Facebook and other "liking" mashines
I was reading an article about Facebook and Internet in general. It reflected pretty much what I think. There are couple of thoughts, that I found interesting and true. These thoughts are, that Facebook (and Twitter etc.) had become a factory that produces “likes”. And that people tend to share information not for the value of that information, but to confirm their self worth. And that these social network’s algorithms are throwing the user into the opinion bubble. They shows us the content that we are most likely going to like. And so we are clicking and liking. We are manipulated by algorithms that Facebook uses when deciding what content will show up…We are not making this decision ourselves. We are only clicking like sheep in a herd…. There were much more thoughts. I am not going to re-write everything. Only one more note. It was about one journalist known for his attitude against Brexit. He was surrounded with “friends” with same opinion. Than he needed to find people tha...