Blog changes
Probably going to get rid of the social.coldstreams.com URL for accessing this blog. Sometime soon. The replacement will be either socialpanic.org or coldstreams.com/social
Social: The serious problem and challenge of misinformation on social media
Misinformation (things that are not true) is widespread on social media. Often heavily promoted, untrue claims become viewed as “truth”. There is no easy solution to this problem.
Media: Can you live on one income?
The proportion of households living on zero, one or two incomes has remained nearly constant for 25 years.
Media: The high prevalence of bias in media reporting
Media stories have high bias based on the topic. Travel, entertainment, and “domestic”/home stories are highly biased around women, while business and adventure stories are highly biased around men.
Media: How travel writing became self-centered narcissism
Travel writing has become self-centered, narcissistic, female focused – because Editors and content creators are working to satisfy “The Algorithm”. Self-centered stories, about the writer, not the destination, often presented as overcoming a victim-like challenge, are what gets the clicks.
Media doomerism, Part 4
All the doom that’s fit to print.
Media: Context free reporting, Part 3
Historical context is always important.
Media: They just make stuff up, Part 2
Report’ish promotes claim that more people are living to 100 and you need to hire a financial planner to plan for this. Except just 0.03% live to 100 today and this will remain tiny. Uses numerous propaganda techniques to persuade you to purchase financial services.
Media: They just make stuff up, Part 1
How reporter’ish people use celebrity endorsements in propaganda to promote their own interests.
Policy: Tourists to U.S. to be required to provide 5 years of social media posts
This marks the end of social media. We have no idea what they are looking for and can be misconstrued. Only safe option is leaving social media.