When the first developers of the internet created the baseline for what we now know I don’t think they expected it to grow and evolve into what it has today. Social media is one part of the internet that has created its own sort of style and realm to it. Social media has been bent to be this place where people with similar ideas and ideologies go to radicalize those feelings and become something I don’t think they expected to become.

When Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter were first created it was first created they were meant as a way to share different ideas, as a way to share our experiences to the world. This was a way to involve more people in what we perceived as our own world. This allowed us to create new friends, reconnect with old ones, or even reconcile with people. But social media has become a place for people to argue and twisted in their own ways even to become radicalized in their thought process. This is what one of the problems that is held within Facebook that has been scrutinized by government officials in the way it uses algorithms to trap people in their own radicalized thinking that even furthers their radicalized process. This is talked about in Facebook Dilemmas Part one that speaks on how Facebook answers questions about this process but never truly changes what they are doing because its good for business.

Machine outrage speaks on the subject of how social media can be used as a weapon of sorts to vents one anger out to the public. This anger can then be used as a news outlet whether true or not it doesn’t matter people can now use material on there to prove there point of view. People then can spend hours arguing with others on how something is right or wrong.

People get trapped in this cocoon of lies or truth that involves heavy arguing. This then makes people prone to silence if they are in the minority on a subject. I can take this from my own life in how I used to try and convince people from my home that is very conservatively isolated from the rest of the world that how people act and speak can be perceived as racist. This would lead to arguing that would last for hours. This led me to stop speaking out because its hard trying to convince a majority of people something that is easy for them to deny while on a phone. So I ask you guys this how can we as a society change our ways on social media? Is there any silver lining to how social media has made us very angry in this covid-19 world?