Just putting some excerpts here on the parts that I wanted to add on, not a critic, yours are actually solid comments
I do think that as it is though, Meta has to have the unlikeable cores of Facebook.
But your point stands, companies are made of people, people can change, people in general don’t wake up in the morning with the explicit first goal of the day to doing harm. I would rather they change, correct course, work with what should have been the rules since the beginnings and adapt accordingly.
This is my personal opinion: my issue with targeted advertisement whether as a group or individually identifiable is that in practice is not that different, they will manage to get to me with some social voodoo hack to entice, engage, trigger dopamine hits, group thinking, consuming thinking, making a need out of useless things, spam me with credit scores services, credit limit increases, yet another car, enraging articles, news (some of them fake), so on and so forth. They can do this wether they know my actual full name, a unique random number assigned to me or as a group bucket that I would be put in as a match for said advertisement packet.
The advertisement industry, I used to think as a kid, was to make it aware that some product exists, briefly described and explained how it works. But it’s much more alike to drug dealing than not. And Facebook and social media in general enhances it who knows how many orders of magnitude more.
Solutions are obvious: swim like a natural (celebrities), self control until stamina runs out, teeth grind through it or get out.
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I did get out 99%, clicking almost never IG, TikTok, etc links sent by friends, but I have to pay the price of seeing from the outside what looks like all of the world activities happening there. That also being part of the design, “if you aren’t in it, then you are definitely out of the fun”.
And MacRumors? Heck yes, guilty ?
Those handcrafted titles are definitely written with a goal behind it.
Agreed on this, I tend to interpret it as Facebook/Meta changed. I wouldn’t want it to close either leaving potentially hundred thousand+ people out of a job, or if they have to do that then with several years worth of allowance for everybody, kinda tired of the stories about C-class executives that closed, fired and/or bankrupted x, y, z tech company, bank or retail store and congratulated themselves with $50million exit packages.
I do think that as it is though, Meta has to have the unlikeable cores of Facebook.
But your point stands, companies are made of people, people can change, people in general don’t wake up in the morning with the explicit first goal of the day to doing harm. I would rather they change, correct course, work with what should have been the rules since the beginnings and adapt accordingly.
The explanation and scopes you mention make total sense.
This is my personal opinion: my issue with targeted advertisement whether as a group or individually identifiable is that in practice is not that different, they will manage to get to me with some social voodoo hack to entice, engage, trigger dopamine hits, group thinking, consuming thinking, making a need out of useless things, spam me with credit scores services, credit limit increases, yet another car, enraging articles, news (some of them fake), so on and so forth. They can do this wether they know my actual full name, a unique random number assigned to me or as a group bucket that I would be put in as a match for said advertisement packet.
The advertisement industry, I used to think as a kid, was to make it aware that some product exists, briefly described and explained how it works. But it’s much more alike to drug dealing than not. And Facebook and social media in general enhances it who knows how many orders of magnitude more.
Solutions are obvious: swim like a natural (celebrities), self control until stamina runs out, teeth grind through it or get out.
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I did get out 99%, clicking almost never IG, TikTok, etc links sent by friends, but I have to pay the price of seeing from the outside what looks like all of the world activities happening there. That also being part of the design, “if you aren’t in it, then you are definitely out of the fun”.
And MacRumors? Heck yes, guilty ?
Those handcrafted titles are definitely written with a goal behind it.
