It's the algorithm! I always react on your posts when I see them.
Try imagining that something like this would happen in real life too - you walk on the street and some people all the time make sure to hide your friends from your view, whenever they pass you. So you never see them, even when being close to them.
It would be a rather grotesque situation, and it will not happen because it is too expensive to hire enough cover-people to do it - but on social media, it only takes a few lines of program code, and there you have it: a society that is segregated and split, people being divided artificially and against their will and wish.
Who knows? It's so prevalent that the latest contact I made there started with "I'm gay" because he knows this is a thing. Isn't it sad that someone has to disclose their sexual orientation just to get an answer?
This is happening to me on Medium, too. I'm never sure if you guys are busy and not posting or if the algorithm is just messing with me.
It's the algorithm! I always react on your posts when I see them.
Try imagining that something like this would happen in real life too - you walk on the street and some people all the time make sure to hide your friends from your view, whenever they pass you. So you never see them, even when being close to them.
It would be a rather grotesque situation, and it will not happen because it is too expensive to hire enough cover-people to do it - but on social media, it only takes a few lines of program code, and there you have it: a society that is segregated and split, people being divided artificially and against their will and wish.
It would be soooo weird! But somehow, we have accepted that life works based on mysterious algorithms.
Yes, the Internet — and in particular social media — is being allowed a lot of things we wouldn't allow anywhere else.
Indeed! I'm pretty sure 90% of the creeps that approach me confusing LinkedIn with Tinder wouldn't do so in real life.
Did they believe that Tinder was a business site? ;)
Who knows? It's so prevalent that the latest contact I made there started with "I'm gay" because he knows this is a thing. Isn't it sad that someone has to disclose their sexual orientation just to get an answer?