Facebook's algorithm change is so noticeable that I'm now hearing from many non-technical, frustrated people who know I study this stuff and asking me how to break out of it. They don't have the terminology for it, but people are effectively asking me how to game the algorithm.
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It's all so complex that I don't know what it will all mean, but the key point is that this is all greatly consequential, and unilaterally imposed. No simple way to muck around with social and informational interaction structures of two billion people. The crisis is structural.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Brian Hylton
This is not a sustainable answer. Facebook is the only way for a large number of essential connections for a large number of people--functions ranging from family, work to political participation.https://twitter.com/_bhylton/status/961947700852940801 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted seriously 211
The world also worked before cell phones or any phones. It even worked before writing. Try functioning without one now. It's not the same once something becomes crucial infrastructure for important functions. (Besides, Instagram is Facebook ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )https://twitter.com/seriously211/status/961950534126264321 …
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I stopped using Facebook a year plus ago. I am, so far as I can tell, still alive. I even still have friends.
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Oh, I'm not disagreeing that they have a total monopoly and are totally entwined with lots of people. I'm just saying it is possible to extract oneself.
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If getting off Facebook severs those ties, they aren't essential.
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It completely possible to be successful (easily, even) in all spheres of life without Facebook. There are just so many available ways to communicate outside of it. If you haven't tried it, I really recommend it.
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