social media reframing social relations within select categories

  • social-media
  • society-development

Self-described relations restricted by data options or available interfacing methods. An instance of data so imprecise that it is inaccurate and losing data through analogue-to-digital conversion

  • social media reframing social relations within select categories
  • early on, as ‘friend’ and ‘follower’
  • then more extensively through eg fb familial relations and relationship statuses
  • to later eg snapchat/bereal/etc with close friend groups and streak partners
  • more generally with parasocial relationships now incredibly common
  • will machine learning soon by used to define relationships?
    • it is likely already used in eg determining human networks for marketing, surveillance, etc
    • life simulation games that generate relationships on the basis of interactions
      • eg The Sims 4 appears to have a complex relationship system, will check the code/docs