This is the link to the podcast on Spotify. You can also find the podcast Apple, Google podcast and YouTube under the name The Socially Distant Podcast and the episode for this class is #35.

This week was our final week of blog post and news articles. Its amazing how fast this semester really went and that we will all be home for Thanksgiving within the next couple days. This week my group gave our presentation and were the final group to do so. My group had the book “Information Wars” which talks about disinformation and how it has been used of the last couple of years or so. Disinformation has been used all over the world by ISIS and Putin and is not something that just happens in the United States. It has been used to pull in public support by using subjects that a good number of people are upset by and then turning them to make you look like the answer to your problems. Putin would even use it to cover his track when he was breaking treaties and had military presence in places that he shouldn’t of had. The books cover more of these cases of disinformation and gives you the real facts. These were topics we have sort of already covered and brought up the question of is their any real way to stop it from happening. I think the answer to this is no and it will always be their but we can limit its effectiveness by being vigilant about what is the truth and what isn’t.

We also had to watch a short video on the Social Media Therapy which is being used to help people limit their time spent on social media. Social media has become such a huge part of our lives and a good amount of our spare time is spent on social media. This has brought about many problems with more depression, negative body images, eating disorders, and anxiety. While these were around before social media they have become even more common for people to suffer from these and a lot of that comes from increased social media use. The problem comes from what people put on social media is only the things they want you to know or see about them and it never the pull truth about the person. There are then standards set in our minds of how to act, how to dress, what we should like, the right number of likes and so which then lead to people having all of these issues that can only be fixed by fixing your social media activity. We also read an article titled “Addicted to Distraction” which talks about how the internet has led to use being easily distracted. The author talks about how he struggled to read books any more and get easily distracted by the dumbest things that don’t even really matter. So he decides he going to starting limiting things in his life like sugar, alcohol, diet pop and the internet. He did fairly well with them all but the internet as the internet is just about everywhere you look. The only way he was really able to was to take a vacation and limit himself to only being able to sent text. This freedom from the internet allowed for his focus to return and he was able to start reading books again. I think this is something that would be great for everyone to do even just for a couple of days of having no internet to help reset your mind in a way.

We also talked about generations and the names they are given and how they are all shaped by what happens to them in their younger years. We were then tasked to come up with 5 things we like and dislike about our generation. My generation would be Generation Y or Generation Z depending on where you look and who you talk too with me being born in the year 1999. 5 things I like are that we tend to be more open/ accepting of others, open/adaptive to change, doing the task tends to be more important then the time spent on it, more willing to listen to others, and like to speak up for what we believe in. 5 things I dislike are we are too dependent on our phone/technology, let social media control us, we look up to celebrities’ too much, share too much personal information on social media, and we tend to worry too much about what others think about us.

News Article

This article talks about ways to help yourself in controlling your time spent on social media.

https://www.lifehack.org/594793/how-to-declutter-your-social-media-life-for-better-productivity

This week we had an interesting black mirror episode called “White Christmas” which shows us some new technologies being used. It starts off with Matt Trent talking with Joe Potter about what he did on his spare time. Matt helped men who were uncomfortable talking to women by having them wear an ear piece and glasses so he could see what they saw. He would use what the other person was seeing to read how the person they were talking to reacted so he could figure out the best way for the dude to talk to them and end up taking them home. The guy he was helping ends up being successful and ends up going to this women’s house where the women ends up killing the guy and herself and Matt and his team end up deleting the video and any proof that they saw it happen. This then leads to Joe sharing his story. Joe talks about his struggles with his ex girlfriend. Joe was taking out the garbage when he finds a positive pregnancy test and then confronts his girlfriend about it. She doesn’t want to keep the child where he does and they get into an argument and she blocks him. Everyone has a chip or lenses on that allow them to block certain people and then they cant hear them or see them they just be come blurred. His girlfriend the next morning end up leaving him. Joe then sees her out many months later and only recognizes her because she is blurred out and now very pregnant with their child but she still wants nothing to do with him. Joe knows that she goes to her fathers cabin every year for Christmas and goes so that he can see his child but when someone has you blocked you are also blocked by their offspring. He does this every year and finally see from the blurred image that he has a daughter. Then tragically one day his ex dies in a train crash and the blocker is removed after death so he can finally go see his daughter. He goes to the cabin with a snow globe for his daughter but the grandfather tells him to get out and that he cant be apart of his daughters life. Joe then irritate hits him in the head killing the grandfather and then leaving only for his daughter to find him and go out looking for help and freezing to death. This all happens inside a fake mind imprisonment of sorts where time moves very fast to trick the people inside. This allowed for joe to be convicted of the crimes and for Matt to be able to walk free for his help. Matt is allowed to walk but is but down as a sex offender and then blocked by everyone.

This episode bring up some very interesting technology that could be very possible in the next couple of years. The blocking technology would be very interesting to see how it would play out and the effects it would have on people because you could have no idea who that person is and you would never really be able to find out. While the mind prison could work very well at getting people to confess to crimes that they have committed without having to put a whole lot of time into it. I think if that was something that became available to be very helpful for that reason and then also helping people get over traumatic experiences. Then having the ability to have someone be blocked by everyone in society could either lead to them changing their ways because they are unable tell who is who or doing even worse thing because they don’t know who they are effecting so then it bothers them even less.

An article we read this week called “Emojis Don’t Mean What they Used to” which talks about the evolution of the emoji. Emojis when they first came out were simple pictures used to express a certain way you felt about something and depending on the context meant different things. The article talks about the snowman emoji which could simple mean something about a snowman but could also mean that a person is cold or that it might snow today depending on how it was used. Now there are thousands of emojis will the ability to change the skin color to make it more universal and make everyone feel included. This has lead to emojis having more of a literal meaning and only really being used for the way they were intended as a snowman just being a snowman. While I think this is true for most there will always be the one that have double meanings or that get used to mean different things depending on the context. Have you ever received emojis in a text message or sent them and have them be interpreted in a completely different way then they were suppose to be? Sort of like this picture below.

News Article

This article talks about the evolution of the emoji from where it started to where it is now.

https://www.wired.com/story/guide-emoji/

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The internet has become a place full of different knowledge and some of that being good and some being bad. It also a place where anything can be posted and shared will millions of people all around the world in a matter of minutes. Sometimes we just scroll through social media giving out likes and retweets or shares with out really looking deeply or at all into what the post really is. This leads to a lot of misinformation or fake news being spread and then no one looks into where the information is coming from and how creditable that source may be. This has lead to many problems in recent years with stories that either don’t have the full truth or are just running off of what some random person wrote to just get some likes and shares. While most of this blame fall on the news media for not trying to find the whole truth and even looking into see if there is any truth to what is being said. The other falls onto us and making sure that we hold the media accountable to telling the truth and not waiting to be the first to publish a story to get an advantage and get more views to make money on something that isn’t even true. We also have to make sure we fact check and do our own research into topics before we share something so that we know for ourselves if its truthful or not.

This is talked about in the article “Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?”. This article that we read this weeks talks about the Boston Bombing that happened during the Boston Marathon that happened just a couple of years ago. The police released a rough looking picture of the two suspects of the bombing. During this time and prior to the bombing the Tripathi family was looking for there 22 year old son who had gone missing from Brown University. The family made a website dedicated to finding their son that showed pictures and messages from loved ones hoping for his safe return. Then a little after the pictures of the suspects was posted a Reddit user put an image of Sunil Tripathi, the missing son, and suspect number 2 and commented on how much they looked a like. Then after just a few hours the family started to receive hateful messages and then someone random account tweeted that the Boston police had indicated Sunil as the second suspect over the scanner. This misinformation then spread like wild fire being retweeted or the information being tweeted our by popular accounts getting thousands of retweets and this lead to even more hate. This then lead to the family taking down the website and this lead to more speculation that taking down the site meant that Sunil was the second suspect but in reality the family didn’t want him to see the hateful messages and go even further away. Taking down the site lead to even more hateful messages all caused from a reddit post and an uncreditable tweet that should of never effected the family had anyone done a little more digging.

Two more article we read “6 Reasons Why Revenge Porn Is Really F*cked Up” and “The Humiliation of Katie Hill Offers a Warning” which talk about revenge porn and how its kind of become a norm of the internet era. Revenge Porn which most of the time is videos or pictures that were taking with or without consent then being posted to the internet with out the consent of the people in the videos. I think this is something that needs to be dealt with and the posting of such content should not be allowed unless consent if given in person from all parties involved in the video or pictures. The articles also talks about how most of the time nothing ever happens to people who share the videos or pictures but nothing ever happens to the website that they are posted too. Then for someone to get the video or pictures down from the site they have to pay a fee. I think its ridiculous that the website that has the videos or pictures can’t be forced to take them down when found to be revenge porn and that they charge the victims fees to do it. This is something that needs to be looked into and change as soon as possible because no one deserves to have that done to them. Do you think that consent should be need from all parties in the videos or pictures for them to be posted online by websites or journalist?

News Article:

With most of the articles this week focusing on the bad spread of news and pictures on social media. I figured my news article this week would cover what LIVE:PD has done to help finding missing children. They do a segment on missing children looking for tips from views on there children which has lead to many families being reunited with there missing loved ones.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-girl-missing-2016-found-safe-tip-tv/story?id=54082171

This week was a weird class where we didn’t actually meet on our usually Wednesday afternoon on zoom. We did have some very interesting articles to read and video to the watch. The one I think really focuses on a problem is the TED talk “The Filter Bubble”. In the TED talk Eli Pariser talks about Facebook and algorithm that have been put in place. These algorithms choose what you see on your Facebook feed based on what you clicked on, what posted you liked, what pages you follow and it then uses all this information to recommend new pages or people and to decide what to show you on your feed. Eli goes to talk about his own experience with this algorithm. He talks about have he liked to follow both republicans and democrats so that he could see both view points and stay informed on different topics because no one talks about the same thing. Eli then explained that he started to notice that his feed was pretty much of the democrat view points and this happened because the algorithm saw that he was clicking on way more of the democrat friends links then the republican so it decided he didn’t want to see them any more and basically cut them out of his feed. Eli then talks about how Facebook isn’t the only one doing this but so is companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Huffington post, and others. Now I do think this is a good thing for companies like Netflix and Amazon where you want to see things of you taste or that you would be interested in and it creates more personalization. With places like Google and Huffington post these are places where people go to find information and personalizing these causes people to miss out on important information and be less informed unless they dig deep. These algorithms have to help people stay informed by making sure things that are important and current stay on peoples feeds even if they don’t fit to what they normally like or click on and by not doing this we are just hurting ourselves by keep people less informed about events that could have a great affect on our lives and others and just letting them see cat videos all day.

Two article that we read ” Essena O’Neil Quits Instagram” and “A follow Up to That” talk about an Australian Instagram model/influencer. People like this have really taken off and have found an pretty easy way to go make money through sponsors once they have thousands of followers. Essena comes out and talks about her own experience with this and how companies will pay for the clothes you wear and then you just spend your day doing photo shoots for Instagram pictures. Some of these pictures are then edited or the pose that you use alter the look of your body to make you fit that ideal standard. This then becomes a toxic environment where people see these post and think they need to look like the model/influencer to be accepted by society when these aren’t really achievable standards. Essena has come out and quit all social media for this reason and has been trying to get rid of the idolization of something that is not really and cant really be achieved.

I think both of these are sort of tied together because with the filter bubble its all about getting you to see things that you want to see and with Instagram it is about making your photos to what people want to see so you can maximize follows and likes and therefore make more money. To do both of these you have to sort of trick the users into thinking they are seeing the different people and pages they follow equally when the user is only seeing what the algorithm or the model/influencer want them to see. With just that slight change things that are of high importance that everyone should know about are not see and go unnoticed because of that. Do you agree with Eli and Essena that there has to be change with social media and even just the internet to allow people to see real life and be more informed?

News Article

This article talks about peer influence and the effect of likes on a post like Instagram have on the teenage brain.

With the internet and smartphones becoming a huge part of our daily lives. You can find just about anything you want with a quick search or say what ever you like for the whole world to see. Sometimes this is not the best thing though as there is a lot of disinformation out there or just completely wrong. People have always manipulated information to get the outcome that they desire from just taking a small clip of a video that shows what you want it to show but it is not the whole truth and the same is done in some studies where they can manipulate the data to get what they want. So when looking a information you have to make sure that it is the whole truth and not being manipulated to fit the argument. To do this you have to be willing to dig a little deeper and do your own research on the topic or look for more articles on the topic and see if they all have the same information. Sometimes you can pull facts from all the articles and then ignore the information that was manipulated and then be able to put the whole story together yourself. With information at the tips of our finger and on just about every social media app you’re starting to see a lot of fake information and its just a lot easier to find and we have to be more careful what we take to be true. We then have to do our own research and make sure what we are reading is true.

We also read an article called “Longtime NBC reporter quits”. In this article ex NBC reporter William Arkin talks about why he quit. He talks about how the media has become obsessed over everything that Trump does and that all media does not really report a lot on other important information. This has become true since Trump announced he was running for president and since then you can’t watch the news without there being something on the President. From either his tweets or just something that he said there will be something reported on it no matter how small of a thing it is like him saying what he just had for lunch. Now a lot of people say any publicity is good publicity. For Trump this means he really doesn’t have to pay a lot of money for ads as the new stations pretty much do it for him for free and he is in the news every day which works in his favor. This reporter got tired of that and wants to make change and report on more things then what is Trump doing today.

In class this week we had a presentation on the book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. This book talked about how teens are starting to come in contact with technology from a younger age and the effects of this. Much like the last presentation teens are more trusting and don’t really know what to share and what not to share. They also don’t really have a idea of what is right and wrong and how dangerous things that they post can be to themselves or the effect it can have on them in the future. I think you’re starting to see this more now when people get drafted in the sports world and someone goes and finds an offensive post that they made when they were in their teens. This then causes some negative press for the player or if found before they are drafted ends up hurting their draft stock. Sometimes it does not have to even be a tweet but just a video that someone has of you like what happen to Laremy Tunsil who had a video of him smoking a gas mask bong posted online right before the start of the draft which most likely caused him to drop in the draft. This come with question when is a teen ready to have social media and a smartphone where sharing things is super easy and can get you in a lot of trouble. When were you allowed to have your first smartphone and social media? Do you see this being the same for your kids in the future?

News Article:

This article talks about the affects of social media and the smartphone. I thought it was a good article to think about with the discussion this week being on teens and their social lives. It talks about how the common way to talk with a lot of people is on the phone and not in person and how this is affecting teens.

This week we watched a documentary on a company called Napster. Napster was a MP3 file sharing company where users could share any music they had with music other people had. This allowed for people to not pay for each individual CD or record to have access to the music they wanted. This in turn made a lot of record companies and artist mad about lost profit and felt they were being shorted money. Napster was really a head of its time and really kind of set the start of the trend of social media and other music apps like spotify. Now there is so many different way to get music that you either pay for a membership to the service or you can just download them for free from somewhere and it is not really to hard to find. Napster just put all of this into one service where you could physical see how many people and how much music was being traded back and forth. The real problem began when people started trading unreleased music which was hard to do before the internet and this was really the first time something like this could be done but now you see unreleased music being leaked all of the time. This all comes down to copyrights and what is allowed and what isn’t. With music I feel it is very hard to tell people they can’t trade music with each other because people are always looking for a way to save money and still get things they want and trading music is one of the ways to do that. When its comes down to people pirating the music this is wrong because no one has payed for that copy to the music so you shouldn’t be able to trade that music.

I think something that was not talked about in the documentary is how the music industry has started to change in recent years and artist are starting to come at the record labels because of how much money they make off of the artist and how much control they get of the music. Artist want to have as much freedom as possible when making music and also want to make tons of money just like every person would want to do. Record companies then become the middle man and end up taking a good amount of money and own the copyrights to the music which helps them keep artist under control. This is the reason why you have started to see successful artist start there own record label companies like Jay-Z, Kanye, and Eminem along with others to give artist more control. The documentary also talked about a band that had only played on the east coast and had 500 to 700 people and then go to play at a college on the west coast and have thousands of people there who knew the lyrics to every song. These people knew of the band through Napster and without it they never would of had as big of a turn out. This shows how great something like Napster is for a up and coming artist or band and not having to go through a record label would allow for them to make even more money off of sales.

We also read an article about South Park and them being sued for copyright infringement for an episode they aired. This episode showed a parody of a YouTube video call “What what in the butt” that lasted around a minute in a 25 minute episode. The fact that it was a parody and did not last for a substation time comedy central won the lawsuit and this set a precedent for what is allowed with a copyright. There is a lot of different parody accounts that make funny videos about popular songs and movies. Myself and my friends from high school use to watch these parody videos all of the time and would get enjoyment out of them and would then listen to actual songs. When people do stuff like this they are looking to just get a laugh and mean no harm and most of the time people hear the parody and then want to listen to the actual song. This in turn brings more people to listen to the actual artist music. So my friends and I use to listen to parodies from Rucka Rucka Ali on YouTube. Did you ever listen to these parodies or any others?

News Article:

This article talks about reasons why artist are starting their own record labels or becoming indie artist where they make more money and have more creative freedom. This is having an effect on record labels companies and is changing the music industry.

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/ditto-music-lee-parsons-interview-749510/

The internet has become a very big and vast space where you can find just about anything you want. In the U.S. there really is about no limits for what you can find on the internet ranging from cat memes to political information to porn. The internet really is the greatest source of information and pleasure that you will find right at the tips of your fingers. This is not the case for all places though. When you go to places like China, Egypt, and many other countries where there freedom of speech is limited. These countries are most of the time always looking to block an sort or activism that will cause there government to collapse and the people in power to fall out of power. This is all talked about in the article “The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism” where the author talks about how the internet works and how to best create activism and how some places are trying to stop it. He talks about how the internet started as a place for people to share research papers and things of that nature but quickly has become a place to allow for people to share cute cat pictures. Now while a lot of the internet now has become memes there is still a lot of important information and activist that use it do get their cause out there and then get support.

He also talks about the best way to know if your website is getting to the masses is first you see porn being posted and shared then to know you’ve made it big activist start to make post. The porn idea also ties a little bit into this weeks book review about sexting. Even though the book focused on the idea of consent and sexting of younger teens and how its become more and more popular so does porn and things of that nature. Now with teens it really comes down do you trust that person to keep those things private and to their eyes only. Then as adults you should always keep that type of stuff private cause your old enough and mature enough to do so and know the effects of stuff like that getting out but when you are younger you don’t really think about those types of things. I think todays culture and thoughts towards things like sex work and people using there bodies to make money has changed dramatically and with sites like only fans you see a lot more post that could be considered porn to promote or just put online because people will share just about anything now a days. I think this is way porn is usually a good assessment of making it on a small scale because people wouldn’t post those sorts of things if they didn’t know that it was going to get view and shared by tons of people to either help them gain followers or just get noticed by more people. The next comes the activist which a lot of that goes hand in hand with cancel culture that we talked about a few weeks ago and just how big that has become and how they will get there word out anywhere they can that has a big audience for views and then shares on top of that. So once you get these two pretty big crowds of people you are doing a pretty good job. I think all of this can be seen on Twitter which really went through these steps and has really taken off as a social media platform these last couple of years. Then you have people that just make there own memes where they share just about anything that make ranging from animals to just funny pictures with just about anything on them.

Another article we read this week “10 Twitter Hashtags that Changed the way we Talk About Social Issues” which talks about different hashtags that were used and how many times they we used. The top three hashtags were #Ferguson with 27,200,000, #LoveWins with 12,800,000 and #BlackLivesMatter with 12,000,000. These were all very big issues but all very different from one another and just shows you how much activism is happening on twitter and how many different people have used just those 3 hashtags. Have you participated in using any of these 3 hashtags or any of the others mentioned in the article?

News Article:

This article is a fact check and also talks about different things that were talked about during the Vice Presidential Debate held last week on October 7th.

The Black Mirror episode this week “Hated in the Nation” it brings up something that over the last couple of years and the blow up of social media. This being what we like to call as cancel culture. It shows individuals that have done things deemed to be unliked or hated by most of society. In the episode people are posting to a social media site like twitter where you’re able to post pictures, videos, hashtags, and reply to other peoples post. Then someone makes a post called Game of Consequences where people use the #Deathto with a persons name. Then the name with the most hashtags dies after 5pm each day and then the game resets after each day and you’re able to pick a new target. Now while post of the people doing these post did not know that these people were being killed they were still participating in it and it was the gang mentality of targeting someone who did something you did not like from a take in a news article to posing in a picture to look like they were peeing on a war monument. These two acts sparked a rage among people and they went all out on belittling and using the hashtags on these people who ended up being killed because of it. While cancel culture now a days does cause the person to be killed but pretty much does the same thing from getting a person fired from their job, losing draft position or not even being drafted in sports, and to just everyone knowing you name and face and you not being able to do anything in your life because no one wants to hire you.

We later discover that the people who were killed due to the hashtag were just collateral damage as those who participated in the game of consequences were the real targets. The person wanted to eliminate all those who had participated in the game and were spreading hate toward that person. This ended up killing thousands of people. I also thought it was interesting that robot bee were used to do the killing when something like those could be used in real life. The talk just a few years ago was that bees were possibly going to go extinct and if that does ever happen maybe robot bees are the solution to that problem. The way cancel culture has taken off I could see something like this happening in real life where someone creates a game like the game of consequences and a mass majority of people would participate. Then the person behind the game could use the robot bees to do the killing and then turn everything around just like in the Black Mirror episode.

We then read “How the Internet Created an Age of Rage” which talks about how with the internet the ability to either hide behind a computer or just an anonymous name has allowed people to just post hateful comments on or about anything they do not like. This article talks about stand up comedian Stewart Lee and just all the hateful tweets or post that people make about him and Lee said he would look at these and then try and make more jokes like the ones that were pissing people off. I think this goes for a lot of what comedians do where they talk about topics that people are sensitive about or do not really wanna talk about and then make jokes about them. I think comedy is suppose to do that its suppose to make things that are hard for people to talk about and do it in a jokingly manor to kind of ease the tension around the subject. Now with cancel culture I think there is some good about it where is someone is being openly racist toward anyone or doing things that are deemed completely wrong by all of society then they should be canceled. Context does also matter just like in anything like how old is whatever people are mad about because times change and people are allowed to change as well and that all has to be considered. A recent example would be with Jimmy Fallon when people were trying to get him canceled for a skit he did on Saturday Night live I believe in the early 2000s were he did black face. This was the 2000s where this did occasionally happen and it was on Saturday Nigh live where the script and everything of that nature is looked at and okay by higher ups in the show and it was allowed to happen. Now if that happened today where something like that is not socially expectable then I would be all for it. There is also a lot a negatives and they way I look at things is if it does not personally affect you or if you don’t like what someone is doing then do not pay attention to them and go watch someone or something else. Are you someone who just looks the other way or do you run with mob and become apart of cancel culture?

News Article

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/08/us/2019-canceled-stories-trnd/index.html

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