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How Close are we to Peak Social Media?

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the hit-the-hate-button dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:55PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:55PM (#637264)

    The problem is that FB can easily use the "Where are they going to? I'll buy that" argument ...
    If Google or MS got their social networks to expand, they could kill FB (teens flocking to MS would be quite a sight).
    Smaller actors will be happy to cash in a few billion to get FBorged.

    The phone manufacturers/networks carry a responsibility too. Pre-installing the PB app isn't quite as bad as Win pre-installs, but it still helps FB retain people who might have hesitated.

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