Oct 3, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
Social Media Algorithms and how they work can be quite difficult to grasp. What lever do you have to control the things that appear on your feed? And how do you influence to appear on other people's…
What is Algorithm? So don't worry, I am not about to give you, you know, any university lecture or anything.
So if you're asked what Algorithm is, Now, think of algorithm as a set of instructions or rules that helps a computer decide what to do.
Now, imagine you are in a party, you know, and the party, there are a lot of people.
And then, you know, what makes the party interesting? What makes every party interesting is the music.
and so the music cannot the dj cannot you know play every song at the same time now here is how algorithm works since the dj cannot play every song at the same time This is what it does.
If everybody suddenly starts shouting for old school, old school music, it might switch.
And if a particular song gets everybody on the dance floor, Just know it that the DJ is definitely going to, you know, keep repeating that song because everybody likes that song.
Now, the social media platform is constantly asking, especially when you log in, it is asking, okay, what does this person seem interested in? What post do they interact with? What videos do they watch? What do they keep and what do they share? And based on those signals, so the way you what you do on social media, those are the signals that the algorithm gets.
the platform is making predictions okay what do you like what do you interact with you know which post do you skip and that way it determines what to show you next so that's move let's move to another part and This is one of the questions that you ask as a social media user.
What is Algorithm? So don't worry, I am not about to give you, you know, any university lecture or anything.
So if you're asked what Algorithm is, Now, think of algorithm as a set of instructions or rules that helps a computer decide what to do.
Now, imagine you are in a party, you know, and the party, there are a lot of people.
And then, you know, what makes the party interesting? What makes every party interesting is the music.
and so the music cannot the dj cannot you know play every song at the same time now here is how algorithm works since the dj cannot play every song at the same time This is what it does.
If everybody suddenly starts shouting for old school, old school music, it might switch.
And if a particular song gets everybody on the dance floor, Just know it that the DJ is definitely going to, you know, keep repeating that song because everybody likes that song.
Now, the social media platform is constantly asking, especially when you log in, it is asking, okay, what does this person seem interested in? What post do they interact with? What videos do they watch? What do they keep and what do they share? And based on those signals, so the way you what you do on social media, those are the signals that the algorithm gets.
the platform is making predictions okay what do you like what do you interact with you know which post do you skip and that way it determines what to show you next so that's move let's move to another part and This is one of the questions that you ask as a social media user.
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