This week we talked about about social connects and how the internet has lead to people feeling more connected with people that are either strangers or that they hardly know but yet they feel close to each other. This might be one of the better things about the internet and social media allowing for those that have never meet each other in real life feel like they really know each and to connect with people who have similar interest. This is touch in the article “Social Networks vs. Online Community” which breaks down social media sites into the two categories social networks and online communities and tell you which each one is and how they differ and what there best use is. Your social networks consist of people you personally know and usually see on a daily basis. Do to this not every person know all the same people so each social network is different for each person. Much like myself and my friends back home generally all hangout with the same people when back home but no of us go to the same college so we all have different social networks when away from our hometowns. Then online communities are composed of people from all over that have a similar interest from old cars to knitting and most of these people have never meet in real life but are able to talk with each other about there common interest and ask for help with any problems they may be facing.

While I am not apart of online communities that you usually think of through Facebook I would consider some different pages that I follow on Instagram to sort of be considered online communities. One of the pages would be thebuffalofanatics this page is always posting constant updates about the Buffalo Bills and is just a place to be able to see daily information on what’s going on the with the organization and how they feel about certain moves made by the bills or that other teams within the NFL. If I choose to I could reach out and talk with other bills from all over the world but I usually just use it to see what they post and that about all that my interaction with the page is.

We also watched the Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back” which shows a scary realty that we were well could see at one point in the future. This episode show Martha who ends up losing her husband Ash in a car accident and just like any person would be with a sudden loss of a loved one is very upset and is having a hard time it. Ash had a constant present on social media just like almost everyone today. With advanced technology Martha was able to talk to a computer that used her husbands social media post to develop a mind of its own and talk to her in a way that Ash would of. It then gets ever creeper with when Martha goes even further and has a copy of her husband made. At first she is happy because it feel like she got her husband back but after a while she starts to realize the human emotions that weren’t displayed online really aren’t there and she realizes she has to end her connection with it to be able to move on.

This episode sort of reminded me of cloning and how it could become very possible in the future but hasn’t really be looked into due to ethical issues. While being able to get someone back you loss would be nice and might help you get over the loss initially. Once you start to realize that it might not act the same as whoever you loss you start to remember that they are really gone and you’ve been living a fake life with someone who really doesn’t exist then you have to go through that hurt all over again and then would that really be worth it. If clone became a thing would you get a loved one you lost cloned so you could spend more time with them.

News Article

This article talks about the possibility of making human clones and the difficulties that would come along with it if people were really serious about wanting to make human clones.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ethics-of-human-cloning-scientific-progress-2020-7