Post by account_disabled on Feb 27, 2024 23:34:08 GMT -5
The founder of the Facebook network dreamed of connecting all people on the planet. But he did not take into account one simple factor - anthropogenic. Did not take into account the fact that a person in principle cannot communicate with a large number of people because there is a limitation laid down by nature itself. A few months ago, Facebook unveiled a map that showed that social media connections look a lot like the map of the Earth in the first pictures from the 1960s. The virtual map shows the connections in the world of Facebook friends - the number of which is approaching 700 million - in the form of rays of light. Threads as thin as a web connected all the big cities.
Cities shine like stars. No one has, but just Panama Phone Number imagine what the map would look like if you add Twitter users, whose number exceeded 300 million people last month. And all this happened in the last five years. There are 1 billion users; about villages where small groups of people live. Humanity lived like this until the 20th cent and who knows if they are actually related? By the way, the maximum number of friends on Facebook is 5 thousand, but there are no restrictions on the number of followers on Twitter. So what is the result? Are we creating some kind of Megamind by looking at this imaginary map and "frenching" everyone in a row? "Not so fast," says CNN journalist Chris Taylor.
A study published last month shows that digital tribalism (loyalty to one's own narrow circle of people) is alive and well even in the age of social media. The author is not talking about countries, corporations or sports teams, although they have already done enough. The author talks about tribes in the literal sense - about villages where small groups of people live. Humanity lived like this until the 20th century during almost the entire history. And we made such groups ourselves again - now virtually. Scientists from the University of Indiana gathered together the dialogues of 1,700,000 Twitter users over six months. In total, there were 380 million tweets. What did they want to know? They wanted to find out if these people were really connected by something. It should not be followers or retweeters, and it should not even be a simple transfer of a message with a "dog" to someone - no, how many real dialogues take place on Twitter, the scientists asked?
Cities shine like stars. No one has, but just Panama Phone Number imagine what the map would look like if you add Twitter users, whose number exceeded 300 million people last month. And all this happened in the last five years. There are 1 billion users; about villages where small groups of people live. Humanity lived like this until the 20th cent and who knows if they are actually related? By the way, the maximum number of friends on Facebook is 5 thousand, but there are no restrictions on the number of followers on Twitter. So what is the result? Are we creating some kind of Megamind by looking at this imaginary map and "frenching" everyone in a row? "Not so fast," says CNN journalist Chris Taylor.
A study published last month shows that digital tribalism (loyalty to one's own narrow circle of people) is alive and well even in the age of social media. The author is not talking about countries, corporations or sports teams, although they have already done enough. The author talks about tribes in the literal sense - about villages where small groups of people live. Humanity lived like this until the 20th century during almost the entire history. And we made such groups ourselves again - now virtually. Scientists from the University of Indiana gathered together the dialogues of 1,700,000 Twitter users over six months. In total, there were 380 million tweets. What did they want to know? They wanted to find out if these people were really connected by something. It should not be followers or retweeters, and it should not even be a simple transfer of a message with a "dog" to someone - no, how many real dialogues take place on Twitter, the scientists asked?
