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