1. Who is the subject, social media or us? It seems that social media gives users of every platform an opportunity to speak up, giving each of us the opportunity to become a subject. Under the model of algorithms and big data, we are shaped, manipulated and disciplined subjects. There doesn't seem to be a choice, it's like a Zizek joke: coffee or milk? Actually we need neither coffee nor milk, we need a free choice not a given. 2. Is it possible for us to discover the truth? Alan Badiou distinguishes between real and reality, but he admits that the two are intertwined and inseparable, so is it possible for us to truly discover reality under the model of social media algorithms? How can we tell the truth? 3. One of the biggest disadvantages of social media is that people mistakenly believe that their views are recognized by many people, creating an illusion of homogeneity, allowing many views and even false information to spread quickly and convince people. So, if social media is abandoned, will other things bring us biased communication? I think there are, such as books, but there is still a difference between books and social media. Books are like a person sitting in a Watching a movie in the room (assuming there is no comment, barrage mode), although some values, information, etc. in the movie will make him cognitive changes, but intellectual and logical thinking will still help him reason. But social media and other homogenized comments and feeds are like putting us in a virtual theater where an absurd drama is going on, no matter how absurd and unreasonable the values you receive, your "virtual companion" "People will approve of your idea and applaud in unison with you, and you will find that your idea is accepted by most people, whether it is true or not (because it is not important anymore) 4. Social media itself generates The purpose is to promote communication between people, get information quickly, and have equal rights to voice. But now social media has alienated itself, and we are swallowed up in the monsters we have created. As a vassal of capital, social media itself is for profit, and natural human beings have also become the object of its deprivation of surplus value and become a commodity (user/commodity) controlled by social media. 5. Is there any way we can escape the grip of social media? Postmodern philosophers often advocate difference and difference when they conceive the future society. Social media uses homogeneity to actually divide us. Can difference and heterogeneity save us? Can we reverse the direction of social media and move towards a different community? Or simply reject the giant device of social media, as Agamben advocates, perhaps the sin itself is not in the consequences and reality, but in the device that makes us distinguish-social media and the patterns behind it, in a different way. The return of rejection?
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