Trapped in the Feed: The Personality You Didn’t Choose

Social media has surely evolved quite a lot in the past decade. It has also taken a lot of importance as well as the influence that it has on our life has become really in mens as well as the involvement of social media in the decision making of awards is also something that we cannot completely rule out today because most of the things that we see on social media as well as everything on line in general is something that is created for our self and that is done through a lot of mathematical systems that we have been designed to be seeing which is also known as the algorithm itself.

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Algorithms of the social medias and also everything that we consume online has influenced us to do a lot of things that we might have never done and that is what the immense influence of algorithms on our life is all about as well as it races a question on our personality itself if the personality that we are having is something that is original to us or is something that we have programmed to become which we might have never done.

There are many behaviours that we are following just because of the algorithm, as it is making us do many things that we might not have done otherwise, and also making us have a different set of beliefs. Many of those things are being done just to target us to become relevant customers for those particular companies or whatever they want us to believe in.

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Initially it was thought that the social media algorithms that are been developed is just because for a bit of more efficiency for the content that we are consuming as well as also helping us find more relatable thing as well as for creators it is also going to be maximizing their engagement as it would be helping them find the relevant audience but slowly the usage of algorithms by huge companies has become a little bit different and it has made all of this a thing that is much more different than a tool for our convenience.

The algorithm today is also having a very big influence on shaping our psychology as if we are looking at a particular content and if we interact with it we are supposed to be getting more of the similar kind of content and that similar content is going to be have in a impact on our brain as slowly we are going to be having a different perception about that particular content as well as it is going to be growing into some really big thing into our psychology as well and this is the exact thing which companies are exploiting by trying to promote what they want us to be consuming.

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There is a lot of emotional manipulation that is also happening through all of these social media algorithms, as you would notice it online when you are going to be consuming content that can be targeted to provoke certain emotions, which can involve anger or even fear. All of this does push us towards getting more emotionally driven and becoming a little bit more extreme to be much more similar to these emotional states that are being witnessed b,y which we impact the original emotional state as well as the way we react to certain things.

Algorithms are also used towards polarising a certain kind of thought process as well as ideology because if we are interacting with the certain kind of ideology we are going to be witnessing similar of the same ideology and will be listening or able to see very less of the opposition that is going to be making a stay in a bubble and also not having us that opportunity that we can be also having a very fast kind of view about things and this is also use to be polarizing a certain point of view and this is something that is involved in a lot of politics as well through these algorithms.

All in all these things play a very big roll in shaping or personality in a very different manner as well as it can also have a very big impact towards changing our existing personality to a very different thing and that has been prone via many studies as well which has tune that all of these things definitely can impact our perception about things and also shift due to these things that are been constantly served to us.

Algorithms or something that are the fundamental base of modern internet as you can see it almost everywhere right from social media to even the simple web pages that we are surfing and that is what is making us loose a lot of free will from our side because we are consuming content on internet which is being served to us and we are supposed to be consuming what is being served to as rather than us being the person who is going to be choosing every time about what we are supposed be consuming.

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