Social media use cases
I'm looking for examples of why and how people use social media. First-hand and remote cases are both acceptable, though I'd appreciate distinguishing these.
Speculation is acceptable, though I appreciate your labeling it.
Published materials are especially appreciated -- studies, research, surveys, etc.
Especially:
• What draws you/others to social media?
• What do you/others actually do?
• What dissuades you/others from participation?
Thanks.
I'm looking for examples of why and how people use social media. First-hand and remote cases are both acceptable, though I'd appreciate distinguishing these.
Speculation is acceptable, though I appreciate your labeling it.
Published materials are especially appreciated -- studies, research, surveys, etc.
Especially:
• What draws you/others to social media?
• What do you/others actually do?
• What dissuades you/others from participation?
Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteHow Millennials use and control social media
ReplyDeleteSee what friends are talking about
Find things that entertain them
Look for interesting articles or linksposted
Share content
See what's "trending"
Get more information on somethingheard on news
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/millennials-social-media/?x
americanpressinstitute.org - How Millennials use and control social media
Scott Scowcroft Business marketing discussions drive much of the published material on use cases. I'm not convinced it describes most users' interests.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Sorry, I likely misunderstood your original intent.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, is that list in order of what is most important:
ReplyDelete"How Millennials use and control social media
See what friends are talking about
Find things that entertain them
Look for interesting articles or links posted
Share content
See what's "trending"
Get more information on something heard on news"
I'm older by far and if I take the very same list my order would be:
Find things that entertain them
Get more information on something heard on the news
Share content
Look for interesting articles or links posted
See what friends are talking about
Notice what I left off...
As the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for a large home care agency I use social media to monitor official sources for updates that may affect my clients, and to communicate with clients and staff regarding changing conditions.
ReplyDeleteMy primary use of social media is to participate in private interest groups related to my hobbies: private communities on G+, private groups on FB, some forums around the Internet. In some cases these are tied to courses I paid for where students share their work and experiences with each other and with the leaders. Being private groups as well as requiring members to have paid for the courses where applicable, there is virtually no spam, memes, haters, politics, or any of the other annoying things that appear in public social media streams.
ReplyDeleteSocial media is also my primary way of discovering news, in niches such as technology as well as mainstream news. I use it for what I formerly used RSS readers for, to follow headlines published by websites of interest.
To a lesser extent I use FB in particular to keep in touch with some real-life friends and relatives.
Scott Scowcroft You gave a valid reference. It's just ... very prevalent. I'm posting some of my searches. Results are interesting.
ReplyDeleteSearch: "social media" use cases
ReplyDeletehttps://duckduckgo.com/?q="social+media"+use+cases&atb=v64-5_a&t=cros&ia=web
duckduckgo.com - "social media" use cases at DuckDuckGo
Dean Barnett Why don't you monitor those sources directly? Not a criticism, but narrowing down "why social media rather than primary sources?"
ReplyDeleteSearch: how * use "social media"
ReplyDeletehttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+*+use+"social+media"&atb=v64-5_a&t=cros&ia=web
duckduckgo.com - how * use "social media" at DuckDuckGo
A surprising number of search hits address legal and police use, e.g.,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.govtech.com/social/Police-Use-Social-Media-as-Frontline-Tool-in-Fighting-Crime.html
govtech.com - Police Use Social Media as Front-Line Tool in Fighting Crime
I have strong dislike for SEOs and people who reduce social media to be about the sale, the marketing, the hoarding of followers.
ReplyDeleteI love to find others that share my interests, that like to share information, experiences, and opinions. That are themselves, with or without pseudonyms, that are genuine, and that share my curiosity and hunger for knowledge.
Edward Morbius Really, there isn't an equally efficient way to monitor dozens of official agencies operating in a service area covering over 6,000 square miles.
ReplyDeleteI am very much an introvert, uncomfortable in social situations, not easily able to express myself in immediate conversation. Social media allows me to share my thoughts, artwork, things I find interesting, on my own terms.
ReplyDeleteDean Barnett Translating that: Social media are effectively serving as a single-point aggregator, newsfeed, notification portal, and format-standardisation system?
ReplyDeleteAre you using Twitter, FB, or others?
Do these agencies offer RSS / Atom feeds? Websites?
Have you tried using those? I'm presuming they didn't serve your needs?
Virtual Worlders use social media to stay in touch with others while not in world. These can be mirror worlds or they can be fantasy worlds. Users share images, share video clips, look for help, offer help, promote events like parties, special builds, conferences, fundraisers, and all the typical social media sharing. It is sometimes an extension or lifeline for many who are for whatever reason isolated socially. User types run the gamut from educators to role players. The vast majority use it to socialize so social media integration with virtual worlds are a good fit. I would say virtual worlders have an extended use case because social media usage in many cases is part of both the offline life and the online life.
ReplyDeleteHence, why some of us are looking at ways to integrate them to enhance the user experience and reduce complexity of multiple accounts for sharing images. A simple shared folder as implemented by one Open Simulator grid so far eliminates the need to download then upload every image for sharing. I am told the code will be freely available when development is complete which is a wonderful effort by the developer of that solution. Improved usability helps everyone.
Edward Morbius It's Twitter for incoming, Twitter and FB for outgoing. We also use a HIPPA- compliant SMS app for clinical information.
ReplyDeleteOkay, lieber Edward Morbius , ich nutze ein soziales Netzwerk um weltweit gute Fotos und Kunst von FotografInnen und KünstlerInnen anderer Art zu sehen...
ReplyDeleteund mich mit diesen ,,Künstlern" auszutauschen.
Dieser Austausch ist inspirierend für die künstlerischen Interessen aller Beteiligten!
Insgesamt steigert dieser gegenseitige Austausch die künstlerische Weiterentwicklung aller!!!!!
Gleichzeitig bietet das soziale Netzwerk die wunderbare Möglichkeit, weltweit nette Freude zu finden, Kontakt zu halten und sich mit ihnen Auszutauschen...
Deshalb ist es inzwischen mehr denn je notwendig, das ein integrierter Übersetzer in sozialen Netzwerken zu einem Standard wird!!!
Zusätzlich nutze ich die Informationsmöglichkeiten über tagesaktuelle Nachrichten...
Ebenso aktuelle thematische Informationen unterschiedlichster Interessengebiete...
Auch Information und / oder Hilfestellung durch Community's, die sich mit Android, Google oder technischen Dingen beschäftigen.
Und das alles zusammengefasst an einer einzigen Stellezu! ;)
Und wichtig ist mir dabei, ganz klar, die Rechte an meinen eigenen Daten zu behalten...
Und von Seiten des Informationsgehalt nicht in einer eigenen Meinungsblase zu ,,schwimmen".
Für eine Informationsvielfalt ist es wichtig, dass auch die tagesaktuellen Informationen gut und frei fließen... Und das diese auch nicht zu stark bzw. einseitig durch Algorithmen vorgefiltert werden.
Beste Grüße :-)
An interesting piece of research into why users spread fake news on social media.
ReplyDeleteI saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
Nationalism a driving force behind fake news in India, research shows - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46146877
bbc.co.uk - Nationalism a driving force behind fake news in India, research shows - BBC News
Dean Barnett Thanks, about what I'd suspected.
ReplyDeleteRegulated fields (medicine, finance, military, a few others) also present special-use cases.
Andi Droid What works for you (or doesn't) in terms of discovery for art? You're mostly looking at visual art?
ReplyDeleteSomething I've noticed at Ello, which is heavily oriented toward visual art, but lacks any useful search, and has what to me is an especially disorganised page presentation, is that after a few screens of random content, randomly arranged ... I'm tired of it. Much as I can only stand about an hour or two of going through a museum before my brain needs a break.
With Google+ or a good image search you can search for a specific image or concept if you want to. I find this useful where it's present. Does this matter at all to you, or are other factors more important?
This is a list I've adapted from a draft Christian Buggedei has been passing around. It has a set of use-cases / user "personas" at its core, which I've both summarised and expanded slightly. I think it covers most usefully-describably cases.
ReplyDeletePassive casual users
Little interest in technical details, seek specific content or contacts, generally family/friends, require a simple and clear tool and experience. Highly averse to harassment or uncivil behaviour. This is the largest user group by far, though individually each contributes relatively little to the network.
Active casual users
Similarly nontechnical and valuing simplicity, but engaging more actively with the tool. Simple texts, images, video, and chat features have strong appeal. Need to be able to find and interact with their contacts and related conent. Most engagement need not be public. This group represents the greatest activity locus, though again, the contribution to the network content as a whole is comparatively small.
Hobbyists, Interests, & Activities
Hobbyists join social platform to share their interests or activities, forming affinity-based networks. It is therefore important that suitable content can be found easily.
Tend to prefer group oriented discussions, though focused on interests. May be a growth hub as they form communities which in turn invite other users.
Technologists and professionals
As with hobbyists, but activities tend to be focused on work or professional activities, generally in group communications rather than out group as with business marketing (see below).
This is a double-edged sword, because the feedback does not always include the interests of the other target groups, but is written from the perspective of IT professionals and thus overlooks beginner requirements. May be willing to pay for specific capabilities.
Business Marketing, Sales, SEO, Support
A class of related activities, typically organisationally-based, generally out group oriented (that is, communicating with others). This community is not particularly cohesive amongst its own members, but rather, they form a consistent locus of behaviours and interests.
Task-oriented tools around branding, customer support, messaging, feedback, etc., likely matter. Will often pay for specific capabilities. May be considered a net negative by other users.
Socio-politically interested people
Their objective is to exchange political views and to organise movements or activism. It is important that content is made available in a meaningful way for everyone, that discussions are moderated and that the group itself can be protected against abuse.
It is important to note that this sort of activism can be misused via the network against society. The same platform that protects individual activists must also be able to protect the platform against them, if need be.
At-risk persons / Social Services
Many people need special protection often because of who they are, but sometimes because others target them specifically (people in an abusive relationship or with stalkers for example). This category is diverse and includes members from other groups listed as well as its own cohesive subgroups. This group is a bellweather of the effectiveness of anti-abuse systems and general tolerance.
Curators and multipliers
Curators ensure a network’s success. They sort through a great deal of content in a short time and boost "interesting" contributions and pieces of news. In addition, they often initiate and moderate discussions.
ReplyDeleteTheir behaviour is strongly asymmetric: They process far more content than they create, but have many followers. They themselves follow a small fraction of these back.
In addition, curators need workflow capabilities to preview, discard, mark for further processing, and group content into themes. This group provides a critical discovery role to the network.
Creators
Bloggers, artists, writers, journalists, scientists, etc., all sharing the common theme of creating content that many others want to read. Need not be "famous" persons, but often have considerable audiences.
Like curators, they draw large numbers of people onto the platform. Unlike curators they create their own content and will need functionality that helps them highlight and distribute their work. With sufficient activity, this group can drive platform interest.
Celebrities and persons of the public interest
These have audience on a scale that is disruptive to networks, and can be overwhelming to the celebrity themselves. Often this means special consideration for both outbound and inbound content. Can be subject to abuse or harassment from even a small fraction (though still sizeable number) of other users. While a powerful interest magnet, these users are drawn largely to audience, and can leave as quickly as they appear.
Disruptors
These range from casual trolls to harassers and abusers, those who unintentionally or intentionally spread misinformation, disinformation, advertising, spam, propaganda, or worse. There may be material that is detractive or illegal: gore, violence, nudity, sex, pornography, or other controversial material. There may also be surveillance, stalking, coercion, intimidation, blackmail, or other behaviours. All of these detract from the value of and inclination to participate in the network. They are also driven by various motivations, and may be limited to a greater or lesser extent by various countermeasures, though those may also snare innocent users.
Edward Morbius Good list! I can see myself in several of these categories.
ReplyDeleteI do also recognize these in those that I follow.
I can suggest another group: Media / News - which more or less use social media in a passive fashion - i.e. as a publishing point and "link jump" platform, but which usually don't really care about maintaining the comment section for each post.
.... and reading that, I'm thinking of one more, which describes much of my use. Call it didacts or extended socialisers.
ReplyDeleteWe don't find the interactions we're looking for in everyday life -- our interests are broader than our physical social circles support. Some of this overlaps with other areas described above (and this might well collapse into one or more of these), but, whether it's literature, or art, or music, or science, or technology: it's through the extended reach and filters of online networks that we find the few people who are similarly interested, and who we can shoot the breeze with. We're learning from each other, most often (though there are also clear luminaries in certain areas).
And it's not always serious, because a fair bit of the time I'm looking for a crowd who won't (or thanks to virtualisation) cannot tear me to pieces over some bad pun or joke or another.
More the spirit of some of the early online networks (Usenet, The Well, etc.), which a few of us were around to see (or at least around), and which may colour parts of this.
"Looking for our own kind" might be one way of phrasing that (and there are certainly other instances of this as well, often tied to self-identity).
Lars Fosdal Journalists. I'd been meaning to add that.
ReplyDeleteNote that there are two modes -- one is the transmission side, where news stories are posted, but an awful lot of journalists (or is it just the lazy ones?) are using SocMed to reach out to sources or search.
The lazy variant of that includes celeb PR bits with canned slots for Twitter feedback and commentary. Hrm...
Public Relations would be another category.
I'll also note that my planned future use will likely involve blogging with content pushed out to microblog / social sites, much of which will have a link jump as you describe it. The more I can engage from a home base and not be on the destination platform itself (with all the distractions that entails) the better.
Sometimes I feel like an imposter in these techie circles. But for example Lars Fosdal is someone that G+ found for me out of my silver surfer garden blogger filter bubble.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky to start garden blogging with the 'it takes a village' support of Blotanical. RIP.
I learnt to use Google Reader to gather together what I wanted to read, new posts I didn't want to miss. RIP and now using Feedly thanks to G+ advice.
Along the way I have found many FB groups.
But on G+ I am happily out of my 'garden' filter bubble. Enjoying tech, science, environment, electric cars, on the ground breaking news.
TBH I will probably make sure I can follow a select few I know from G+. I am unlikely to launch into a replacement for G+.
I use Facebook to learn what acquaintances, their kids, dogs and cats are up to, Linkedin as a self-updating Rolodex of my professional contacts and Google+, Twitter, Diaspora etc. as a playground to see what all this social media stuff is about.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius
ReplyDeleteNun, ich denke, der grundlegende Unterschied ist, dass in G+ Community's oftmals doch eine völlig andere ,,Kultur" vorherrscht, da es nicht um den Verkauf geht!!!
Es geht hier eher um das ,,miteinander Wachsen!". Es geht darum von den Besseren zu lernen und sich selbst zu verbessern. Konstruktive Kritik und/oder auch Lob sind immer sehr willkommen.
Und/oder wenn sich innerhalb der Community Freundschaften bilden, dann agiert man innerhalb der Kommentare sehr freundschaftlich miteinander. ;)
So wie ich von anderen hörte, geht es vielen Nutzern bei Ello aber eher nur um das ,,Anbieten" ihrer eigenen Kunst.
Die Community's auf G+ sind oftmals sehr gut moderiert/gepflegt, was natürlich sehr, sehr viel Arbeit für die Moderatoren bedeutet.
Spam Beiträge werden sofort aussortiert.
Mitglieder, die gegen Regeln verstoßen, erhalten sofort Feedback von Moderatoren.
Wenn ein Mitglieder Beitrag als unpassend erachtet wird, dann gibt es innerhalb sehr kurzer Zeit entsprechend Feedback!
Der Absender kann also schnell erkennen, warum seine Beiträge nicht zu der Community passen.
Beispielsweise würde ich in der Flickr Gruppe kein besonderes Feedback bekommen. Dort ist klar, ich gebe mein Foto in die Gruppe und entweder, ich werde es nach einiger/manchmal erst längerer Zeit, im Gruppenstream sehen... oder ich werde es nicht sehen, weil es abgelehnt wurde.
Hier in Fotocommunity's gibt es ein ,,Wochen/ oder Monatsthema" oder Moderatoren der Kunst Community wählen besonders gute/interessante Beiträge in ein Showcase.
Auf Flickr scheint Flickr selbst Fotos für einen Flickr eigenen Fotostream auszuwählen. Allerdings ist mir noch nicht klar, aufgrund welcher Kriterien das passiert. Wahrscheinlich muss man die eigenen Fotos in spezielle offizielle Flickr Gruppen teilen.
Flickr selbst veranstaltet den ,,Inkttober" und einige themenbezogene Veranstaltungen.
Jedoch konnte ich derartiges noch nicht in den ,,normalen" Gruppen sehen.
Ja, wenn es mir um bestimmte Bilder geht oder um bestimmte Künstler, dann würde ich auch eher, zum Beispiel die Google Suche verwenden. ;)
Es geht in den Community's eher um die Vielfalt der Möglichkeit! Den Kontakt, den Austausch miteinander, die Möglichkeit weltweit Freundschaften innerhalb des Netzes zu finden, die Möglichkeit sich gegenseitig zu insperieren, die Möglichkeit voneinander zu lernen und miteinander künstlerisch zu wachsen.
Diese Möglichkeiten werden dann zusätzlich durch die thematischen Wettbewerbe und die Auswahl ins Showcase, innerhalb der Community unterstützt. Und Mitglieder der Community haben jederzeit die Möglichkeit, Informationen über interessante Ausstellungen und ähnliches zu teilen.
Ich denke, dieses ist das einzigartige von G+ und wenn es durch die Google Entscheidung, durch das AUS von G+ zerstört wurde, dann wird es das so nicht mehr geben.
In einem neuen, geschlossenen System könnte man beispielsweise nicht sofort den Bericht, von der ,,Künstler Aktion" auf der Auktion, Posten.
Oder die Künstler einer Community würden dann auch nicht von außen gefunden!
Diese Dinge sind aber auch sehr wichtig!!!
Tatsächlich denke ich, die Google Entscheidung richtet einen großen, sicher nicht wieder gut zu machenden Schaden an!!!
Natürlich ist Flickr ein sehr guter Standort für Foto & Kunst aller Art. Und ich werde sicher das Konto dort behalten.
Aber es ist bisher kein richtiger Vergleich zu den Community's hier auf G+!
In erster Linie ist es ein großer Nachteil, dass es keinen integrierten Übersetzer gibt.
Natürlich kann man am PC, im Browser zwei Tab öffnen und den Text hin und her kopieren...
Aber viele sind mit anderer Technik unterwegs...
Dann klappt das nicht.
Und sogar das hin und her kopieren ist oftmals zu Zeitaufwendig, wenn man viele Kommentare hat und zu hinderlich im direkten Austausch.
ReplyDeleteDadurch nimmt die Kommunikation verständlicherweise stetig ab und verflacht.
Nach kurzer Zeit kann ich verstehen, warum es auf Flickr insgesamt ,,ruhiger" bezüglich der Kommentare ist. ;)
Um nur für mich selbst zu sprechen:
Durch meine Aktivitäten, hier in G+ hatte ich insgesamt meine Skepsis gegenüber Google und Android abgebaut.
Innerhalb der letzten, fast vier Jahre, sah ich einige Google Apps verschwinden.
Aber ich dachte bisher, wenn Google ein soziales Netzwerk, wie dieses Google+ hat, dann ist sich Google auch seiner Verantwortung den Menschen gegenüber bewusst.
Denn es ist ja nicht etwa so, dass diese Plattform nur ,,kostet". Google zieht ja auch immer, mehr oder weniger ,,Gewinn" aus den Daten aller Beteiligten.
Nicht zu vergessen, eine derartige Plattform ist ja auch immer ein ,,Versuchslabor für andere Dinge".
Nun,... durch Googles Entscheidung, hat Google mein Vertrauen in Google nachhaltig zerstört.
Denn ich sehe klar, Google nimmt seine Verantwortung den Menschen gegenüber nicht ernst.
Und durch meine Flickr Erfahrung bleibt zu sagen, dass es für jedes soziale Netzwerk unbedingt notwendig ist, einen integrierten Übersetzer einzurichten.
Denn nur durch einen integrierten Übersetzer wird ein weltweiter Austausch zwischen den Menschen tatsächlich möglich.
Und eine integrierte Übersetzungsfunktion macht eine Plattform aktiv & vielfältig in der Kommunikation miteinander!!!
Beste Grüße :-)
I used social media to keep in contact with friends (Facebook, when I had an account there; G+ when friends were still active here), and I use social media to learn about topics I'm interested in, to discuss such topics, to post on such topics.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed with the the evolving clarity of this thread I also discovered I don't know how to express my usage experience though I saw myself in the descriptors above I began life with ICQ - 3d friends. as well as online interests, and location 1992 era MTV had a social app that was cool, haven't seen anything like it again, floating fruit in space lol with special interest due to a near death incident and living out in a national forest area I stumbled into Spirit Web Chat that was a multifaceted community live engagement private and public rooms as well as an ability to post and interact with topics using a sort of page format before that was shut down a gal in Australia turned me onto Paltalk one morning in Feb which was amazing bc I was struggling with a personal problem down loaded installed suddenly I had a new friend in my face a short conversation and my problem disintegrated and I could move on to getting a rental car go to my dad in the hospital that was like 1999-2000 not sure exactly I was on paltalk during and expanded my usage circle during 9-11 Challenger hurricanes etc and I played interactive games and had social relationships on AOL that kinda fizzled 2005-06 not sure why maybe I was really heavy everyday on Paltalk I also had a yahoo group and participated in yahoo questions and answers I have since deleted my yahoo I posted a little on belief.net it was somewhat stale little interaction not sure what possessed me to join in google groups join a community was like 69th member which has grown tenfold since So I have not been interested in fb, Since I experience myself as multifaceted I really dont want all my relationships to share the same space neighbors family friends work stuff and focus interests no way oh and the my space era I tried it like Skype didnt go anywhere ooh the early attraction with G+ was the integrated video hangout along with interactive posting I have met many online acquaintances over the years as such relationships have evolved into close friendships of shared interests still participating in a weekly hangout for 5+ years,
ReplyDeletea look back upon my online synopsis of the last 26 years oh and man years ago b4 apps there was King Games I played regularly with some folks and we chatted as we played some of those relationships crossed over into other forums - Feel free not to read this expose I just dont know how to distill this down into a short paragraph
Andi Droid >"I have to say that for any social network, it is absolutely necessary to set up an integrated translator. "
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! I have not found such integration outside of G+ yet. I would be interested in hearing if any of the "social networks" pick up on this. The lack of integrated translation is unsociable.
there's that parallel universe that insists Everybody here Must talk ENGLISH. Even on G+ in some Communities I promptly avoided.
ReplyDeleteDiana Studer
ReplyDeleteNun, liebe Diana, es gibt viele die können kein Englisch... Es gibt weltweit viele, die können nur in ihrer eigenen Sprache kommunizieren!!!
Sogar mit Übersetzer kann es noch manchmal zu Missverständnissen kommen, die man dann aber immer untereinander aufklären kann.
Dadurch ,,lernt" dann sogar das Übersetzungsprogrammen. ;)
Wenn die englische Sprache als Grundvoraussetzung angesehen wird...
Dann wird ein Teil der Netz~interessierten Menschheit ausgeschlossen!!!
Dadurch führt sich das Internet ad absurdum!!!
Denn das Internet wurde dafür erdacht, dass sich Menschen weltweit miteinander verbinden und austauschen können!!
Und das sich Menschen weltweit über alles informieren können.
In der heutigen Zeit darf es doch kein Problem mehr sein, überall eine integriertere Übersetzungsfunktion einzubauen!!!!!
Das nicht automatisch überall integriertere Übersetzungsfunktion zur Verfügung stehen...
Das scheint wohl eher an der Ignoranz und dem unsäglichen ,,schwimmen in der Eigenen Blase" zu liegen.
Wir stehen kurz vor dem Jahr 2019 und herrscht BABEL in der Welt.
Aber es sollte zumindest in unserer Zeit doch eine vollkommene Selbstverständlichkeit sein, mit der Normalität des integrierten Übersetzers, überall im gesamten Internet,... "BABEL" seiner Kraft zu berauben!!!!!!
Andi Droid & Diana Studer Google translates German to English very well, but I am disappointed with other translations. Arabic to English seems particularly difficult for Google. Are you experiencing similar problems? Are there better translation services out there?
ReplyDeleteJeff Diver
ReplyDeleteAh!,... Ja, lieber Jeff, inzwischen kann der Google Übersetzer es oftmals ziemlich Gut.
Aber vor drei Jahren war es noch eine Katastrophe!!!!
Wir Nutzer haben dazu beigetragen, dass Google jetzt einen sehr gutes Produkt hat.
Wir Nutzer haben die falschen Übersetzungen ständig berichtigt. Deshalb hat das Programm gelernt und ist jetzt so gut.
Du kannst daran sehen, Google hat in vielerlei Hinsicht von den Google+ Nutzern auch profitiert. ;)
Nein, es tut mir leid, zu Arabisch kann ich nichts sagen.
Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch waren auch vor zwei Jahren noch sehr problematisch... Es gab viele Missverständnisse...
Aber inzwischen wird es besser... Das System lernt durch die Verbesserungen, die vom Nutzer eingegeben werden!!! ;))
Jeff Diver Japanese to English is also pretty iffy...
ReplyDeleteAndi Droid I wish all social media learned "through the improvements entered by the user!" That would be too much to ask, wouldn't it, Edward Morbius?
ReplyDeleteAside from Google Translate, does any other platform learn from users more or less directly without the intervention of programmers? It seems to me many of the problems of G+ stem from the fact that members use the platform in ways programmers do not anticipate.
What social media platform is most responsive to user input?
Jeff Diver AI / ANN is fairly widely used among major players, though you may want to be careful what you train for.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius I have decoded your reference as Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Neural Networks.
ReplyDeleteThis is good to know, but I seek a social network very sensitive to user input, one that seeks and pays attention to its user's suggestions as well as patterns of use.
It would be nice to find a platform that puts users first and profits further down the list of priorities!
Is there any National Public Social Media comparable to NPR? Could there be? Will we make one?
tutorialspoint.com - Artificial Intelligence Neural Networks
Jeff Diver
ReplyDeleteHmmm,... Ich denke das System eines Übersetzer~Programm und eine soziale Media Plattform kann man in dieser Hinsicht so nicht miteinander vergleichen.
Aber aus dem Nutzerverhalten auf einem sozial Netzwerk können viele Erkenntnisse gezogen werden!!!!! Auch das ist sehr profitabel. ;)
Und natürlich gibt es auch profitable Aspekte bezüglich der Spam - / Missbrauch Meldefunktion im sozialen Netzwerk...
Allerdings würde ich der Meldefunktion noch eine alternativ ausfüllbare Begründungszeile hinzufügen. Ich bin sicher, nicht alle, aber einige würden auch begründen, warum sie Missbrauch melden! ;)
Insgesamt gesehen, baut man diese Meldefunktion für Spam & Missbrauch in ein soziales Netzwerk ein, dann wird das Netzwerk zu einem großen Teil durch die Anwender selbst gereinigt!
Der Betreiber benötigt dann dadurch einen kleineren Mitarbeiterpool!!!
Die Mitarbeiter müssen sich dann nur noch, im Fall von Beschwerden des ,,Gesperrten", mit dem Sperrfall beschäftigen.
Im Fall ,,Sexuelle Inhalte" kann eine künstliche Intelligenz nicht richtig funktionieren!!!
Denn die künstliche Intelligenz sortiert auch echte Kunst aus.
Und bei dem Missbrauch muss man zwischen tatsächlichem Missbrauch und echter Kunst unterscheiden!! Diese Fähigkeit ist menschlich!!!
Andi Droid missing my point! You and I can read each other's language. I am a determined user of Google Translate. I leave a thread which insists on English.
ReplyDeleteJeff Diver etc the problem with iffy translations (try South Africa's Afrikaans) lies with the volume of parallel translations available on the interwebz. So the European languages in the EU win first prize. Not much Afrikaans on the interwebs so machine translations battle.
There is a place to help G provide a better translation, if you want to.
See >> suggest an edit
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Diana Studer
ReplyDeleteJa, natürlich, liebe Diana, wir können uns hier unterhalten, weil es hier in G+ einen integrierten Übersetzer gibt.
Aber ich könnte es in Flickr jetzt nicht!! Denn dort gibt es keinen integrierteren Übersetzer. Und ich bin jetzt mit meinem Tablet... Damit kann ich nicht kein und her kopieren!! :-/
Ah!,... Wenn ich am PC bin, dann habe ich in meinem Browser immer einen Tab für den Google Übersetzer geöffnet. Am PC kann ich dann alle Texte, in Abschnitten hineinkopieren und übersetzen.
Ich prüfe immer die Übersetzung... Es gibt meistens zwei Vorschläge... Oftmals ist die Alternative besser geeignet, dann merkt sich der Übersetzer die bessere Wahl.
Wenn ich selber Texte schreibe,... dann muss ich meine eigenen Sätze oftmals anpassen, damit es eine passende & verständliche Übersetzung in Französisch, Italienisch oder Spanisch gibt. ;)
Von Deutsch nach Englisch macht meistens kein großes Problem.
Aber wenn ich meine deutschen Worte nach Englisch übersetze...
Und der französische, italienische oder spanische Empfänger, dann die englische Übersetzung meiner Worte in seine eigene Sprache übersetzt,...
dann gibt es oftmals große Probleme und viele Sätze ergeben keinerlei Sinn oder einiges führt zu großem Missverständnis.
Deshalb ist es besser und eigentlich auch notwendig, gleich in die Sprache des Empfängers zu übersetzen. ;)
Dankeschön für den Link, ich werde es mir heute Abend auf dem PC ansehen! :)
Einen schönen Tag für dich und beste Grüße : ))
Ah!,... Ich sah gerade,...
den ersten Link verwende ich schon immer an meinem PC, aber es funktioniert nicht mit meinem Tablet.
den zweiten Link kann ich leider nicht verwenden...
Dafür müsste ich die ,,zweite" Sprache können...
Leider kann ich aber tatsächlich nur die deutsche Sprache!
Ich verwende am PC den Google Übersetzer...
Gebe im linken Feld meinen deutschen Text [Abschnittweise] ein...
Und überprüfe dann die Übersetzung im rechten Feld.
Inzwischen ist der erste Vorschlag oftmals richtig...
Manchmal muss ich es gegen die zweite, angezeigte Alternative austauschen...
Und manchmal muss ich meinen eigenen deutschen Text, mühsam durch Satzumstellung anpassen, damit alles einen Sinn in der anderen Sprache ergibt. ;)
Ich erlaube fast immer die Option zur Speicherung, zwecks Verbesserung der Übersetzungsfunktion.
Aber diese Dinge funktionieren nicht mit meinem Tablet!! Da ich damit keine kopier & einfüge Option habe.
Andi Droid maybe I need to backtrack and explain. I lived and worked for 10 years in university libraries in Zurich. I can read and speak German - but not happy to write it.
ReplyDeleteI use translate when the language is alien to me. However lost in translation it is still better than the nothing that I understand.
G+ has also given me a few people I can ask to clarify wobbly translations.
Irina T. for Russian for example.
Diana Studer
ReplyDeleteOh!, das muss wirklich ein fabelhafter Job gewesen sein!!
Ja, es ist besser als nichts! ;)
Dankeschön, liebe Diana und tatsächlich, G+ schenkte uns ganz wunderbare neue Freunde!!
Immer eine schöne Zeit voller Freude, für dich und beste Grüße : ))
No literary references, but personal preferences:
ReplyDeleteFacebook:
When I first started on Facebook, it was younger co-workers and an international group of people on a bus trip vacation I took that pulled me in. Then it evolved to re-connecting with some home-town people. Now it's a broad mix of people I've known face-to-face that I might not otherwise stay in touch with. Some of them I'd just as soon not stay in touch with, but over time Facebook has improved controls for dealing with that. Two of my really good friends aren't on any social media (both women; one who had a stalker she needed to avoid). Speaking of stalkers - another very attractive friend changed her profile or set up a new one to escape a stalker. I think she contacted us to let us know what the new profile would be. More recently, the New York Times has a page with authors and good moderators who have decent conversations (specifically related to US-Australian audience - it seems they aspire to extend their reach).
Sidenote: I had an account I used in the US, and one I started using in Australia. Eventually I killed the (older) one I used in the US, and I dropped a few people when I did that; most of them transferred over to the other account.
Instagram:
I wasn't going to load this, but one day decided what the heck.
Photos from a few friends, acquaintances, and outdoor adventure profiles; three celebrities (Tom Hanks posts amusing photos). I hate Instagram "stories" / competitor to SnapChat - it has horrible navigation controls. It's interesting that Instagram's format discourages discussion; it's always just a sentence or two.
Google Plus:
Few people I know face-to-face use G+. For me, there are two main appeals: interesting discussions and (scientific/technical) news sources I wouldn't otherwise look at. I've spent as much or more time on Google Plus than Facebook.
LinkedIn: This wouldn't be considered social media, but I have an odd relationship with LinkedIn. First, I avoided it because I didn't want recruiters calling. My connections on LinkedIn are an odd assortment of friends and acquaintances - and just last week LinkedIn reminded me of a friend of a friend I hadn't thought about for quite some time. It's nice to get a little nudge now and then to remind you of some people - like a "remind me to look up this person once a year".
Twitter: When I first joined, I would occasionally see if someone was tweeting about possible incidents (accidents / fires / police activity) nearby. It seems to be more popular in Australia, so I've tweeted here and there, but most of the time I don't bother even looking at it. I would NEVER subscribe to Donald Trump's twitter feed, but you can't avoid his tweets since they're repeated by the media. I undoubtedly see more tweets that are in news stories than I do looking at my twitter feed, since I rarely look at it. I did buy a Rogue NASA t-shirt when they tweeted about it.
Reddit: I've looked at it here and there; mostly I find the format annoying. And any given discussion will have a huge range of people chiming in, which generally creates more noise than data.
Diaspora: I've poked around. I found out I had an account I had forgotten about, so I'm in two pods. I joined the second one at the urging of some G+ connections, but that particular person isn't using their account much, and most of my G+ connections are still using G+.
Email
: realistically - Facebook has reduced my email usage, and more recently my email has more garbage than content. Part of that's my own fault for not unsubscribing, and for making my address available for undesirable dissemination. Most recently, I've found that Facebook is being used for general public information, and my family has switched to email for more private conversations.
ReplyDelete********I was recently offered a job, which means my free time will be greatly diminished, and my time spent on social media will undoubtedly be reduced.
James Lamb Thanks for your observations! They are very valuable for those of us like me who have little or no experience outside G+.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to G+ I might add... It's not just scientific / technical conversations - there's also a certain sense of humor that goes with that crowd. And there is a subset that I follow just for the fountain of humor that might not be appreciated by the general public.
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