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I'm also a little annoyed by the fact that people use "algorithm" to refer to a "recommendation system" for social media. "Recommendation system" is really the term that one should use, and on top of that, one should really say that the system as a whole is using a heuristic to come up with the best-possible content rather than an algorithm.
...and looking at the Wikipedia page for "algorithm", apparently they even explicitly point this out:
It's probably not going away, since it's entered popular usage, but it really isn't a correct use of the computer science terminology.
It's kinda like someone decided to start calling the cylinders in a car's engine "the metal thing"...which they are, but are far from the only "metal thing" in a car. Then they accidentally messed up the classification and called it "the plastic thing". I mean, yeah, I get what people mean from context, same way an auto mechanic could interpret "the plastic thing" to mean "the cylinders", but it kind of gnaws at my soul every time I see it.