One topic that interested me and I actually did my Discussion lead project on is filter bubbles with Facebook and other social media websites. In class when we talked about how websites like Facebook are using peoples search history and interest to excluded them from information on the social media site. These websites have been doing this for years and the problem that people have with it is that its a invasion of privacy since they are constantly using algorithms to determine what kind of information they want to show you. You would think that it would be a good thing, since people like to see what they want to see, but people also don’t like it when information is being excluded from them. Not only is information excluded from people using these social media sites, but fake information is also being thrown out their and shown to people. This had a huge impact on the 2016 election since fake news about each presidential candidate was being released to the public. For example if you were a democratic Facebook would know that you were a democrats and would only show you good information about Hilary Clinton and would never show anything bad about her. When it came time to show information about Donald Trump it would only be bad information or fake information and it was the same for republicans. In class when we were shown the video of the girl who would went to japan and tried to have her face scanned by a robot and it wasn’t able to scan her face, because she was African american. We also did the activity in class when we all looked at websites that use filter bubbles and my group looked at YouTube and how they would recommend videos to you based off your search history just so you would continue watching videos. Its crazy how technology can be so smart that its able to effect our personal lives and also effect our opinions on important things. Technology should not be used this way and she be able to show information that is equal for everyone. People also need to be educated about this so that they can avoid the problem.
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