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From the Ted Talk by Wael Ghonim: Let's design social media that drives real change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But what if we put more focus on quality? What is more important: the total number of readers of a post you write, or who are the pepole who have impact that read what you write? Couldn't we just give people more incentives to engage in conversations, rather than just broadcasting opinions all the time? Or reward people for reading and responding to views that they disagree with? And also, make it socially acceptable that we cahgne our minds, or probably even reward that? What if we have a matrix that says how many people changed their minds, and that becomes part of our soical media ecxireenpe? If I could track how many people are changing their minds, I'd probably wirte more thoughtfully, trying to do that, rather than appealing to the people who already aerge with me and "liking" because I just cnrofmied their biases.

Open Cloze


But what if we put more focus on quality? What is more important: the total number of readers of a post you write, or who are the ______ who have impact that read what you write? Couldn't we just give people more incentives to engage in conversations, rather than just broadcasting opinions all the time? Or reward people for reading and responding to views that they disagree with? And also, make it socially acceptable that we ______ our minds, or probably even reward that? What if we have a matrix that says how many people changed their minds, and that becomes part of our ______ media __________? If I could track how many people are changing their minds, I'd probably _____ more thoughtfully, trying to do that, rather than appealing to the people who already _____ with me and "liking" because I just _________ their biases.

Solution


  1. change
  2. people
  3. write
  4. confirmed
  5. agree
  6. experience
  7. social

Original Text


But what if we put more focus on quality? What is more important: the total number of readers of a post you write, or who are the people who have impact that read what you write? Couldn't we just give people more incentives to engage in conversations, rather than just broadcasting opinions all the time? Or reward people for reading and responding to views that they disagree with? And also, make it socially acceptable that we change our minds, or probably even reward that? What if we have a matrix that says how many people changed their minds, and that becomes part of our social media experience? If I could track how many people are changing their minds, I'd probably write more thoughtfully, trying to do that, rather than appealing to the people who already agree with me and "liking" because I just confirmed their biases.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
social media 10
facebook page 2
anonymously created 2
hope egyptians 2
state security 2
echo chambers 2
hate speech 2
critical challenges 2
media experiences 2
reward people 2
mutual understanding 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
social media experiences 2

Important Words


  1. acceptable
  2. agree
  3. appealing
  4. biases
  5. broadcasting
  6. change
  7. changed
  8. changing
  9. confirmed
  10. conversations
  11. disagree
  12. engage
  13. experience
  14. focus
  15. give
  16. impact
  17. incentives
  18. matrix
  19. media
  20. minds
  21. number
  22. opinions
  23. part
  24. people
  25. post
  26. put
  27. quality
  28. read
  29. readers
  30. reading
  31. responding
  32. reward
  33. social
  34. socially
  35. thoughtfully
  36. time
  37. total
  38. track
  39. views
  40. write