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“Now it seems like people
are being instrumentalized
by the algorithm itself. If
you look at TikTok, your body
is literally animated by the
algorithm. It tells you how
to move yourself and you end
up dancing for this abstract
formulation of capital and
algorithmic recommendation.”

Joshua Citarella

The social media algorithm creates special and unique "Plato digital caves" for each of us, according to what it learns from us. He knows how we think, our affinities (religious, political, sexual, etc), our tastes (musical, family, couple, food, etc.) what offends or pleases us, etc.

The algorithm will keep recommending you the same content over and over again keeping you in the "shadows" regardless of whether the content is good or bad / true or false, just to keep your attention caught. This practice can not only cause collective ignorance, but it can generate polarized and even extremist thoughts, because it does not show people information beyond their way of thinking, this in the wrong hands can even implant ideas and beliefs in the collective thinking.

Plato's Cave 2.0

This is an age of great individualism and narcissism. We live in the marketplace of identities; vanity is what drives economies now. (...) The way we flirt now, by sharing images and impressions of ourselves online, is yet another way of expressing your personal identity. In the sexy panopticon of social media, (...) Our goal is to appear desirable to others rather than feel desire ourselves. Who can be expected to connect with someone else, to experience real passion under these conditions?

Digital narcissism and intimacy issues
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the mass fraudulence that social media has enabled—a fraudulence that erodes the borders of the self the more we try to shore it up through digital performance, making us vulnerable to influencers as well as ideology, and impeding our ability to form authentic human connections, if those even really exist.

As Mark Weiser wrote in 1993, “A good tool is an invisible tool… you focus on the task, not the tool.” Instead of  “Oh, a new Instagram notification,” the calm technology version would allow you to think, “I want to check in with my friends.”

A good tool is an invisible tool

“It’s this third person that’s not existed to any other generation,” she goes on. “Like, that”—she points at the camera, laughing. “It’s in your head all the time.” Lil Huddy agrees: “A lot of it comes from posting on social media. People let us know how dumb we look. . . . Their judgment gives us our own third-person judgment.”

According to “The D’Amelio Show,” Being…

Authenticity has been weaponized. It’s a term that’s really been abused. You can almost say today’s society is characterized by an authenticity-industrial complex. We’re more concerned with appearing real than being real.

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