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Social Media Is Like A Fiction Story
I spent the last few years doing an English degree which, inevitably, meant I spent the last few years doing a lot of reading and collecting a lot of stories. And in all the stories I’ve read, I’ve come to realize the ones I’m most passionate about are the ones that resist neat narratives.
By Muzammil Zaman4 years ago in Futurism
Unpersoning
Almost everyone has a social media page in modern societies. And most people with those social media pages stay active, posting special moments from their lives or simply sharing everyday thoughts that pass through their mind. But what if an active, social media user stops posting? Not only just stops posting, but also deletes their account entirely? While some may choose to do that for the sake of their sanity (no judgement there), there's a more sinister reason that can explain why someone on social media, even with thousands or millions of followers, will suddenly disappear from online society.
By v4 years ago in Futurism
It's Not Only Social Networks - The Entire Internet is Gamified to Meaninglessness
After I wrote about how engagement algorithms are killing meaningful content in social networks, I started noticing some things on the Internet that I did not pay attention to before :
By Oz Zeren4 years ago in Futurism
Facebook 2.0: Meta wants to turn our physical movements into money
When Facebook bought Oculus and its much-hyped Rift VR goggles for $2 billion in 2014, it wasn't entirely clear what the social media giant was planning with this move into virtual reality. But anyone familiar with Facebook's myriad scandals and insatiable hunger for personal data had some premonition.
By AddictiveWritings4 years ago in Futurism
The Metaverse: Virtual Reality and the Convergence of Physical and Digital Space.
Facebook has announced that its platforms will be rebranded and incorporated under a single new corporate name: Meta. You may be wondering what Mark Zuckerberg meant by "Metaverse" in his video about this recent change. I'll try to clarify it in this article from my perspective.
By Alejandro Betancourt4 years ago in Futurism
Digital Amnesia
This article was written by John Mulnix and originally published in The Particle on 6/23/2020. What is digital amnesia? It’s also known as digital obsolescence, but basically, it happens when a file, website, or piece of computer hardware can no longer be read or function, thereby depriving us of the ability to read the contents stored in that medium.
By The Particle Publication4 years ago in Futurism
Is A.I. Ruining Social Media for Artists?
If you've browsed fanart on Instagram or other social media platforms, it's almost impossible that you haven't come across Artbreeder images. These perfectly crafted, photo-realistic portraits are often made to resemble famous characters from animated films and television programs. Portraits like these also often resemble real artwork, made by real people, but they are not. If you see an image with the caption "made using Artbreeder" then you should know that the image you're seeing was generated by a complex A.I. program designed to produce artificial artwork. Artbreeder is a GAN Breeding program that allows any user to create unique pieces of art by having the A.I's system combine other images already in its database. These pieces of art are quite literally bred, with the traits and qualities of other images being endlessly recombined and changed to create them.
By Shenoa Rose5 years ago in Futurism
The New Virtual Normal – Memberships & Subscriptions
Here i go with my second story on Vocal again for a challenge and again just a few hours before the deadline : )) Deciding to join Vocal+ was a big question mark ? as i am still not ready to publish as much to justify the Plus Badge; but couldn’t resist as the “Membership” ecosystem fancied me a lot. Even though the term is no new to me but i was not aware of its monumental growth as a full-fledged business service offering starting with a minimalist approach catering to individual short-term needs to complex long-term corporate needs. Now, what are these NEEDS ?
By MonaMam5 years ago in Futurism
Social media and its positive side
The presence of social media has added a lot of tremendous achievements to the media world at large. Its value and relevance can't be undermined. The rate at which it gradually revolved and evolved has been alarming. There is virtually no place on earth the presence of social media isn't felt. Or maybe i should say 90 percent of the countries in the world have the presence of social media.
By Olalekan Adeeko5 years ago in Futurism
Such a pain in the bots
Seriously, am I the only one who can not stand these damn bots ? you know all those long or short automated comments and the fake contents all over social media.
By J Louis5 years ago in Futurism
Death of the Masses?
A Shepard herds sheep much like a corporation does the masses... In a more modern perspective, one would ask what would musicians be without record labels? Or even imagining what would tech be without Apple or Microsoft? Corporations such as these have existed for decades without any real check on which way they may be shepherding the perceivable multitudes. Apps such as YouTube are propagated by the Mega entity Google and Instagram is kept alive by Facebook. What is to be said about these apps that engulf the user and more of their data?
By Mysterious Hovering Eye5 years ago in Futurism
The Cult of Social Media
The promise of large-scale globally-connecting projects, all tied to technological innovations, is always to foster understanding between peoples and cultures.
By Samir M Goradia5 years ago in Futurism