Social Media

Clustering of Twitter data with Python, K-Means, and t-SNE — In the article “What People Write about Climate” I analyzed Twitter posts using natural language processing, vectorization, and clustering. Using this technique, it is possible to find distinct groups in unstructured text data, for example, to extract messages about ice melting or about electric transport from thousands of tweets about…

A scam known as “pig butchering” is targeting social media and dating site users — First observed in the underworld of China, this attack vector gets its name from the process of fattening up a pig and then butchering it. Targeted individuals are initially contacted via social media, where their attackers gradually build relationships with them and gain their trust. …

Many call it a tale of modern-day slavery — Some celebrities like Ethan Hawke and Jude Law had affairs with their children’s nannies. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with a nanny, and some even married their nannies like Robin Williams. Life happens. But when it comes to Filipino nannies, it’s a different story. Many end up abused by their…

When you hear “social media”, which platform comes first in your mind? Of course, we’re thinking about a few companies, who won the attention competition. Because when a user chooses platform, it’s not about the resource. He actually pays for them with his attention. In marketing, it’s called attention economy. Social media is one of the mandatory part of almost every human…

We live in an age of extreme individualism, which is frankly kind of dangerous. Technology has the potential to be the biggest community-oriented invention in human history but unfortunately it seems to be doing the opposite. Google exploded in 2000 and the tech industry has been growing more and more…

We Assume Everyone Cares About What We Think — I can remember a saying my father used to mention frequently throughout my life. “People have an overexaggerated opinion about their own importance.” I didn’t quite understand it the first time I heard it. It just sounded like something kind of mean to say about people in general. As I…

Decentralized social media, instances, and the blissful confusion — I am still not sure what an “instance” is but somehow I am hanging out at (or in) the Medium-hosted instance via Mastodon. I am not sure if I even said that right. I feel as relevant as Alanis Morissette's famously unironic 10,000 spoons (since all she needed was a…

What mice may be able to tell us about the incel movement, MRA’s, and the hikikomori movement. — Shortly after my meltdown, I was talking to Jessica Wildfire about a bunch of stuff this week. She’s an incredible person and you should check out her writing if you haven’t. One of the things we talked about was behavioral sinks. The more we talked about cities and social media…

Okay, let’s talk about LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the premier social networking platform for professionals. The ‘Facebook of the Business World’, right? It’s where you go to showcase your career journey, network with like-minded individuals, and, if you’re in the market, land your next big gig. But when it comes to…