What do you love vs hate about social media?

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can be anything from features, to the system as a whole :)

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Love how easy it is to check up on how the people I care about are doing no matter where they are.

Hate that most people do not chose what they want to consume on social media but instead it is decided by an algorithm to try and keep you as hooked on your phone as possible while also spending as much money as possible.

Ryan Gilbert · Answer

Love: how easy it is to connect with people you would otherwise have no intro to

Hate: the constant "trends" that everyone feels the need to jump onto for engagement. just be authentic.

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Kate Kurshina · Answer

I like almost everything!
Except that there's a lot of politics these days... You get tired of this content. That's why I don't go in unnecessarily.

Nicole Ogloza · Answer

@pablo_fatas interesting thought. What do you think about an interactive news/social media? one that doesn't curtail you into a rabbit hole of nonsense, but something that might educate you (though AI and crowdsourcing) for real information?

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@nicole_ogloza This would be ideal but this makes a lot less money. These insidious algorithms is what keeps so much of the content we consume free and easly available.

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Cris Barbs · Answer

Love how easily you can check up on your fam, or check out a new resto nearby. But hate how it consumes most of my time and hate people posting negative vibes.

James Hollston · Answer

I really like how fast and easy you can check up on poeple i care about. And i really hate the censorsip in every kind of social media, we don't have the ability to really talk about some things the way we want to do it.

Will Olson · Answer

Love: Finding new people and hearing about their projects and thougths
Love: Catching up on world events

Hate: How I can just get pulled down pointless rabbit holes or doom-scrolling

Kelly Mccollum · Answer

@crissy_22 👌

Jens Hassler · Answer

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Things like the attention extraction economy and the surveillance capitalism of today's big players concern me the most. I think that building products solely on the pillars of the advertising industry is a no-go, leading to very bad impacts on society as a whole. The movie "the social dilemma" is very good in transporting this.

Changes always start with small steps and optimism. I hope that others will follow.

Nicole Ogloza · Answer

@katerina_kurshina makes sense. we are trying to get politics off the main social's in order to clean it up a bit. Facebook should be for fam/friends connections, twitter for random posts, and instagram left for lifestyle, and linkedin for professional things! I agree with you that there are too many politics on there.

Nicole Ogloza · Answer

@ryangilbert interesting. never thought about the trend piece! tal about FOMO!

What do you love vs hate about social media?

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