In Jacob Silverman’s “Terms off Service”, social media has become the focal point of our current society, but the media’s ongoing progress is becoming significantly hazardous to our lives. The glitches in our communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or will ever fully understand. In Terms of Service, he takes the readers through our current addiction with technology and elaborates on why. From the pleasures of letting our presence being known and why what we think we share is important. Through all this we do not recognize the surveillance aspect that goes along with these social media platforms like Google, Twitter, and Facebook. People have almost no idea how little their information is actually private when it is
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The constant engagement in never ending exploitation, manipulation, and false sense of privacy are all used against us in the hunt of user data and advertising revenue. They feed on the fact that we are totally unaware of what we share and how we need to act in order to be seen or heard. We all develop the sense that we are going to miss something or someone isn’t going to see what we said, leading us to constantly share more and more. We display such mindless behaviors to a point where we do not even think twice about it, we just keep sharing. As Silverman writes, “surrounded by the incessant chorus of likes, favorites, and a thousand bits of banal-but-cheerfully-good news.” We are constantly being spoon fed things that interest us, forcing us to sacrifice our privacy and personal data with sharing. With media allowing us to indulge ourselves and our needs of having to know now, to see and be heard, and lastly being free to roam the internet and search what we want, we give billions and billions of sources for data. From the article “From Social to Sale: The Effects of Firm-Generated Content in Social Media on Customer Behavior” they state “we rely on the naive Bayes algorithm/classifier to categorize the valence or the sentiment of the postings: FGC receptivity takes into account customers’ response to social media messages, and FGC …show more content…
Because the use of media is so crucial in our society and if we had security with our collection of ideas, we would really have no reason to not use something so great. Connection between others is so important but when its all being tracked you loose who you are by subconscious manipulation and that is why we need the change. However, because we have so many security issues and are brainwashed by “agreeing to terms.” Our culture has become just one person collecting income on another person’s data. Billions of people are victim to being surveyed and and its ethically wrong because we can’t have a sense of security while wanting to share our lives with everyone. If more people were aware of how much information is leaked, I believe there would be a sense of urgency on our behalf to want change. When you learn, that Facebook, literally tracks everything you do on their website, not only what you post, but every profile you’ve ever looked at, very time you sign in, the places in which you are signing in at, and to make things really creepy they can even track the things you begin type in the status bar and end up
The constant engagement in never ending exploitation, manipulation, and false sense of privacy are all used against us in the hunt of user data and advertising revenue. They feed on the fact that we are totally unaware of what we share and how we need to act in order to be seen or heard. We all develop the sense that we are going to miss something or someone isn’t going to see what we said, leading us to constantly share more and more. We display such mindless behaviors to a point where we do not even think twice about it, we just keep sharing. As Silverman writes, “surrounded by the incessant chorus of likes, favorites, and a thousand bits of banal-but-cheerfully-good news.” We are constantly being spoon fed things that interest us, forcing us to sacrifice our privacy and personal data with sharing. With media allowing us to indulge ourselves and our needs of having to know now, to see and be heard, and lastly being free to roam the internet and search what we want, we give billions and billions of sources for data. From the article “From Social to Sale: The Effects of Firm-Generated Content in Social Media on Customer Behavior” they state “we rely on the naive Bayes algorithm/classifier to categorize the valence or the sentiment of the postings: FGC receptivity takes into account customers’ response to social media messages, and FGC …show more content…
Because the use of media is so crucial in our society and if we had security with our collection of ideas, we would really have no reason to not use something so great. Connection between others is so important but when its all being tracked you loose who you are by subconscious manipulation and that is why we need the change. However, because we have so many security issues and are brainwashed by “agreeing to terms.” Our culture has become just one person collecting income on another person’s data. Billions of people are victim to being surveyed and and its ethically wrong because we can’t have a sense of security while wanting to share our lives with everyone. If more people were aware of how much information is leaked, I believe there would be a sense of urgency on our behalf to want change. When you learn, that Facebook, literally tracks everything you do on their website, not only what you post, but every profile you’ve ever looked at, very time you sign in, the places in which you are signing in at, and to make things really creepy they can even track the things you begin type in the status bar and end up