This article assumes we are at the whim of social when infact many people have tamed social and, for lack of better phrasing, made social their bitch.
Read The Distraction Addiction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131064-the-distraction...
Read The Distraction Addiction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131064-the-distraction...
That shit doesn't happen in Facebook.
I'm talking about mining, say, Twitter's firehose for nuggets of gold using, let's say, R[1] or finding other clever ways to separate the signal from the noise.
It's well known that Twitter and even Facebook's firehose are a cluttered, un-curated mess which are crying out to be analyzed with things like R[1], if you are so inclined, or finding other ways to do signal analysis on other social networks like Facebook.