Reading Logs

Reading Log # 1

Title : Meet Facebook’s Mr. Nice

Author : Nick Bilton

Text Type : Article

Date Finished : 24/3

Arturo Bejar may have the most difficult job. He is not responsible for increasing advertising revenue or keeping the website alive 24 hours a day. Mr. Bejar has a much more inscrutable task: teaching the site’s 1.3 billion users, especially its tens of millions of teenagers, how to be nice and respectful to one another.

This article gave me information about how facebook is trying to teach empathy to its users. According to the article “we have evolved to understand each other by by tone of voice or seeing facial expressions, but that gets lost through the services we use to communicate” I relate to this because I can tell how someone is feeling through their facial expression and their tone of voice. According also to the article, “When kids let someone know they’ve hurt their feelings in a personal way, there’s a strong likelihood that the other kid will take that own” I also relate to this because when I post things on social media, I don’t post it to hurt someone’s feelings but mostly because I think my friends would find it funny. I think that this is mostly how most teenagers feel across the world because most of them also don’t post things online in order to hurt someone but to share what they think is funny.

This text gave me an insight into how Facebook’s team is trying to teach people empathy and how they are trying to make facebook a better place for people. This is shown by them creating means of reporting a post. With users reporting the post they allow them to inform the owner of the post how they have made them feel.