Satire Essay On Social Media

Two seven zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Those numbers, plus a few commas, make up two hundred seventy million. That really big figure is the number of Americans who used social media apps in the past year. With the role of social media in our world growing, suppressing or prohibiting parts of it that some deem unacceptable, or a threat to their way of life, is quite common. Censorship, a word that has been tossed around a lot, is the act of hiding parts of something considered to be corrupt or menacing from a particular audience. Like obscuring literature that contains sexually explicit or overly violent content, or a parent banning their child from watching shows with curse words. Censorship can limit freedom of speech

This is evident by the prominent struggles people have when trying to comply with a platform’s guidelines, even when they post material that should not be flagged as being prohibited. Taking a look at how effective social media platforms are at enforcing their guidelines now, it becomes rather apparent that making them more restricted will only produce a higher margin of error and take up more resources. The sheer volume of content that is posted every minute makes it more difficult for social media platforms to regulate and enforce their guidelines. Like the fifty-five thousand Facebook posts posted every second that are not as moderated as they should be. Between the struggle to enforce their guidelines and balance the protection of users’ free speech and privacy, the current system would need more time and money to try adapting to the change. The time and resources could be accounted for by hiring more workers, but that would cause a need for more money. That money would have to come from somewhere, who? The users? The government? Even so, posts still might not get taken down very accurately. There is also the problem of social media companies not wanting to drive away their patrons. People always have the option of finding other ways to communicate online, whether via text messaging or alternate social media apps that do

Currently, both users and moderators of social media are responsible for handling content responsibly; users by deciding what to take seriously and moderators by ensuring that harmful content doesn’t thrive on their platforms. The current atmosphere around social media platforms shows that those two parties are not exactly doing their job one-hundred percent. Not all content consumption is on purpose. Things like misinformation often get taken too seriously by accident by users and moderators alike, including AI powered moderation techniques. In cases of misinformation, it is the platform’s job to review and remove flagged content. While this isn’t exactly happening like it should, forcing the producers and companies that host the social platforms to carry the burden of monitoring what content people consume makes people not have to think about what they’re consuming. They can get transported to the mindless realm where they do not have to worry too much about potentially harmful ideas, or even ideas they disagree with because they can just start blindly implementing random ideas into their way of thinking. This is a very common phenomenon on Tik Tok already, seeing people scroll endlessly and mindlessly, gaining nothing except maybe a new (unverified) fact or two. These companies would take the brunt of the responsibility for the content that is