From Status Updates to Life Narratives: How Social Media Data Writes Your Biography


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Facial Recognition and Citizen Ranking: The New Social ScorecardIn the eyes of technology, we are more than just faces in the crowd. The emergence of facial recognition technology and citizen ranking systems marks a new chapter in the story of social media and surveillance. Facial recognition allows platforms to identify us in images and videos, extending their ability to track and analyze our behavior. Meanwhile, citizen ranking systems, like China’s Social Credit System, utilize data from social media and other sources to assign scores to citizens based on their behavior. The Future of Social Media: Data-Driven BiographiesIn the future, our lives will be narrated not by us, but by the data we generate.