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Course: Social media literacy > Unit 3
Lesson 3: What is artificial intelligence and how do social media companies use it?Reflection activity: Your experiences with algorithms
What world is social media showing you?
Reflection activity
🤔 CONSIDER:
Take another look at your favorite social media app.
- Keeping in mind what you have learned about algorithms, what do you notice about what your feeds are showing you?
- Why do you think the algorithm decided to show you what it did?
Want to join the conversation?
- I see a lot of influencers(3 votes)
- I watch an influencer often on Youtube, and they show up very often on my homepage(3 votes)
- my hobbies or things I like usually show up.(2 votes)
- i see a lot of people trying to influence the good(2 votes)
- my 'fyp' is just people getting hit by trucks. Does that mean i like watching people die or get hospitalized?😭(1 vote)
- meow meow meow meow meow meow meow(1 vote)
- real ah jittleyang? or fuhuhalatoogen?(1 vote)
- 1. What I notice about the feeds that are showing is when I look and like it or go to more they going to show more often.
2.What I think the algorithm decide to show what I did is they want you took look at more of what your seeing and get you on your phone longer.(1 vote) - Their algorithms work so nicely. When I use one of app just watching post for some seconds.
App start to recommend similar posts until I ignore.(1 vote) - To keep you the view on the site and actively trying to get you stuck in its clutches
Money and watchtime(1 vote)