How Algorithm Recommendation Is Brainwashing People
After the rise of the internet, the rise of smartphones happened, and then the rise of social media. Almost every smartphone user has a social media account. Previously, social media weren't that advanced. They were just a digital place where people get to know other people all over the world, share pictures, talk with them, etc. And to find someone they had to search for the exact names. Then hashtags came into a trend that is still in trend. An easy way to generalize content as well as promote it on a selected label or category. Then, without people's realization Recommendation algorithm was introduced which created a revolution in social media platforms. Pages, Videos, and content started booming like crazy.
But few people realize that these recommendation algorithms are brainwashing people without even letting them know about it.
How Does It Work?
It's simple you watch one piece of content and get recommended same type of content in every social media in the form of videos, posts, reels, shorts, ads, etc. The recommendation algorithm was already there in Google but social media platforms are using it to an extreme level.
Nowadays if you even accidentally clicked or opened a link of someone shaking their hips, lol your feed will be filled with them.
How It's Brainwashing?
As much as people like social media, tell me what do you feel watching those reels or TikToks nowadays which are a trend?
You watch one, then two then ultimately watch them for an hour. You lose any interest and idea you had with that entertainment dose.
If you search about anything you get recommended with it for the rest of the days, unless you search something different. This can be a good thing but eventually it turns out bad. We feel like the algorithm is so smart it's showing us what we want but after sometime it only shows that type of content.
Also the recommendation algorithm is mostly inclined to entertainment, politics industry, propoganda promotion etc. It doesn't promote or recommed contents with real truth. Tell me how many Bitcoin Cash videos have you been recommended and compare it with Bitcoin. You will see the difference. Few may say what's more searched is more recommended but I search about Bitcoin Cash at least once daily and I rarely get recommendation of anything BCH related thing but the algorithm should feed me more with it since I am searching about it a lot but no it's inclined to different approach, probably inclined to propaganda.
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Final Thoughts
Also, I haven't talked about the brainwashing done by reels and TikTok videos. We can't ignore the fact that everyone wants to become a star nowadays. There's no actual interest in teenagers to do something different in real life because they are easily brainwashed by watching reels where people don't give a shit about responsibility and share what they like what they think is right no matter how bad influence it can give to teenagers.
Rest, beware of being brainwashed by recommended algorithm where the contents you consume are mostly filled with propaganda.
Don't accept anything in social media without cross checking it at many sources and especially from people with proper backgrounds, not with one night and one trending video experts and influencers.
If the algorithm will send me ways on how to earn in different platforms, I favor it. It really take some hours of ours to watch videos, short videos nowadays.