There will, I am certain, come a day when I will need to do nothing. My computer and my apps will know what I want, will obtain it without asking, will expect my thanks when it arrives, even if they are incapable of understanding what thank you means in a human world. They already plague me with offers and suggestions, if I liked that or even looked at it, I must like this. And they do it with a certainty that only an algorithm can possess. They know me, or so they are programmed, for they cannot think, and they cannot begin to imagine how fickle I can be, or what that term even means. But I know Jeff Bezos won’t give up without a fight. At least if there are a few more billion dollars to be made.
algorithm
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA
The meaning is simple,
a data point here,
another there,
an image,
an algorithm
words written
in jest,
in anger,
regret,
withdrawal,
cancellation,
account closed,
remaining shadows,
way back,
pixels always moving,
real friends
once touched,
I am
an avatar to you,
I have erased
you from memory.