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Course: Social media literacy > Unit 3
Lesson 3: What is artificial intelligence and how do social media companies use it?Reflection activity: Your experiences with algorithms
What world is social media showing you?
Reflection activity
🤔 CONSIDER:
Take another look at your favorite social media app.
- Keeping in mind what you have learned about algorithms, what do you notice about what your feeds are showing you?
- Why do you think the algorithm decided to show you what it did?
Want to join the conversation?
I see a lot of influencers(3 votes)- I watch an influencer often on Youtube, and they show up very often on my homepage(3 votes)
- my hobbies or things I like usually show up.(2 votes)
- i see a lot of people trying to influence the good(2 votes)
my 'fyp' is just people getting hit by trucks. Does that mean i like watching people die or get hospitalized?😭(1 vote)- meow meow meow meow meow meow meow(1 vote)
- real ah jittleyang? or fuhuhalatoogen?(1 vote)
1. What I notice about the feeds that are showing is when I look and like it or go to more they going to show more often.
2.What I think the algorithm decide to show what I did is they want you took look at more of what your seeing and get you on your phone longer.(1 vote)- Their algorithms work so nicely. When I use one of app just watching post for some seconds.
App start to recommend similar posts until I ignore.(1 vote) 
1. What I notice about what my feeds are showing me is that it is content that I would like to look at for example lets say that you look at some cooking videos so YouTube would start suggesting those videos to you.
2. The reason why the algorithm would show cooking videos after watching a few of those videos is because they want you to keep watching the videos they want you to on their platform for longer and longer periods of time.(1 vote)