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Algorithms “However, the ways in which algorithms select and prioritize information have been heavily criticized: instead of promoting the free flow and transparent exchange of ideas that is necessary for a healthy democracy, the personalization of content has created filter bubbles that limit information flows and perpetuate bias.” You can hear about different info through social media and won’t know about it until somebody else brings it up because your personalization knows you don’t like to follow certain topics, or you won’t see what they were talking about until it is brought up in the conversation. For instance, on Instagram there is this page called The Shade Room and it post all current events in the world from celebrities’ business or birthdays to throwback song to political events, now you and your friend can both follow this page and somethings see the same post but some of them won’t show up for you because of the filtering that Instagram does to make someone’s feed more tailored to them. Advertising “The economics of clickbait help explain why so many stories around the events of 2016 and 2017 were designed to provoke particular emotional responses that increase the likelihood, intensity, and duration of engagement with the content.” I started college in 2017 so that summer when I would do dorm room stopping then stop and go to something else I would get a lot of ads saying “what you need for school” or “don’t bring too much or not enough” and I would click on it because they’d say found these list on target or somewhere and when you click on it would take you somewhere else and wouldn’t give you a list. I believe click bait back then was just a way for small businesses to get their name out there to the world. Exposure “While algorithms and advertisements filter and deliver information, users also select what they want to see or ignore. Scholars have emphasized the important role that individuals play in exercising their information preferences on the Internet.” Social media now has the functions to tailor what you want to see on your feeds. Twitter has the mute of certain words or phrases, on Instagram you can when you block somebody or remove them as a follower they ask if you want just that account or all accounts like that.

I believe in order for the use of social media to be effective in a business everybody must understand the goals and how to achieve those goal, because anybody can make a post on Instagram or twitter, but will it be effective? Not as much, that is where your team comes in so you guys and communicate what message you’re trying to spread but in the most effective way that your followers will like and understand. It is always good to keep at least one person who is active on social media on the team so they can keep up with the trends and monitor what the followers like and don’t like. Businesses must also have a wiliness to try the social media approach, like he said in the video he had an older man adapt to technology and a younger who wasn’t really with it but I believe the older man probably didn’t have a choice, he could have been being beat out by competitors and needed to promote his business to get my business. You see it on family sitcoms all the time, its an older business in the neighborhood that’s been there for years and then a new business comes into town and starts taking clients away from the original business which then forces the older business to get new ways of getting customers or they must change and update what they are doing to keep up with the times. But the world is always changing so the older business starts losing sight of why they started their business in the first place because they are trying so hard to compete and that’s when things go wrong and they realize that, yes, they may need an update every now and then but staying true to why they started is the most important part. He also said in the video people fail because they lose sight of their mission

It gives you better communication with your followers and gives you more updated feedback for them, as well as getting the most out of your content when you post it on certain platforms that you know you followers will have a good reaction too. When you post and then track your response it helps you understand your following.

As I was reading the chapters for this week all I could think about was my job. I work the At Home store which sales home décor and season things but when I was hired I was told to download this app called work jam and they told me that show you’ll see you schedule, see what’s going in not just our store but all the stores across the U.S. they have did sections on there and in them you can make post and it shows up in a feed like Instagram and I thought that was really cool but the deeper I got into the app I realized that it’s just only positive things on there, which it’s nothing wrong with that except if everything has to be positive on there all the time, what are people supposed to do if they are unhappy with something going on. For instance, I like my job, but they don’t really care about your life outside the job. I understand we’re workers but the job should be ready to make accommodations for workers who have to do things outside of the job as well, when I started I was spending too much time there and not enough time working on this semester so it caused me to fall behind in my class and when I was telling them that it didn’t seem to make a difference and nobody really cared. They never sat down with me in an office to figure out what I needed to change on my schedule until about a week ago but at this point, I was so far behind the new schedule wasn’t even helping so I had to just put in a request for some time off until the semester is over. I also know that having online classes is about your time management, but you can’t manage time if you dint have any to spare. y work experience has shown me how important it is to have these social medias as a way that employees and employers to communicate honestly and sometimes without consequences. This chapters also made me think about the show undercover boss, I think companies should go that far but I do believe something needs to be in place in the work field. The company I am using for my client project is a room decorating service, that right now is functioning through an Instagram page. The business owner has more than one small business, so each company gets it sown page and then occasionally a promotion for them gets posted on the other pages which is a good strategy because if most people trust you with one service and see how hard you work, they are more likely to use you again for another service. I don’t think that they are ready for paid ads just yet, by them just starting up I think it would be too soon for influx of people to come in right now. You don’t want to overwhelm yourself with a bunch of orders you can’t fill. I think Instagram is working just fine for now but in the future, I would recommend paid ads for Facebook or twitter  

After reading "The Internet's Original Sin" and watching Maciej Ceglowski's talk, discuss how internet business models influence surveillance and data gathering on the internet.               Like they mentioned advertising is the top business model that helps companies, and I personally don’t mind when ads are targeted for me. Like the ones you get after you were just talking about it. Sometimes I forget about the conversation, so those ads help me remember what I was going to investigate and see if I wanted to do something with that information. But we always know somebody is listening 24/7, from private companies that just want to know what your interested in to the government monitoring peoples daily habits to hacker who want to sell your information on the dark web.

If you were acting as a social media consultant to yourself, what plans, and strategies would you advise to improve your professional social media presence? What have you done so far, and what could you do in the future? I would make a bigger social media presence for myself, and I would make sure I put all my skills on there and just build myself up, so people can know what I can do. As for my personal social media I already keep what I post limited and positive just in case I have a possible job opportunity watching, I would have to ruin my chances at a job because I post crazy and extremely personal stuff. In the future I will still monitor what I post because everything doesn’t need to be posted online.                                                                                                

I don’t feel that anybody should put their personal business on that involves other people lives too. I know their page is theirs but that can be damaging to somebody’s life. My family loves putting all their business on the internet, rather it be good bad, just too personal that only the person it was intended for should see. I have family that is very successful and then others who are taking their time with getting where they will be in life, you can the difference in who is who because of the post they make. One will post travel and vacation pictures and the other is either them being mad at somebody, that makes people from the outside looking in look at people they don’t even know different. it also gets dangerous when people can track what your doing because they can use it against you or your family. like with kids, people are kidnapping kids through a game called Roblox by telling kids they are also kids when they are really in their 30′s or 40′s. Kids internet use and restrictions should really be in place because that puts them in danger of strangers or just being exposed to things they don’t need to be exposed too. 

I did my experiment with 24 hours of no screen time. I don’t know if this is considered cheating or not, but I did it on a day I had to work. That why I had a distraction for part of the day. I had class from 12:30-1:45 that day and worked from 4-10pm. So, for 8 out of my 24 hours I was in class and at work so that leaves 16 hours left in the day. I didn’t go to sleep until after 12 so I was up for the rest of the night when I got off work, I woke up for the day around 10:00 am to just to start my day, but I had to go throughout my day differently because normally when I get up I get on my phone to check what’s happening on Instagram and what I missed overnight then il either get on tik tok or I get on Facebook to check on my family who I don’t get to see on a daily basis. On this day I couldn’t do that, and it made getting up for the day a little harder because everyone knows once you get on your phone that means you are probably up for the day from the light on your phone. My room is in a basement, so it doesn't get much light down there unless its super sunny outside. The light from my phone is basically my sunlight which is really unhealth to say. Since I couldn’t look at my regular sunlight, I went upstairs to get some real sunlight and even drunk some water and doing that kind of made me feel better throughout the day I felt a little more recharged then usual. Since then, I do go upstairs when I wake up to get some natural light even if it’s for 2-3 minutes. After I went upstairs to get my sunlight and find me something to eat which is different than my usual day because I don’t eat until I get home from work, I just be at work eating little snacks and spending money that I don’t need to be spending but during my experiment I saved myself some money and I overall just felt better going throughout my day.