Get away from side effect of algorithms and start living in real world.
Thanks to the advanced technology, we can live in a pretty convenience world. We can smoothly surf on the internet, which like easily approach the music with the rhythm we like, video which we gonna feel attracted…etc, algorithms take a lot of credit. It also helps people who wants to run their own business but lack of budget to advertise their products or services in traditional ways, efficiently find target customers and cost reasonable price.
Frankly speaking, algorithms bring many benefits to our live.We fall in love with those customized pages and can’t live without. If you are the user of Spotify you might have the same feeling like me” Spotify could be the only person who understands me and knows what I want ”. Their algorithm”BaRT” observes your action on Spotify and keeps showing those precise playlists suit your taste on your home page. It’s kind of fulfilled feeling when you find a music that totally your tone, it’s because when you’re listening to the music you like, it will make your brain release more dopamine. It’s the same logic no matter where algorithm being applied on, it aim for making you feel good while you’re using their services.
However, Algorithm broadens our bias and makes us feel hard to accept opposite opinion. In order to have your focus as long as possible, algorithms tend to constantly feed those informations that gonna make you feel comfortable, from YouTube videos to daily news. In terms of news, despite there’re several different news media, only those have same politic tendency with you would be shown on your home page. This symptom create thicker boundary between people with different opinion.
we stay in this artificial comfort zone without any intention and ability to step outside.
We start to be afraid of sharing our opinion in public places, we tend to avoid awkward moment when people who we discuss have different point of views than us. It’s because we commonly see this thing happen on the internet, when people leave totally different opinion than vast majority under comment section, people not going to take their comment in consider, the only thing they will get in this circumstances is lots of hate.
How we can do to destroy this misunderstanding created by algorithm?
It’s not that hard and even easy to apply in daily, which is truly communicating with people in real live instead of on the internet. if you’re willing to put your phone away while discussing with others that will benefit the talk. Research shows that even you turn your phone off and leave it on desk, as long as you can see it, you not gonna have no personal bias during the talk.
Now you’re preparing to step outside your comfort zone, congratulation. However, before you do so, there’re 3 important points you have to be award of in order to have a great communication with fully understanding.
- Stop trying to prove people wrong.
I know it’s hard to disarm your embedded opinion and open your arms to the opinion which at other side of spectrum. we tend to squeeze our eyebrows when hearing some thing we not gonna accepted, after that, lots of informations that can prove people who you’re communicating with are wrong spontaneously appear in your brain, when you realize this circumstance happen in your brain, you already loss your focus on what people’s saying. So stop doing that, when it appear, be aware of it then let it pass away, put your focus back to dialog again.
2. Show respect
We all have experiences that some person’s opinion was objectively wrong. However, in order to think diversely, to get different angle of view and to stimulate the way we think, show your respect while people are talking, don’t disturb them, it will benefit to yourself at the end of the talk.
3.Ask question
If you want to find question and ask in concrete, effective ways, there’s no possible to distract your own focus. Otherwise, asking people question allows you to understand why they think of it, and you might find theirs thinking logic and the deep intention of why they tend to believe they are right in stead of you.
After shortening the distance between one another, we still can not to fully avoid those news feed which controlled by algorithm, actually we need it in our live, but now we’re able to read those bias news in objective way, and our mood will not be affected by incited articles and comment sections, we can start live in real world.
