Good to know.
Second question,
Which one is more likely to spend demographic money to try to court younger white men from a low to middle income bracket?
Are young people still on Facebook? I thought it was just "for boomers" now.
ArcaneSlime
joined 3 years ago
I may be wrong (I left the algorithmic social medias when they abandoned linear timelines [kept reddit until about a year before the exodus, since only fedi]) but:
Is that not because that is the content you interact with (argumentatively, likely, but still) or hover over longer with their eye movement sensors, or all the other ways they track you, and so they think "ahh he 'likes' (hate engages with) this content so send more!" in a loop to keep you engaged and keep making money for them through advertisements?
Like, if you ignored that shit (and iirc there's often a way to "reset" your algorithm in some settings, after all, they want the data they sell to be accurate, it's more valuable to sell...) and started only liking/lingering on family shit and cats (how can you ignore the kitties after all), they'd send primarily that, yes?
I could be wrong about that, this is my understanding as an outsider, but I'm curious. At the end of the day I'll forever advocate for the end of such algorithmic practices entirely long term, and the end of one's individual involvement with it in the present moment: "Bruh get off that shit it is rotting your brain. Like actually, by design, and it wants to keep you locked in. Don't look at the Basilisk."
Some jobs ask for your social before you can even submit.
Pffft I ain't got one. Deleted that shit in 2014, keep up managers.
It’s one of the opening events of the Summer of Ludd, a weeklong series of talks and activities like how to flirt and date offline, mending, and learning to fight against data centers, all focused on getting people off their phones and into community.
Somewhat paradoxically, I hope they film and post these somewhere so that people like me who can't afford to travel can still benefit from the knowledge. Like, I know how to flirt and date offline (actually don't know how to online) but am too neurodivergent to understand where is appropriate now beyond bars (since I stopped Honky Tonkin' that is), mending is useful af and I could use improvement over my current skillset, fuck a goddamn data center, and I struggle to find cool things/events in my community now that everything is on facebook (beyond nature, but nature is a solitary pursuit and not conducive to meeting anyone besides other stoners, not that I'm complaining too hard but I don't only like other stoners.)
I'm somewhat of a luddite myself, but still recognize the value of the internet in spreading information (like posting the videos of those talks) and communication (which is just packet radio assisted by infrastructure, really).
A dude I know lit off a smoke bomb in the school bathroom "back in the day" and almost got me charged with Arson (I ain't no goddamn snitch).
Point is that isn't new, it has been a "bad idea" since the 90s.
Go with the old classic "ketchup packets folded up under the feet on the toilet seat" instead. Less criminal.
Idk, I don't use any of them, but I've definitely heard people say facebook is for the olds. I thought the kids had all moved to TikTok tbh.