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Ep. 195: Deep Walks

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Can We Get Rid of This in Social Media?

Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are using complex algorithms to show users what they want. The result is a complicated play where we no longer understand how it shows us what it shows us. In the early days of these algorithms, when people could like and things could be shared, you had this much more unpredictable and unstable environment of feedback. And that was very adictive, like, our people gong to like this? Our companies aren't going to get away with this. Is fantically more profitable for services all the time because they are perfectly optimized so as not to get too much attention from their users.

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