The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture | The New Yorker

Summary

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Online recommendation culture has grown with the rise of human-curated guidance in response to algorithmic recommendations. This trend is seen across various platforms where personal recommendations are valued over automated suggestions. To stand out and maintain authenticity in the online landscape, individuals can focus on sharing personal, unique recommendations, rather than following mainstream trends.

Highlights from Article

This recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations, which in the course of the past decade have taken over our digital platforms.

• Surge in review and recommendations is a push back against constant algo recommendations.

“In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste,” Atluru wrote. Given that the Internet offers us so many options, the choice of what to pay attention to, what to consume, or even what to create matters most.

• Taste helps us curate a world full of more and more junk.

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