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Social contagion:

What do we really know?

What a very big, very broad question to ask, plus they lead with this

The phenomenon of social contagion...is both intuitively appealing and potentially powerful.

Social contagions can be very good, but also very bad. Places like Facebook, Twitter, and tumblr all go contract this infectious disease, whether it be from LIKEing an outfit, or retweeting someone, or reblogging an opinion about a popular opinion
but this can lead to

"...dramatically alter[ing] the prospects for social epidemics, as well as introduce other mechanisms entirely by which social change can come about, yet models of social influence reflect very little of this added complexity."

The good news is, these social media platforms, will not just hinder us but give us aid towards new innovation. People's understanding of social contagion is likely to improve dramatically in the near future, thanks to an avalanche of new data, much of it generated by social media platforms.

Thanks to the technological revolution of the Internet, however, this situation is undergoing rapid transformation. Researchers have recently used social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to track the diffusion of individual pieces of content over interpersonal networks on a massive scale. Even more recently, Facebook’s data science team has conducted a “field experiment” that, through random manipulations to their newsfeed algorithm, shed new light on the mechanics of interpersonal influence with respect to user actions such as “likes.”

All in all, the studies are headed well, and social contagion will be researched and properly utilized to help the general populus.

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This website is

the greatest website in all of existence

but....it is.

So onto the review! I believe this website is great because there is such plethora of random information on this website, every time you visit the home page, there's something new to see. The first thing that came at me (get it get it??) was

So curious, I clicked on THIS ARTICLE, because tumblr is one of my favorite websites, and seeing the creative things people create on there, just makes me happy!

This time, the article is about 3D gif making. ~~As you can tell I love gifs~~ I ~~love~~ like putting gifs in this blog, so upon clicking the link, these had already looked familiar to me because I had seen them on tumblr.

"A new trick has been circulating among gif creators that allows them to create animated images with a convincing 3D aspect...using white lines the animated images can “pop” out of the frame in front of the white lines and toward the viewer."

Here are some examples of the gifs, these and more can be viewed on the tumblr website, just by clicking here .

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