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According to The Guardian, one of world’s biggest advertisers — Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Their chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".
If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.
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You can't have your cake and let your neighbor eat it too.
-- Ayn Rand
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:16PM (1 child)
That's what everybody who gets into it says.
Until they find out it has taken over their lives.
Its what Facebook wants you to say! (Zuckie thanks you for playing along).
The thing is, humans were never intended to hang onto every person they ever met. People come into your life, you interact with them for a few years, and they leave. Let them go. You're old enough to make new friends, you don't need the same clowns you went to highschool hanging around, nor your sister's ex, your creepy uncle that you met exactly once.
Pretty soon Facebook is your source of news, none of it vetted. You can't get out of bed in the morning without checking Facebook, nor go to bed any night without posting or commenting. Instead of letting people wonder whether you are an idiot, you start clicking those keys and prove it to everyone by responding to someone's picture of their lunch.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 14 2018, @10:04AM
Really? That's quite sad, if that's how people use it.
I created a Facebook account when it first started because I had been watching social media platforms since Yahoo, Meetup, Friendster, and other predecessors and was interested in how Facebook's approach achieved greater viral spread than others did. It was novel at that time to reconnect with people I hadn't talked to since grade school. But after a handful of awkward exchanges when it was clear I had nothing in common with people who had never left the small town where we were children, I walked away from the platform and haven't touched it since.
So, you're right--it's not natural for us to stay in touch with everyone forever, because we ourselves don't remain the same people, with the same interests. If we lose the ability to move on with the networks of people we know, then we lose the ability to reinvent ourselves as what we hope will be a better iteration.
Washington DC delenda est.