"It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care what you have to say."
— David Levithan
We’re well aware of how social media platforms effectively regulate content, by using algorithms to boost and promote certain kinds of ideas and images and expressions, while discouraging, distorting, downvoting, censoring, or even prohibiting others. But how does this influence our behavior on social media, guide our decisions regarding what kinds of content to share? What compromises do we make in order to build engagement, accumulate followers, and earn “likes?” What happens when naturists compete for attention on the big social media platforms, and how do our social media behaviors impact the larger naturist movement?
Social Media’s Reliance on Junk Content
Carl Jensen, founder of Project Censored, coined the expression “junk food news,” which he defined as "sensationalized, personalized, and homogenized inconsequential trivia." Though “not very nour…
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