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According to Torvalds, in addition to the practical benefits that are already so obvious that social networking offers, these online communication platforms also entail no less corollary and stand out among them about the interaction between people with people.
'On social networks, people can make humorous and sarcastic comments, or they can be easy judgments and insults without bothering with people's emotions and reactions. receive. This is something that really cannot happen easily when face-to-face interaction, 'Linus Torvalds said.
Besides, this veteran programmer said similar problems can happen with email, but he believes that email is a necessary tool and has a higher honesty - something that doesn't always exist. on social media platforms.
'All features like' Like 'or' Share 'are just rubbish. The reason for this is because I do not see any effective quality control efforts from service providers for these features. In fact, it's all about reversing in quality control, with targets with the lowest common denominator, click-bait, and everything designed to create emotional responses, often is moral outrage. And above all, people are hiding under virtual accounts to create all of these things, 'Torvalds said.
"Some people seem to be confused between privacy and anonymity, as well as thinking that these two things exist side by side, and that to protect privacy means you need to be anonymous. In my opinion, this thought is completely wrong, anonymity makes many people feel comfortable considering their own social network as a 'landfill' and wear 'defecate' and make others suffer without meeting. any problem, that's unfair. '
Because of this reason, Linus Torvalds does not participate in any social networking platform at the moment, although he used to use Google+ for a short time, but after that give up because it feels like Google doesn't really 'spend much attention needed' for this platform. (Google has just announced it will officially close Google+ in December this year, and has started deleting user accounts on Tuesday, April 2).
Torvalds is not sure if the government should intervene and start regulating companies that exploit services on the internet, but perhaps the authorities should also take the form of impact that makes these companies appear. be more responsible for the content they promote and manage. However, the fact that Torvalds formally voiced offense and at the same time opposed the way many famous platforms operate in the social media world will certainly not be a good sign for companies to offer. Social networking services, which are trying to convince the world that they are 'responsible people'.
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