About Sophie

Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.

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Tag: social media

  • So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu…. to beyond the pale social media platforms.

    I left Xitter a long while ago, as it began descending into its current state. Now as “Meta” kowtow shamelessly, it’s goodbye to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads too. I never had significant content or presence on The Facebook, so no real loss. If your only internet presence is on facebook, then we’ll not be interacting.…

  • Algorithms Scraping at the Bottom Of The Barrel

    Sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram etc are driven by algorithms. These algorithms are generally opaque, often intrusive (in terms of the automated decisions they are making based on what is often extremely personal data), and rarely revealed publicly in any real detail. What all of these obscure algorithms appear to have in common, however,…