Previous SnoopTwice Vintage Shop Next SnoopDecades Margaret Louis / 22 September 2024 / Categories: Books, Non-fiction Social Warming - the dangerous and polarising effects of social media Reads Like Science Fiction except he’s describing our world right now. I took much from this book by journalist Charles Arther. So much I think everyone should read it. It certainly indirectly advocates for somewhere like Poopsnoop, not controlled by in the authors words A moral algorithms.“Social warming has happened gradually – as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence. But the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behaviour on- and offline – this vicious cycle of anger and outrage – is real.”An absolutely fascinating and super well researched, kinda scary insight that certainly has changed my behaviour online and completely woken me up to my mindless scrolling, (and I thought I was pretty good at detaching from my phone) apparently in two hours a day our daily average of scrolling if we are one of the 4 billion smart phone users globally we are mindlessly looking at approx 700 pages of information. And that is worth a lot of money to companies like Meta (Facebook, Instagram) X formerly Twitter and TikTok.Bulletin board called the well out of San Francisco in the late 70s where developers saw the more time spent arguing the more engagement was the start and great for the well as more time was spent they made more money for the site. What are you allowed to put on the internet 1990 communications decency act, trying to get porn off the internet, a pretty hopeless task, people being sued for what appeared on a bulletin board item they weren’t responsible for it, moderate as much or as little as you like, sites aren’t responsible for what other people put up there, section 230 (came out of the us) people have the inbuilt desire to rule other people because of their anonymity.India tells Twitter certain things can’t be put online, Singapore restricts what can be seen about the royals, Germany insists hate speech has to be removed in 24 hours. Social media companies self regulate.MetaGet as many users as you canDon’t let go of their attentionmonetize that attentionThere is no good incentive to get rid of people causing trouble.There are few good examples of companies platforms that have filtered out the bad users by moderation.Interesting example in the bookReference text about fruit flies on sale for 1 million dollars and then he saw another copy to 1 million and 2 dollars, then the next day the book went to one million and 100 thousand.The machines between the two systems, one was trying to sell on price and the other was trying to sell on reputation. These are algorithms that have no idea what they are trying to do. when only one of the two suppliers had the book.The one thing you are going to understand from this book is “Algorithms have no morals” Print Rate this snoop: No rating yet 78 Tags:book reviewcharles arthursocial warming the dangerous and polarising effectbooksbook Club Rant Or RaveRaveProsSo insightful and obvious ConsMakes you feel a bit stupid to be fairWebsitewww.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/17/social-warming-by-charles-arthur-review-a-coolly-prosecutorial-look-at-social-media Margaret LouisMargaret Louis Editor Moderator Poopsnoop Other snoops by Margaret Louis Contact snooper Full biography Full biography If you have questions about the site or want to get more involved as a "super snooper" moderating snoops and ensuring Poopsnoop content is valid and appropriate for our visitors please get in touch. x Twitter Comments are only visible to subscribers. Contact author Message sent. Name: Please enter your name. Please enter your name. Email: Please enter a valid email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your email. Subject: Please enter a subject Please enter a subject Message: Please enter the message. I have read and agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms Of Use. Please select if you agree. Please solve captcha Please solve captcha. Close x