@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:01

Social media/networks as a whole - net positive or net negative?

We not only have Echo Chambers, but the problem is we have decent people in these Echo Chambers who have been in some form or the other convinced or brainwashed with misinformation that they truly believe in. From that standpoint, it seems to me that social media has had a net negative effect. It's almost like we went through a lot of positive things and somehow bad actors figured out how to use these tools to their advantage and were highly successful in their plans. So that's how I look at it

Over the last 15 years social networks have played a major role in our lives. In the grand come has this been for better or worse?

@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 4:58

#nospam human communication

Shami. Thank you very much for an excellent and thoughtprovoking swell. I'm really heartened by your contributions and I hope that swell can make a difference in the social communication of of today. So let me start with what I perceived as the inherent problem in social communication. It's the same problem that email faced, which is that of spam. Now email addressed spam early on with spam filters. Gmail provides the ability to categorize your inbox into four different tabs
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 2:15
Shammy. This is a great question and one that I have many thoughts on because I am not a Facebook user, never have been, and that's by choice. That's really because of what I observe, even hear from other people. And I understand the newness when Facebook first came out and you're able to connect with friends, but it's really evolved into something that and I won't go into all the algorithms and how it was created
@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:06
Worst, I think they let it just perpetuate because they really fell into the clickbait camp because that drove in more traffic and more traffic was good for their business. So yes, I would say it. Facebook has been highly responsible with this in the interest of its own bottom line. So coming to swell
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