Watched it on Netflix last Friday. When I read it, some parts of it are kind of friendly, because it is something that will be encountered in work. The people I watched with me last week told me that I'm also a small screw in this big system right now.
There are a lot of people who work in big companies, such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc., but there are no people who work at Netflix. Strictly speaking, Netflix is not social media, but when it comes to artificial intelligence and data collection, Netflix is a big player.
Talking to my colleagues this morning about the idea of a tax on data, it was an idea that caught my eye and that I hadn't thought about before. Colleagues said that if we do this, if the tax is heavy, our company will probably go bankrupt.
A colleague who studied political propaganda in social media for a master's thesis said that if she were to design Facebook or an idealized social media world, politically relevant content would not appear in interest recommendations. I remembered that a client said three weeks ago that he saw an advertisement for the Biden campaign in a certain game. We did some investigation and confirmed the situation. Later, this game was banned directly from us. If this problem is not solved, this game will be banned forever. Our company has a zero-tolerance policy on political advertising in games.
A colleague is not very concerned about the data being collected, because he can see a lot of content that interests him without having to search for it.
Regarding the serious split caused by the fact that everyone only sees the content that they are interested in, my idea is to appropriately push some content that users are not so interested in, at least let users have a glimpse. But there is another problem here, because if you are not interested, don’t click on it or watch it, it will be difficult to quantify the performance in this way; for this reason, you will earn less money. (I will continue to think about this point in the future to see if there is any optimization method)
Regarding data collection, my idea is: if you want to collect my data, you have to tell me where you want to collect what data and what to do with it, and you can't collect it without my permission.
I talk a lot on a lot of social media, but for any of them, I can now walk away without any attachment. But I know that I will open a new account on a platform, continue to use it, and continue to be a social media user. My hope is that I can be someone who doesn't use any social media. Not that everyone has to do this, it's just my hope for myself.
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