One of the lessons I find it hard to wrap my head around is that life is not black and white. It’s grey. The internet encourages binary opinions. More discussion is created in tweets and Instagram captions if you can inspire strong aversion or rage. I recently learnt that Facebook (or Meta, are we calling it Meta yet?) gives five times the amount of value to an ‘angry’ reaction than to a ‘like’ reaction, showing that creating drama online literally gets more airtime.
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One of the lessons I find it hard to wrap my head around is that life is not black and white. It’s grey. The internet encourages binary opinions. More discussion is created in tweets and Instagram captions if you can inspire strong aversion or rage. I recently learnt that Facebook (or Meta, are we calling it Meta yet?) gives five times the amount of value to an ‘angry’ reaction than to a ‘like’ reaction, showing that creating drama online literally gets more airtime.