Philosophy of Technology: The Daily Me

The Daily Me
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The Daily Me
What is the Daily Me? Discuss how social media platforms and their users create an internet experience that resembles the Daily Me.
Daily Me is an experience that could allow the users their communication package, with each part of the package selected in advance. It could focus on a specific topic that the user prefers, such as sports or romance stories. With the daily me, each user determines and controls what they want to see in the newspaper. In as much as the 'Daily Me' dream is not here yet, many social media applications that people use in society today have an experience similar to what Daily Me could be like. Through social media platforms like Facebook, people can see and hear what they want. The other social media platform that creates a similar experience to that of Daily Me is Twitter. This social media platform reflects an individual's preferred topic. The application can provide what an individual could like to see in various aspects such as politics and civil rights. Twitter allows individuals to include their issues of interest in the list of things there could want to see.
Daily Me also exists in today's social media platforms through the Artificial Intelligence used in Facebook and Goggle. With AI, the social media platforms learn about what an individual likes before even a person does. For instance, by knowing the type of music's personal preferences, the AI predicts movies and political candidates that one could be interested in, creating an experience close to Daily Me. Also, the AI can predict the kind of products an individual likes by looking at the websites a personal preferences.
Further, a social media platform like Facebook can know an individual's political stand by looking at the pages a person likes. Facebook shares individual preferences information with other people, including political leaders.
According to Sunstein, does the Daily Me (or our current approximation of it) increase or decrease the quality of our lives as members of democratic societies? What, for Sunstein, are the main positives and negatives of the Daily Me?
Daily Me has both positive and negative effects. Since receiving news on what they could like to see and hear, it is associated with many negative impacts. The negative consequences outweigh the positive effects in this case. Some of the positive effects of Daily Me, as discussed by Sunstein, include the ability to allow an individual to receive news according to their preferences. Also, the other positive thing is t...