The Internet has given us a variety of platforms for our voices to be heard, but it's actually made our voices less effective.

Our voices are meant to address our needs, but now they often fail to do so, or even push us to do the opposite.

As more and more people have a need to be heard, and as it becomes profitable to provide a channel at no cost, there will be a proliferation of channels to be heard.

The proliferation of interactive/social commenting systems is a clear example:

The proliferation of channels creates a problem: it's harder to collect valuable feedback in a uniform way:

The Internet has unleashed the individuality of each and every human being, and as a result, we don't have the same problem with a simple single-choice, multiple-choice information-gathering mechanism: even if there are more options, it's still hard to describe my unique thoughts and feelings. Even if there are many options, it is difficult to describe my unique thoughts, so we prefer to express our feelings and opinions directly in words.

Words have a huge information-carrying capacity, which makes them difficult to collect. Generic opinion judgment can only give simple information, but opinion judgment itself is already a set of complex logic mechanisms, and it is very difficult to extract more informative voices from it.

Our voices, in the age of big data, are just low-nutrient things eaten by algorithms

Yes, the simple expression of emotion is a common aspiration, and the Internet gives us a lot of space to express our feelings.

But the world has gotten more and more complicated, and the days of right or wrong are long, long gone, and what you love is bound to be hated by someone else in another part of the world. You may be adding a grain of sand to one end of the scale, but that's only part of the dynamic balance between the two ends of the scale, and you're not doing the world any favors

Much of the deterioration of the internet may be due to the fact that it's becoming less and less useful to speak out

We've been on the internet for a long time now, and we've been doing that for a long time now, and we've been doing that for a lot longer. We're not getting the feedback we think we're getting when we speak up on the Internet, and that's negative feedback, which in the long run can lead to anger.

At the same time, in order to make our voices more useful/easier to hear or spread, we tend to use more aggressive content and communication strategies. It's a vicious cycle of positive feedback, and it's probably the mechanism that's fueling the growing number of Internet behaviors that we're seeing that cut through the underbelly.

Of course we can't change what's happening on the web, all we have to do is put ourselves in a relatively favorable position.

Less talk, more action, and proactively triggering some of the stats. If you don't like something, it's probably better to stomp on it than to yell at it in the comments section.

Since we can't escape the algorithms, let's make them work for us

And don't forget the ultimate goal: to get what we want.

The spread of information on the Internet may have given us the illusion that the power of the Internet to speak out can make it possible to shake things up in ways we could not have imagined before.

But this is a minority, and most of us are not the Chosen People, and it is not in our best interest to hope for the impossible.

The cost of direct communication is also getting lower now, and because fewer people are choosing this route, it is probably more likely that we will be successful in achieving our goals.