The world of social media and algorithms

The world of social media and algorithms

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We are living in a world with social media, do we want that or not

When I'm writing about Facebook in this text, I mean about social media. The problems with Facebook and data security is that when artificial intelligence is profiling the user for marketing it can also be used to create another kind of profiles. Data solutions that are used today are created for slower networks and in the begin of Facebook and other social media, the bandwidth of the networks have been less than 500 kilobytes, what made almost impossible to share images. The thing is that nobody even thought that someday almost every person has got the device, which allows sending the photographs and even movies to the Internet and what goes on the pocket.

That means this kind of things have not predicted when Facebook and another kind of social media solutions have been made. And another thing is that the algorithms, what are used for sorting data in the social media have been created for slower computers.

Modern supercomputers can sort billions of bytes more per second than some supercomputer in early 21 century. And the thing, what is new is that the data is transferring in the network. We are making more things on the Internet than before. When we are creating all our papers and memos on the net, we are in danger of hacking. But otherwise, we cannot lose those documents, while we are dropping our USB sticks. And we can continue to make those documents in every place, where we want.

The ability to filter data makes NSA so effective

The thing, what makes NSA so effective is that it has the capacity to filter information. That thing means that the computer can choose the data, what would send to operators by using multiple algorithms. One of the algorithms is the simultaneous calls to the telephone, which is owned by the known criminal. That means that the system can collect telephone calls and E-mails, which are interested in law enforcement. One of them is the E-mails between well known criminal and police chief.

Or the lawyer, whose spouses cleaning company would get millions of euros by cleaning offices, what are owned by Mafia. In the modern time, those officials must not listen to every tape and the computer would also use the "speech to text" solution for creating documents of those records. And the thing is that this kind of solutions is working as some kind of karaoke, which means that the judge can follow the tape like in some kind of karaoke happening.

In a couple of years ago, there were massive campaigns against social media. The attitude was that "companies have their own official channels, and the normal workers should concentrate on their work". But there is one thing, what made that campaign ineffective, and that is that it was made by the media, what has own cow in the ditch. The print media has problems with modern electronic media, and there was always one very big problem, and that is "what if the journalist writes racist or provocative writings?".

The second thing was that why people should be silent if they are harassed at the workplace? When we are thinking about social media, we can see things, what might feel very interesting. Almost every person, who is written in the social media are faced things, what is called "troll". Usually, that thing is like "fucking gay" type phrases, what are telling something about the way, how the harassed will think about things. Sometimes we are facing cases, that somebody has been used trolls for closing the social media.

There are millions of people, who have something to hide with their own backgrounds. And one of them is the unemployed person, who lives in Europe, but spends the winters in Hawaii. Those people would not want their friends to know about this kind of things. But there is another kind of cases, what might be very embarrassing, if they are uncovered. One of them is the priest or head of some charity campaign, who has been the head of the harassing in the school period.

Sometimes there have been suicides in that kind of cases and after that, the person has been changed the name and lived in the foreign land that everybody would forget that kind of things. But social media is a powerful tool for politicians, who are marketing their own ideas on how to improve society. But social media needs an active attitude, and that means that if a person would not have own thoughts, that kind of things is also uncovering in social media.

The social media account might be kept by somebody else

There are services, what are selling the social media writings, which means that the account is handled by professionals. And sometimes is claimed that some ice-hockey players have been burned about this kind of things. In those cases, the player has been written texts for social media, while that man has been on ice. I don't know if this true or false, but if this happens to the politician, that thing would be a little bit more embarrassing than in the case of the ice-hockey player.

In the social media have been uncovered things like that the person, who seems very emphatic and have been marketed very nice guy is something else. And there is also uncovered that some very nice looking kind person is total racists, who believe to be over everybody else. This is the problem with psychopaths and narcissist. They are looking like nice guys, but those persons have no social conscience. Those people are normally nicely dressed and polite, but they think always their own benefit.

One good mark to uncover that kind of person is that the psychopath wants to maximize own benefit. This means that this inmate always chooses the stronger side, and those persons are changing their opinion always to the side of the majority. Or actually, psychopaths are choosing the side, what gives that person the best benefit. And if some person offers the ice-hockey tickets for the psychopath, that person can be the side of the minorities, if that allows getting in the circles of the rich people, whose pictures they can show in the Facebook, what is suddenly filled with the selfies, what the psychopath portrays with the well known ice-hockey players . So this is the sermon for this morning.