

What factor contribute to feeling connected in social media and development of homophily? The feeling of wanting to be validated, most teenagers are not feeling love by parent, bore at home not having positive activities in keeping a young mind occupy with constructive behavior, lack of confidence, and the more likes, and positive comments a person receive on their post by followers create a stronger connection to social media. Like drugs many people are addictive to social media, the more people that have similarity or interest the harder it is to disconnect from social media. For example, study review that a Massive-Online Role-Play of games can connect strong interaction with others similar attraction of age group having experience in the real world or near (Future, 2017). Homophily is important in social media, so much so that it has predictive power over those needing to connect, interact, and share interest with others in commonalities (Bischoff, 2012).

How algorithms and cognitive biases can intensify homophily contribute to isolation? With high level of desire and the tendency of wanting to connect with others who have similar interests, value, and the same belief contribute to the intensifying homophily. A high-level use of algorithms in Social media create biases of intense risks when individuals engage media biased assimilate that rely on one opinion, where as individual gather information by making conclusions. Homophilous in media platform can create polarization that represents a personalized content in social media (Dandekar, Lee, and Goel, 2013).
The impact of polarization in social media homophily can increases the interaction with those who share similar` interest, which can be taken into extreme measure in wanting to be heard and expect others to follow. With the high-level use of social media technology has increase the expenditure in connecting with media online attraction and engagement easer, creating a high level of risk where individual information can be compromise and use by the wrong person. Our privacy can on longer be keep as confidential or respected, bullying, stolen identity can become hard to recover from (Caplinskas, 2015).

What constructive step people need to take to prevent the potential risk in the use of social media? We must create ways to secure ourselves form the risk against social media intruder who are searching for individual personal information. A major includes errors of clicking the wrong links, accidentally tweet, or unaware of sending the message to the wrong person, Phishing, leaving social media account unlock, these are mistake that many people make. Being vigilant with your information whether written, or picture posted is one way to protect against trolling and bullying on social media. Reacting to post, comments, on a posting that could have misinformation may create a threat everyone can read, see and respond to individual posting. Making sure to double check information for credibility, or facts before sending posting, check your social media blog regularly any misinformation that is being feed into your blog (Hootsuite, 2017).
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