My 5th Blog WOW!!

Here are my three quotes.

”We really care what other people think of us so for example you know when you upload a new photo a new profile photo of yourself on Facebook that’s a moment where our mind is very vulnerable to knowing what other people think of my new profile photo and so when we get new likes on our profile photo Facebook knowing  this could actually message me and say  oh you have new likes on your profile photo and we it knows that we’ll be vulnerable to that moment because we all really care about when were tagged in a photo or when we have a new profile photo and the thing is that they control the dial for when and how long technology companies control the dial for when and how long your profile photo shows up on other peoples newsfeed so they can orchestrate it so that other people more often end up liking your profile photo over a delayed period of time for examples so that you end up having to more frequently come back and see what the new likes are”. -Chamath Palihapitiya-  This is 100% correct almost everyone cares about what someone else says or every social media site so many likes it’s ridiculous I have pulled myself away from social media a ton!!

“Um no, Senator no I would not choose to do that publicity here. Senator I think everyone should have control over how their information is used and as we’ve talked about some of the other questions I think that, that is laid out in, in some of the documents but more importantly you want to give people control in the product itself so the most important way this happens is across our service that everyday people comes to our service to choose to share photos or send messages.” The Senator makes Mark speechless and uncomfortable after asking him a private question. We are in control but only of so much.  We cant not make Facebook only see our post but instead its public with family and friends. The Senator made many great points of how social media is taking over our lives and ruining our privacy. Mark Zuckerberg the man who made Facebook a family/ friend site may not have turned out as he wanted. Why cant we know his location or even where he’s at?

“Imagine like when you take that to the extreme where you know bad actors can now manipulate large swathes of people to do anything you want its just a its really really bad state of affairs and we compound the problem right we curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short term signals hearts, likes, thumbs up and we conflate that with value and we conflated with truth and instead what it really is is fake brittle popularity that’s short term and that leaves you even more and admit it vacant and empty before you did it because then it forces you into this vicious cycle where you’re like what’s the next thing I need to do now because I need it back think about that compounded by two billion people and then think about how people react then to the perceptions of others.” -Chamath Palihapitiya

 My opinion Social media is taking over were trying to keep up with social media, Its like wanting us to see something that’s not there, so we go searching for something. Social media is only short term and it can take over some peoples lives which is crazy to say but two million people also have different perceptions than me and any other person on this earth. It is ruining our lives effecting our attention span and many more.