
ACFM Trip 35: The Internet
Novara Media
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The Problem With Twitter
Facebook's algorithm was not so sophisticated and it kept making this mistake to me and my friends who are at the time you're talking about the Egyptian revolution. It kept giving us content ads to do with like Islamic dress but I'm not a big fan of religion at all. Twitter has became this sort of you know cacophonous public sphere in which people were mostly talking about public issues rather than personal issues. Facebook finds out more about you than most your close friends know about that's what they say. The French minutel system predated the internet and still ended up with porn and and sex hook-up pages pretty sure it's one of the drivers of technology.
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