They talk about Justine and how her tweet about being a funny racist like South Park and the reason south park strives, but she claims it was a joke on the third world country which is still messed up.
"That was a social justice" the event when people all over Twitter attack one person over racist joke that wasn't even meant to be taken that way and she was fired because social media demanded it.
The talk show talks about a woman who tweets a racist joke and falls asleep on an international plane to wake up to her tweet trending all around the world. The show in a way defends her because they say she wasn't awake to explain herself to all the ruthless people that attacked her for this comment. As I don't agree with the racist joke because living in this world today that is not a joking matter, people are sensitive to what others say and do. I do feel bad for her because she received messages from virtual attackers that led her to delete and go basically off the grid and fired because social media said too. Social media shouldn't have an effect on what decision are made on employees.
Target would monitor what people would buy and a young teenage girl received a baby coupon sheet from Target which then lead the parents to figure out she is pregnant two weeks before she planned on telling them.
I feel like this is a breaking some type of law to be able to send a young girl baby coupons because she bought something from the store such as a pursue that can hold baby diapers. This led to the young girl being caught about being pregnant to her parents. If she is eighteen which I do not know if she is, Target should have made her aware of the coupons that appear in the mail. Target knew she was pregnant because of the algorithms created in the system to figure out what people do and by and be able to tell the future of their lives. Personal I do not want companies looking at me and looking into my "future" and knowing what I will need.
People make assumption on online profile and the algorithms that will learn something about a person in the future. This can cause someone to lose a job because they are predicted to be unreliable.
The algorithms are now being designed for companies to be able to go in to social media and predict what a perspective employee may be like in the future. Algorithms detect things off social media and that social media page can be totally different than what that person acts like in real life. Social media can be a way to expresses yourself or it can be a way used to hide from people of the outside world so you aren't ridiculed by what you said on Twitter or Instagram. It scares me to know that my job can lie in the hands of a computer for the stuff I like on social media which takes places outside of the work place. The woman who help create these algorithms even mentioned herself that she is scared of what this may do to the world and the jobs we get.
Our relationship with technology is strong and is relied on heavily today. People are being hired because they know how to work a computer; then the employer can just teach the routine on what he must do for that job with little knowledge of the information he is dealing with. My online life is something I do like to do. A phone, computer or any smart device helps update people with instant alerts to notify anyone at the exact moment it is happening. I do use my phone quite frequently; though I try not to use it all the time throughout the day. Taking breaks from the internet and social media apps are important to help see a different side of the world one where you are the judge of what is going on and you think how you feel not someone else. I think in a twenty-four hour day people are on their phones or any device roughly five to eight hours.
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