I have come to believe that the algorithmically curated personal feed should be illegal. It’s too powerful and we can’t handle it.
Any social network should either have:
a) One feed for everyone (like news website)
b) A personalized feed that only contains things you’ve explicitly subscribed to in chronological order. No recommendations allowed or suggestions of “you might also like”
Yes we’d still waste a lot of time online because there’s an infinite amount to see in these glowing little boxes. But at least we’d be in control and we’d stop letting these big companies have complete control over our emotions
Any social network should either have: a) One feed for everyone (like news website) b) A personalized feed that only contains things you’ve explicitly subscribed to in chronological order. No recommendations allowed or suggestions of “you might also like”
Yes we’d still waste a lot of time online because there’s an infinite amount to see in these glowing little boxes. But at least we’d be in control and we’d stop letting these big companies have complete control over our emotions