Apr 04, 2019 20:00:00

'SNS is unhealthy,' said Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, in an interview

Rina Torvalds is famous as a person who developed Linux, but in an interview published in Linux Journal in April 2019, SNS such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. are unhealthy and people's bad behavior Critics are drawing out.

25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds | Linux Journal
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds

Mr. Torvalds says that the mechanism of 'like' and 'share' is very bad in SNS. These actions are very easy to do with just a few clicks at the same time, so it's easy to do a like or share before trying to see if the information is really valuable. Torvalds criticizes these buttons as 'designed to elicit an emotional response such as justice.'

Mr. Torvalds further noted that 'anonymity is overvalued,' 'Anonymity is very unpleasant. It is free to write, share and like things that are boring, but if you don't even put your real name there, it's It is totally useless. ' Furthermore, while admitting that there is a place where anonymity becomes important such as whistleblowing, 'the crazy anger on the SNS of an anonymous person who can not prove his identity should not be shown, and such an anonymous person shares such a post again' It's not good to be able to do something like 'I'm pointing out that using SNS anonymously is a hotbed of hate.

With the advent of mechanisms such as sharing and retweets, and the ability to spread information easily, the Internet is now flooded with lower quality information. Mr. Torvalds has warned about the way it should be on social networks, as incidents such as the killing of innocents by crowds incited by fake news also occur.