Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Today I watched a video which was about Tiktok and the trend of internet. From the video, it analyzed the main successful factor of Tiktok. Compare with other giant online platforms, Tiktok focus on interest graph instead of social graph, the users of Tiktok are not necessary to follow anyone, Tiktok will push contents to you base on how long you stay on certain videos, so it creates a personalize pool to every one and make a great success in the world, in the meantime, it became the focus of the Internet, but it also attracted the attention of the political circles as Tiktok comes from China, a country that the West believes has no freedom of speech, as well as the China government will abuse the data to do the surveillance, however, some governments decide and consider to ban Tiktok in their countries. After that, people found that such actions only happened in the totalitarian countries before，like Iran, North Korea, Russia, but now, in some western countries, they started to do that or consider to do that，so what is the real freedom of speech on the Internet, and where do social media websites go in the future.

Today I watched a video which was about Tiktok and the trend of the internet. In the video, it analyzed the main successful factor of Tiktok. Compared with other giant online platforms, Tiktok focuses on interest graph instead of social graph, and / so the users of Tiktok are not necessary to follow anyone, but Tiktok will push contents to you based on how long you stay on certain videos, so it creates a personalized pool for every one and became very successful worldwide. In the meantime, it became the focus of the Internet, but it also attracted the attention of the political circles as Tiktok comes from China, (which is) a country that the West believes has no freedom of speech, and that the China government will abuse the data to do the surveillance, however, some governments are considering or have decided to ban Tiktok in their countries. After that, people found that such actions only happened in (the) totalitarian countries before，like Iran, North Korea, and / or Russia, but now, in some western countries, they started to do that or consider to do that，so what is true / real freedom of speech on the Internet, and where do social media websites go in the future / go from here? 

Grammar

I believe that you are a good person and that you are consistent.

i’m interesting in sth – i’m interested in sth

that’s the difference of them – between them / among them 

Vocabulary

it’s up in the air – nothing has been confirmed
eg. everything is up in the air at the moment so we’ll see what happens

gym house – gym studio 

habit – more like sth you can’t control
routine – more like your plan that you consistently
eg. My rountine is so wake up, make a coffee, and then exercise
eg2. I have the habit of biting my nails when I’m bored

algorithm – model / computer formula

surveillance – to use cameras to watch people
eg. there’s a lot of surveillance in China

abuse – to use sth too much so the effect is negative
eg. I abused alcohol when I was a teenager – i drank it so much that there were negative effects

totalitarian – governments that control everything – “total li tair ree yan” (like vegetarian)