Anger Gets Six Times the Engagement. The Rest Follows From That.
We saw the warning signs. Facebook was making us depressed, Twitter was making us angry, and we kept using them anyway.
Tag: Algorithms
Algorithms decide what gets seen, sold, and surfaced, including your writing. These articles cover algorithms: how platform ranking works, what it rewards, and how writers stay visible without writing for machines.
AlgorithmsLinkedIn Sucks: Why the Platform Stopped Working for Lead Generation
I used to pull clients straight off LinkedIn, posts with hundreds of views, real comments, real business, and I wrote over 100 profiles, trained by the person who wrote the Dummies book on profile optimization. That was five years ago.…
AlgorithmsSocial Media Echo Chambers – How the Algorithm Became Your Cult Leader
In 1973 they said it of television: the consumer is consumed, you are the product sold to the advertiser. Social media made it truer, because now the algorithm studies you before it sells you. Your feed is not reality; it…
AlgorithmsTikTok as a Weaponized Echo Chamber – From Chinese Cyberweapon to American Problem
TikTok is not just dancing teens and recipe hacks; it is a weaponizable influence engine that can radicalize, mobilize, and activate people en masse without their noticing, because it never has to hack your phone, only your feed. The ownership…
AlgorithmsLinkedIn’s Algorithm Changed. Here’s What Actually Works in 2026.
Watched your LinkedIn reach collapse in late 2025? The algorithm shifted, and most advice from 2023 and 2024 now works against you, posting constantly, hashtag-chasing, perfect timing, all dead. Here is what genuinely moves reach in 2026: saves, dwell time,…
AlgorithmsThe Algorithm Apocalypse: Why Building an Audience in 2026 Is Career Suicide
Post your best work to 127,000 followers and get 47 likes; a kid filming himself eating cereal upside down to 180 followers pulls 2.3 million views. That is the algorithm working as designed, turning creators into gambling addicts and follower…