C. Thi Nguyen

Okay, let me run the case on social media and then we'll see if this applies to Rotten Tomatoes.

So here's my case against social media platforms, my worry about social media platforms.

One measure of how important a communication is, is how deeply it strikes people and whether it changes people.

And sometimes when I'm communicating to people, well, here's something I can do in the classroom.

I can say something weird and interesting and it falls flat on 80% of the people and like 20% of the people like get it.

Maybe like one person, it like totally moves them.

I can see in their face that they're,

Their life has been changed in that moment.

Now let's say that instead of looking at their faces, I'm interacting with them on a social media platform.

I do a post and most people do not like it.

And the one person hits like.

Like doesn't register the intensity of their relationship to it.

It doesn't register the fact that their life was changed by it.

It simply counts one, right?

So an important thing about likes on social media is there's a flattening aspect.

It only picks up whether or not someone was pro or con and then aggregates.

So let me back up.

So you're giving me a very suspicious look.

So let me try this.

Let's say that your audience is 1,000 people.