purposes help, and can even be guests. Increased habit. The more opportunity gone on public media can bring about cyberbullying, public worry, despair, and exposure to content that is to say not age-appropriate. Public Radio is preparing. When you’re playing a game or carrying out a task, you inquire about the commotion in addition you can. Once you assume, your intelligence will present you with a lot of dopamine and other satisfaction hormones, making you satisfied. The like machine functions when you post a picture to Instagram or Facebook. Once you visualize all the announcements for enjoyment and definite comments popping up on your screen, you’ll subconsciously register it as a reward. 

But that’s not all, friendly news is entirely of desire-modifying happenings. Fear of Gone Out. FOMO has enhanced a common idea and frequently leads to constant inspecting of social television sites. The plan that you ability miss on something if you’re not connected to the internet can influence your insane fitness. Self-image issues. Friendly news sites support forms that allow the community to reap the remainder of something’s authorization for their appearance and the chance to equate themselves to possible choices. It may be associated with crowd figure concerns. The “selfieholics” and population the that spend most of their opportunity entering and curling around are the ones most vulnerable to this. Really, learning adolescents the one uses Facebook for at least five opportunities for a moment of truth are inclined to link their self-esteem to their looks. That doesn’t mean that the main problem is friendly radio; it only determines a medium for it, that further elevates the question. It again advances the alike sort of presence to the remainder of something.

Bullying & Suicide ...

Unhappily, being skilled is a disagreeable side to all that science offers. While domineering is not a new idea, friendly media and science have led domineering to a new level. It enhances a more constant, chronic warning of cyberbullying. United States of America of Rhode Reef anti-domineering societies & requirements delimit bullying and cyberbullying in this manner: “Domineering” method the use by the individual or more juniors of a written, spoken or photoelectric verbalization or a material act or gesture or some merger thereof supervised at a junior that: causes physical or passionate harm to the pupil or damage to the undergraduate's possessions places the student in justifiable fear of harm to himself/herself or of damage to welcome/her feature forges a threatening, threatening, antagonistic, or offensive instructional atmosphere for the student infringes on the rights of the graduate to take part in school exercises.

Substantially and substantially disrupts the instruction process or the well-behaved movement of a school “Cyberbullying” method bullying through the use of science or some scientists studying brain function to design analogous mechanical systems, that shall involve, but not be restricted to, some transfer of signs, signals, book, figures, sounds, data, texting or knowledge of some type sent in whole or in part by a thread, wireless, electromagnetic, photograph photoelectric or photo ocular order, containing, but not restricted to, electronic mail, WWW publicity, instant ideas or reproduction communications. Unhappily, the cons of friendly publishing can take a toll on young minds. Self-murder remnants are among the chief causes of the end of life of adolescents under age 14.  In private cases, young families dwindle from dangling. Self-murder rates among 10- to 14-old age-olds have matured in addition to 50 portions over the last three decades, by the American Union of Suicidology. Self-murder rates in children middle from two points the ages of 10 and 14 are very depressed but are dragging up, by the American Base for Self-murder Stop.

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What I learned...

The use of birds as messengers has been established thousands of years ago.  The ancient city of Rome used homing pigeons to let people know the winner of the Ancient Olympics. They would paint the bird the color of the team that the winner belonged to.  These birds were critical in wars like the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Civil War. and even World War I.  The idea of carrier pigeons came from pigeons' innate instinct to return home, no matter the conditions or distance traveled. They possess "compass sense" and "map sense." These senses made them the perfect messengers. Egypt also used carrier pigeons carriers in 3000 BC.  Historically these birds only flew one way. But. people began to put their food at one location and their homes at another.  Historically. the first noted example of this is when Noah sent a dove to go check and see if it was dry enough to emerge from the ark. And the dove brought back a branch as a sign of life after the Flood. In WWI. the presiding officers sent carrier pigeons between Bluefields to check on each battle's status and send messages based on the present circumstances of the battle.

The Overton window of political possibility is the range of ideas the public is willing to consider and accept  Model for understanding how ideas in society change over time and influence politics  Created by Joseph Overton in the mid-1990s who was senior V.P. of Mackinac Center for Public Policy Politicians are limited in what policy ideas they can support generally, only pursue policies that are widely accepted throughout society as legitimate policy options (policies that lie inside the Overton Window) politicians risk losing popular support if they champion other ideas that lie outside the Overton Window Politicians can move the Overton Window by endorsing a policy lying outside the window, but this is rare More often, the window moves based on the slow evolution of societal values and norms If politicians must locate the window, think tanks and social movements must shift it; must convince voters that policies outside the window should be in it In the United States, the idea of: Different races mixing in public, Gay marriage, and women's suffrage were once considered extreme policies. The fact that they're now deemed common sense, reflects progress in shifting the Overton window.

Diffusion of Innovations

The theory of the diffusion of innovations holds that new technological and other advancements spread throughout societies and cultures from their introduction to widespread adoption. The diffusion of innovations theory tries to explain how and why new ideas and practices are adopted over long periods. How innovations are communicated to various segments of society and the subjective opinions associated with the innovations both have a significant impact on how quickly they spread. It is essential to comprehend this theory when expanding market share because it is frequently used in product marketing. E.M. Rogers, a communication theorist at the University of New Mexico, developed the theory in 1962. To explain the stages of idea adoption by various actors, it incorporates previous sociological theories of behavioral change. The primary individuals, according to the theory of innovation diffusion, are:

- Innovators: people who are the first to try new ideas and are willing to take risks.

- Early Adopters: are individuals who wish to test cutting-edge technologies in order to evaluate their impact on society.

- Early Majority: members of the general public who set the standard for how innovation is used in mainstream society.

- Late Majority: People who adhere to the early majority and incorporate innovation into their daily lives make up another segment of the general population.

- Laggards: individuals who adopt novel products and ideas later than most people. This is primarily due to their fixed perspective and fear of risk. If innovation is not encouraged, mainstream society will eventually lose its ability to function normally. They are compelled to use it as a result.

The application of the diffusion theory results in the success of numerous campaigns and goods. The iPhone and Apple are one of the most straightforward and effective applications of this theory. Because it was so innovative and cutting-edge, the Apple team had no idea that the iPhone would one day alter history. The iPhone's widespread adoption can be broken down using the five-step adoption model and diffusion theory adopter categories. Because they were among the first to adopt this revolutionary new smartphone concept, the designers of the iPhone were innovators. These are the people who set up camp outside the Apple store whenever a new version is released. The early majority eventually purchased an iPhone after hearing about it from peers and influential members of their social groups. As a result, they became role models for the majority of the latecomers, encouraging them to buy smartphones because they are essential to maintaining social status. Everyone who ultimately decided to buy an iPhone followed the five-step adoption process. They had to learn about the product, decide if they were interested or convinced to try it, try it out at the Apple Store, and decide if they wanted to buy an iPhone or keep their current phone.

Privacy Online & Off

Crump discusses the evolution of automatic license plate readers into a dominant mass-market location tracking technology in his presentation. While positioned near roads or on police vehicles, readers take photographs of passing license plates. "If license plate readers were simply used to find the bad guys, no one would object," Crump stated. However, police are increasingly collecting this data from every vehicle that passes through a plate reader in a dragnet and storing it indefinitely, resulting in truly massive databases that track the locations of a significant portion of the public in the United States. 

Numerous tracking technologies, including license plate readers, are utilized by modern law enforcement. Through data dumps from cell towers, agents can identify revealing location information about thousands of people. Another illustration comes from stingrays, which are devices that enable law enforcement to transmit signals through the walls of homes to ascertain whether or not any cell phones are present. Crump stated, "The state has been able to learn far too much about what happens behind closed doors." Additionally, law enforcement uses this information to confirm your identity. 

Police departments can inexpensively compile this data into massive databases. A National License Plate Reader System is being developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to reports. Devices from a variety of national jurisdictions will feed this system's database. Crump demonstrated the negative effects of this kind of surveillance in his talk. Unmarked police cars equipped with license plate readers have driven around nearby mosques to monitor each visitor to New York. An 80-year-old retired person's license plate number was on a watch list after I sketched the protesters at political demonstrations in Great Britain. He discovered a slew of photos in the San Leandro, California, police records for Mike Katz Lacabe's license plate, some of which showed him and his two daughters getting out of their car in the driveway. "Mr. Katz-Lacabe has not been accused of any crime," Crump stated. However, hundreds of images of his vehicles are kept by the government. How come this is accepted? 

When Crump granted law enforcement such extensive surveillance authority, he warned of the tremendous potential for abuse. She advocated for more checks and balances to lessen the impact of tracking technologies. "Experience would indicate that the question is not whether such data will be misused, but when," Crump said, referring specifically to voyeurism, extortion, or political gain." The opposite is true rather, the question is when. The right to privacy of a person extends beyond the control they have over their personal information. The increasingly skewed power balance between the state and civil society must be corrected.

A.I.

When a DeepMind computer program defeated the world champion in the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go, which has more possible moves than atoms in the universe, the Chinese government experienced what has been dubbed the Sputnik moment. Will be remembered as the pivotal moment when AI became mature and everyone jumped on the bandwagon, declares Kai-Fu Lee, a prominent Chinese AI researcher, and venture capitalist. After that Go game, China's President Xi Jinping established objectives for the country to catch up to the United States in artificial intelligence by 2025 and take the lead in the world by 2030.

Shawn Cumbee and his wife Hope, Beaverton, Michigan, independent truck drivers, are certain that automation will not be able to replace them. Shawn contends that individuals continue to commit errors and invent new ones. I have no concerns. However, Hope takes a moment to consider her options when she discovers that Embark trucks are already delivering cargo on Interstate 10:Thanks to artificial intelligence, computers can now learn to drive, do accounting, scan legal documents, pack grocery bins, and do a wide range of other things for both white-collar and blue-collar workers. In addition, it explains that artificial intelligence is a type of automation and that automation has eliminated more jobs than offshore plants over the past four decades. Concerns are raised because AI may now significantly accelerate that trend.

In the next fifteen years, fifty percent of jobs will be in some way threatened by AI, according to Kai-Fu Lee, the author of AI Superpowers. He worries that the rise of AI will exacerbate another alarming trend: the widening gap between wages. Kai-Fu Lee warns that AI will worsen the situation and, in her opinion, divide society because the wealthy will likely have too much while the poor will likely have few options for escape. The film is concerned about how personal lives are being invaded by artificial intelligence and how privacy is being violated in China and the United States. A few pilot projects are using AI to give people a social credit score, and AI is used to recognize faces in many Chinese cameras. This score is used by the government to reward some people for what it considers to be good citizenship and punish others for other things. Dissident scholar Xiao Qiang asserts that China is establishing a nationwide surveillance state.

The demonstration project is located in the province of Xinjiang, where AI is being used against Muslims in a campaign that has alarmed human rights groups. China claims that more than a million ethnic Uighur people have been sent to so-called re-education camps and that technology is being used to identify potential terrorists. China, on the other hand, is exporting its technology and authoritarian methods worldwide while simultaneously constructing a bamboo curtain that includes shared infrastructure, the internet, and 5G digital systems. One of the things I worry about the most is that the world is going to split in two and that there will be a Chinese tech sector and an American tech sector, says Nicholas Thompson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine.

Also, nations will effectively be able to choose their preferred option. You will have to decide whether to join the United States or the Soviet Union, just like you did during the Cold War. Nobody finds that kind of world appealing. According to The Age of AI, American AI algorithms also collect data to sell our personal information to advertisers. Despite being less well-known, this kind of corporate surveillance is common. We pretended to use social media when we first entered this unfamiliar world. Shoshana Zuboff, a professor at Harvard, claims, We behaved as if we were researching Google. We didn't know social media was using us. We had no idea that Google was trying to find us.

Zuboff, the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, warns that third parties can target and manipulate voters in elections by using data from companies like Google, Facebook, and others. Additionally, this puts an end to our online digital exhaustion. She asserts that Cambridge Analytica focused on political outcomes rather than advertisements precisely in this manner. Despite their promise for society and the future, a pioneer in AI Yoshua Bengio is concerned that his deep learning algorithms may also be risky: AIs are the instruments. The people in charge will benefit from using those instruments. He asserts that if those interests clash with democratic principles, democracy will suffer. A gripping look at some of the ways this brand-new technology has already altered and will continue to alter our world is provided in The Age of AI.

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Confirmation Bias

Consider a time when you attempted to contact a friend with whom you disagree and left messages but never received a response. In this situation, it's easy to tell right away that your friend is avoiding you. Naturally, if you do not investigate this belief, you run the risk of acting as though it were true. When desires directly influence beliefs, confirmation bias occurs. People end up believing something because they want it to be true. They gain energy by getting what they want. When the evidence that has been gathered thus far supports the views or prejudices that the individual would like to be true, this error causes the individual to stop collecting information. 

We disregard or reject information that challenges our views once we have formed them and accept information that supports them. The idea that we don't see things objectively is known as confirmation bias. Because they support our preconceived notions, we decide to concentrate on the data points that make us happy. We run the risk of giving in to our preconceived notions as a result. For instance, there will always be some people who have a strong tendency to dismiss any claims that marijuana may cause harm as nothing more than old-fashioned reefer mania. These people will do this regardless of the evidence. Despite the evidence, these individuals will act accordingly. These individuals will carry it out despite the evidence. The evidence will guide these individuals' actions. These individuals will carry it out despite the evidence. The evidence will be utilized by these individuals. Any evidence that marijuana does not harm people will be ignored by some social conservatives.

Examples of Confirmation Bias

Politics,

In politics, which is naturally divided, changing voting patterns is notoriously difficult. For instance, states in the United States are typically referred to as Red or Blue based on whether Democrats or Republicans control them. The majority of states remain that way for many years. Continually, the majority of individuals support political causes. Even though some swing voters are more open to new candidates, they will always vote one way. However, confirmation bias means that they are in the minority. Confirmation bias is evident in what people watch. For instance, Republican voters typically support right-leaning media outlets like CNN and Fox News. CNN's opposing viewpoints are naturally rejected because they don't fit with the beliefs that are already held. For the same reasons, Democrats frequently prefer CNN. Politicians also exhibit confirmation bias. As a result of confirmation bias, they rarely deviate from their positions. Over one hundred members of Congress, for instance, have rejected the idea that humans are to blame for climate change. The majority of new evidence is immediately rejected because it contradicts existing beliefs, the evidence. Rent control, for instance, is yet another sphere of politics. Even though most economists agree that they are bad, which is remarkable in and of itself, many politicians on the left think that they work.

Eyewitness Accounts,

In the criminal justice system, eyewitness accounts are beginning to be replaced by DNA and other more precise forms of evidence. Consequently, DNA evidence vindicates numerous wrongfully convicted individuals. Eye accounts are frequently regarded as difficult. We rarely recall specific details and are susceptible to being influenced by a variety of factors. One of them is confirmation bias. For instance, witnesses to homicides may be able to identify the offender through observation. Problems arise because the perpetrator and the witness are siblings. The witness, on the other hand, has no idea how their brother or sister could have acted in such a way. They don't like the idea because they think they won't be able to. It cannot be true. Despite the rejection of new information, the existing belief is maintained.

Religion,

Religious people will be biased in favor of the beliefs they already hold. Unexpected events constitute a miracle. On the other hand, a disaster is just a test of faith. Both want to back up a belief that already exists. There are, on the other hand, individuals who practice no religion at all. A marvel does not demonstrate a higher power; rather, it is simply regarded as a one-of-a-kind event. In a similar vein, catastrophes that result in the deaths of thousands of people, such as hurricanes and tsunamis, are viewed as evidence that there is no God. Believers and nonbelievers alike frequently use events as justifications for existing beliefs. Regardless of whether the events in question are positive or negative, they adopt a position that is in line with these beliefs.

Social Media,

Fake news has spread rapidly thanks to social media. Information and news articles that reinforce preexisting beliefs are shared by a lot of people. To grab readers' attention, catchy headlines frequently make unsubstantiated claims. Even though some news articles claim to include facts, they only present biased viewpoints that align with the reader's own. In turn, claims that do not match what people already believe are referred to as factual because they lack evidence to support them. As a result, such news spreads across platforms and gains traction as millions of people's preexisting beliefs are confirmed.

Positives and Negatives of Confirmation Bias

Positives,

You've probably encountered this phenomenon if you've ever attempted to persuade a Mac user to try a PC or a PC user to switch to a Mac. Confirmation bias is the idea that once people start to identify with a brand, they will never be able to switch brands. What is taking place? It's because they associate a part of themselves or the person they aspire to be with the said brand. Marketing to their ideal selves, regardless of the dissonance that occurs between their actions and beliefs, can help cement that connection if a person identifies as an outdoorsy person and purchases shoes, jackets, and backpacks from REI. Even if the individual has never kayaked or hiked before, this holds. By explaining to potential customers the problems they are experiencing and the solutions we offer, we can lessen both of these aspects of marketing that are referred to as confirmation bias. On the other hand, there are aspects of confirmation bias in marketing that we ought to be aware of in the work that we do every day.

Negatives,

The most recent Netflix documentary, The Great Hack, claims that social media marketing's confirmation bias played a significant role in the 2016 election. Using psychological profiles that people had created using a lot of data from social media, Cambridge Analytica grouped people based on their beliefs and demographics and showed them ads that made people think better of other people. The objective was to create an echo chamber on social media that reflected individuals preexisting prejudices against opposers. The strategy used confirmation bias to further divide the two sides. In addition to being aware of their tendencies to seek predictable feedback, advertisers need to consider the moral implications of employing this strategy as a deterrent. The only way to deal with confirmation bias is to explicitly acknowledge its existence because it is ingrained in all of us.

Today's News Bias/Covering-Up

The U.S. media has gone under exceptional examination, with educated authorities, regulators, and even scientists themselves faulting it for its propensity and acting of having assaulted us in its thought about the force of political race. Educated people across the political reach have said that fake news and cyberattacks expected a basic part in picking the course of events. The transcendent reasoning has an "if by some fortunate turn of events" tenor: Expecting by some fortunate new improvement the media had been less affected by shocking stories for the situation by some fortunate new advancement propensity in the media had been cleaned, and tolerating by some fortunate improvement fake news had been discarded and cyberattacks decreased, the outcome would have been uncommon. The power change has been disengaged from a commensurate standpoint, expecting by some fortunate new improvement the media were less distractible and titles more cautious. 

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Enduring that way is delightful, yet it misses the mark. The media did the unequivocally careful thing it was typical to do, given the inspirations that control it. It isn't precisely that the media chooses to be sentimentalist; its methodology leads it that way. Charges of propensity don't make the inclination certifiable; now and again lies dynamic ward upon every individual's inclinations. Fake news and cyberattacks are triggers, not causes. The issues that face us are crucial. To the request, in case the media were to cover the political race again, with the likely addition of knowing the past, might we at some point expect anything remarkable? my reaction is a sobering no. This is for two reasons: how news is made and elevated on the stock side and how clients manage news on the intriguing side. An impediment is perpetually out. The evaluation here isn't stressed over which contender saved the decision to win or whose message was better. It is stressed over analyzing the media and its wire, seeing its focal drivers, and understanding what we should expect going from it.

On occasion, the news is newsworthy not because it is especially life-getting refreshed but because it demands something clear that requires confirmation or because it outfits something broadly comprehended with an impression of scale. This applies to the openness uncovered by the New York Times's Jonathan Martin and Alexander Copies and announced by CNN's Brian Stelter that President Biden sees Rupert Murdoch, the pioneer behind Fox News, as the most dangerous man on the planet. Clear in overgeneralized terms yet eventually guaranteed and with a vibe of scale. Nevertheless, this top-line evaluation of the face ordinarily connected with the standard association network misses a basic optional assessment related to the Martin-Consumes counting. Fox News, the president feels, is the capability of unquestionably the most upsetting power in the US, as the essayists put it. This is the more basic disclosure as it sees the broadness of Fox News' impact even past the senior Murdoch. Four sections past Murdoch make Fox News a remarkably risky piece of the American news scene, its grit with the political right, the showed way by which it shapes its watchers' convictions, its grasp on moderate power, and the perspectives on its drive.