This week’s blog has revealed a new dark side of the technology and the social media. The episode of the Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation. The articles and other material all have given so much to think about.
Starting from the Black mirror episode, this episode brings forward the darkest face of the technology that cruel it can be. In the start of the episode Jo Power, a journalist was shown who was having so much negativity and death threats on the social media platforms right after publically lambasting a disability rights activist recent self-immolation. And then we have all seen how she killed herself. Then in the whole of the episode this hashtag game started and people without knowing the consequences about what they are voting for bring the lives of people to an end. Surprisingly, the device that is used for the killing purpose are the Autonomous Drone Insect (ADI), which are created to replace the extinct bee population. Later it turned out that they were locally hacked and all the deaths were made because of the voting people have made online. And in the end people who voted for #DeathTo all got killed and in this way more than 380,000 people were got killed because of the misuse of the social media platform.
Watching this episode made me feel like we are not far from this sort of future if we keep on going like this. I wanted to ask you all what are your thoughts about this episode? Do you see this coming in the near future?
After reading the article “How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet”, I again felt so bad that what people have started doing. Can’t they just see how badly they are behaving. Troll is the term used for fishing method online thieves used to find their victims. Many of the cases are mentioned there where many of the people who tried to do something different would end up getting the online threats of death, rape and doxing threats. It has been mentioned in the article that ““Trolls are portrayed as aberrational and antithetical to how normal people converse with each other. And that could not be further from the truth,”. Why people do not see that what their words can do to a person? Why we find it easy to make a comment on a person on any of the social media without thinking about the consequences?
In the next of the article, “How the Internet Created the Age of Rage”, again this article talked all about the people who comment ill while hiding themselves behind the screens. The article was full of examples where people through their comments are spreading the hate and psychologist says this is some sort of mental disorder that make people do stuff like this while hiding their own personalities. I think the excess use of technology have made people so involved in that they no longer know what humanity use to be like. People or should I say the social media people are left with no human feelings at all.
Again, I raise a question here that who is responsible for all of this at first place? What make people so upset and so full of hate that they can find no place but the internet to troll on? Is this every going to stop somewhere?
For this week’s news article, which I found very much authentic to the topic of how social media is spreading more hate than love and is covering the current scenario of the global pandemic we all are facing.
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Hi! to answer your question, yes I do feel as though that if we keep on this path with social media then it will lead down a road of destruction and chaos.. not to be dramatic or anything LOL. And I feel as though that because they have that screen blocking them from reality, they cannot see the repercussions that it causes unlike if they were too physically see it. I think everyone should be nicer and to think before posting anything because it is sad to see situations unfold onto other people. Technology and social media gives people the platform but society creates the content so I feel as though responsibility is at both ends.
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