In Aimée Morrison’s text, “Facebook and Coaxed Affordances,” she speaks of Facebook’s way of coaxing their users to create posts with trivial insight by limiting affordances, meaning the “quality or utility which is readily apparent or available” (Oxford Dictionary). Morrison also suggests that Facebook “algorithmically generates news items that are grammatically parallel to user-authored ones, creating a news feed text that combines disparate information and actions into a unified narrative” (pp. 304). What this means is Facebook uses an algorithmic affordance to categorize what is published by their users. Further research regarding this issue is shown in a video posted by Eli Pariser on TEDtalk called “Beware online ‘filter bubbles’”. This
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Facebook, along with many other social media websites, are filtering them into bubbles based on the links and posts they click “without consulting” (Pariser) their users. These bubbles limit user’s abilities to view postings or sites that contradict with their shared opinion. This social media that is meant to “connect us all together” (Pariser) but is, in reality, actually sorting the world into comfortable bubbles. They have the power to expose their users to different ideas, thoughts, and perspectives but yet they filter the user’s newsfeeds, advertisements, and page suggestions based on their status updates, their likes and the things they share. The disturbing thing is “[users] don’t decide what gets in and more importantly [users] don’t actually see what gets edited out.” (Pariser). The problem with this is that it leads to a society that finds, “a squirrel dying in front of [their] house […] more relevant to [their] interests right now than people dying in Africa.” (Mark Zuckelberg in Pariser). Society has begun to lose a sense of responsibility because media no longer forces challenging matter on people. The content is all …show more content…
Pinterest is another one of many social media’s that is at fault for creating their site in such a way. It coaxes their users into pinning about clothing or GIFs but never items of great substance. When users pin something on Pinterest it will automatically within that moment change what posts are being fed to this user. Facebook and Pinterest, along with many other social medias, are falling short of their responsibility to coax their users into discussing the uncomfortable issues and learning about others
Facebook, along with many other social media websites, are filtering them into bubbles based on the links and posts they click “without consulting” (Pariser) their users. These bubbles limit user’s abilities to view postings or sites that contradict with their shared opinion. This social media that is meant to “connect us all together” (Pariser) but is, in reality, actually sorting the world into comfortable bubbles. They have the power to expose their users to different ideas, thoughts, and perspectives but yet they filter the user’s newsfeeds, advertisements, and page suggestions based on their status updates, their likes and the things they share. The disturbing thing is “[users] don’t decide what gets in and more importantly [users] don’t actually see what gets edited out.” (Pariser). The problem with this is that it leads to a society that finds, “a squirrel dying in front of [their] house […] more relevant to [their] interests right now than people dying in Africa.” (Mark Zuckelberg in Pariser). Society has begun to lose a sense of responsibility because media no longer forces challenging matter on people. The content is all …show more content…
Pinterest is another one of many social media’s that is at fault for creating their site in such a way. It coaxes their users into pinning about clothing or GIFs but never items of great substance. When users pin something on Pinterest it will automatically within that moment change what posts are being fed to this user. Facebook and Pinterest, along with many other social medias, are falling short of their responsibility to coax their users into discussing the uncomfortable issues and learning about others