Only the most adaptable profit on networks

Darwin was right about everything. Year after year, on a global level, it becomes clear that social networks also have their own food chain. The moderate eat the withdrawn, the violent devour the moderate, and the ultra-aggressive devour the violent.

Facebook and Twitter are actually the street world brought into the public sphere. Violent, offensive and aggressive, and sometime after that, the prestigious and competitive dynamics of the network is here to remind you that there is no relaxation.

There is no such thing as a peaceful, harmonized life as the dominant space in which we live, and then a separate enclave of violence on Twitter. No, this here is us. A precise psychological profile could be made about every inhabitant of the planet who uses the networks, just on the basis of posts. And don't rely too much on the existing algorithms in this demanding job for the time being, they have really come a long way and can do many things, but they are still in their own prehistoric phase, they make a lot of mistakes like a living human being, a flesh and blood one, not a computer one. surgery, would never do.

In addition to the main messages we send, there are also those peripheral and unavoidable signs: intonation, defensive or offensive attitude, degree of aggression and offensiveness, level of politeness, reflection of intimate frustrations, state of alcoholism or susceptibility to some stronger opiates, internal conflicts, hypocrisy that some radiate without being aware of how much they can contradict themselves in just one day, sometimes even in one single hour. Many think that the image they send to urbi et orbi is a matter of their deliberate choice, not realizing that it is much more than that.

Networks are a social disaster in two directions, an unimaginable amount of evil rolls through them, but there is traffic in the other direction as well, the one that leads to good, whatever that means and however anyone understands it. And there is already a possibility of choice, every day we have the right to decide or choose which column we will be in. There are people who, with every right and with many reasonable arguments, take themselves off the net. They say it's as if they've taken off their heroin. But for us, classic voyeurs and born exhibitionists, it is a less attractive option, because life is only one, exciting and interesting, and nowhere is it as intense as on Facebook. Seeing a good movie or reading a good book is one of the available forms of time consumption. But participating in a discussion about that movie, or book, or witnessing someone else's discussion from the sidelines, has an equal appeal. This is communication just right for the 21st century, and it only preludes it into even more abstract, alienated and indirect forms. We have yet to see what awaits us with the AI ​​project.

How is the adjustment process going on social networks? Much like in life. You write something. It turns out to be nonsense. You get burned, but you ignore the experience and repeat it. You can repeat it two or three times, and one day you will still learn the lesson and adopt new rules. Or you will be swallowed. Algorithms that study us for now rest on the recognition of similarities and a certain number of psychosocial regularities in behavior patterns. So they classify us into sociophobic observers, expansive activists, disinterested or self-serving jerks... There are probably hundreds of categories into which we can be classified, all of which in the end merge into - more or less accurate, and as time goes on it will be more and more accurate - the final portrait that is further sold to advertising and other agencies. Anyone can get that product for ridiculous amounts. Students all over the world, for the purpose of taking exams, made experiments and bought data on about thirty thousand individuals for about a hundred dollars. No one can preserve privacy anymore.

(analysiraj.ba)