A network could be a variety of things. When we first heard the word we immediately think of social network. This automatically makes me think of the movie Social Network and how Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook. Facebook, like most social media apps, are a way for people to connect to each other. They’re built up of ways to connect with each other and have their own hierarchies. When you tweet something or post on Instagram, you’ll most likely get a comment or a like. That is already a connection within itself so when you have over 100 likes and 50 comments, you’re creating a network of people. With this comes this hierarchy aka the people who are verified. When we see a blue check next to someone’s name no matter what social media app we’re on, we know they’re high up in the food chain. These people tend to have millions of followers with hundreds of thousands of likes. Most of the time we follow these people because we have shared interests or we’re envious of them. That also creates its own network.
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Something that I think is interesting about the “verified” check is that we don’t truly understand what dictates someone as verified or not. Supposedly it is based upon how many followers one has, however, this isn’t particularly defined across media platforms and is generally dependent upon how many want a creator to seem “verified” or not. This contributes to a more generalized ideology of power and superiority, and is mostly related to how often a person contributes to the network as a whole. As discussed in class, our contributions are currency. Therefore, my understanding of the “verification” is that it is obtained by putting more and more of oneself out there for people to react to which is a frightening thought.