Interesting Social Media Manipulation

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Response to Michelle's questions

Mitchell’s Questions:

Do you think it is worse to be in complete disconnect with technology, or to be too connected with it to the point that you know nothing else? Why?

Personally, I could not imagine a world where I the only thing I knew was technology. If I were to choose, I would be completely disconnected wit technology. I enjoy personal time, something one would not get if they were constantly connected with technology (social scene). There is also always a security threat with technology that is always connected by hackers and other system failures.

What do you think is required to help people who are disconnected become more familiar and connected with technology?

Education. You need to find a means of communication for people who have a problem with technology and guide them through how to use it.

Is it necessary for us to try and bring technology to third world countries?

Bringing technology to third world countries may pose some problems. First, the learning curve will be a very difficult one if they have no technological proficiency or understanding. If they do find a way to adopt it and use it, if would definitely reap benefits. Water purification technology and medical technology, for example, would improve the way of life for the people in those countries if those technologies were provided.

Michelle’s Questions:

Ravi Agarwal states that, “[He has] been left resisting technology”. Do you think this will happen to more people as technology progresses, and do you think technology may, in some ways, be just a fad?

Michelle resists technology herself. The people who resist technology are the ones who don’t understand it. She sees more people liking technology and people are going to be forced to accept it. She doesn’t think it’s just a fad, and it will become more prominent. 

Q2) Agarwal said, “Though [technology] meant to provide answers to human problems, they created dominances and acquire the arrogance of being able to guide human density”. Thus far in our technological advancement, do you see technology creating more problems, or fixing more problems overall?

Michelle thinks, both. While its’ fixing a problem, new ones are created. There will always be a problem with something we create; it’s an ongoing cycle.

Q3) Do you think that there will be technology that will solve environmental problems in the near future? Will they be widely adopted? If not, what will prevent the adaptation of this kind of technology?

There defiantly will be technology to solve environmental problem. We use tech to create hybrids and solar panels, but were going to be using things that are not renewable to create them. 

4 Threat Matrix: A new social media app: Cyberterrorism

4 Threat Matrix: A new social media app: Cyberterrorism (EC)

How would the United States of America respond to a psychological attack by a terrorist group? I have personally seen psychological attempts on Facebook by radical individuals and groups revolving around politics and popular issues, but never by ‘terrorist’ organizations. The threats of the Muslim revenge attacks northeastern Indian people received was unlike any threat they’ve seen before, and without knowing any better, treated it as a completely legitimate threat without hesitation and fled. They viewed the altered photos and also took them as real photos, not having anything to compare them to for legitimacy (if there was a possibility to do so). One thing the article did not mention was the northeastern Indians’ technology proficiency. Depending on the level of technology literacy they had, could have changed the events that occurred. If northeastern India was using technology as we do in the US, they may have been able to determine that the claims were false, ignoring internal cultural differences.

Our communication abilities within the US are faster than ever and we receive information that is not always correct, and because of that, we check claims for accuracy and legitimacy. Websites are dedicated to fact-checking claims, and people are skeptical to a majority of information providers. Unlike India (as the article suggests), we are able to respond quicker to social media and information sources. Much difference is made between receiving information blindly and unable to respond, and being able to communicate with the sender. However, this could change if a threatening element was involved. It may have been the reflexive response to a threat that led the migration of 30,000 northeastern Indians, but such reflex, I do not believe, would affect the US. Based on opinion, it seems as if Americans are much more reluctant to change than other nationalities. Between that fact and our capability to cross reference information and communicate with information providers, the threat would diminish quickly if it were invalid.

Overall, there is no way in telling if this response in India to a psychological terrorist attack would be similar to the events elsewhere in the world. It may be a reality that we do see this attempt as technology increases at an exponential rate and terrorist’s messages reach further. Only time will tell.