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do they though? I consume Coca Cola, and so do approx 2B other earthing. Does Coca Cola have influence over me?

by jgalt212 9y ago

sidlls 9y ago
What makes you think the comparison is valid?
- Spivak 9y ago
  I believe his point is that a company's size should be irrelevant to this discussion.
  - sidlls 9y ago
    I disagree. The question he asks seems to me to be about how much influence FB has. Size doesn't seem to figure in his comment.
pageandrew 9y ago
Do you share your life, connect with your friends, and get your news from Coca Cola?
- DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
  Isn't that what ShareACoke.com is about?
  - pageandrew 9y ago
    Does ShareACoke.com have 2 billion users?
- jgalt212 9y ago
  I don't do any of that on facebook. The only FB product I use is WhatsApp and Instagram (view only).
rrrryhffyhg 9y ago
Coca cola reaches your stomach, Facebook reaches your social circle
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  You are what you eat, as they say, so...
deelowe 9y ago
I think we should be more concerned with ykk zippers. I mean, they have a near monopoly.
frebord 9y ago
Coca-cola doesn't petabytes of data on your intimate thoughts and conversations.
simonsarris 9y ago
When you buy a coke, is there an email from coke in your inbox the next day? When you interact with coke does it gently tailor what you see and what you do not see, month after month? If you cannot understand how people are influenced, maybe you'll never see the influencing happening. That doesn't make you immune, on the contrary...
- sg47 9y ago
  No, but it does make me want to drink a coke the next day and maybe more than one a day. I don't have the same problem with broccoli.
  - bussierem 9y ago
    His point is not that Coca-cola has _no_effect on you, but their effect on you is pretty much limited to getting you to drink Coke, because that's their goal. Facebook can, has, and certainly will continue to monitor and influence MOST aspects of peoples lives - social, political, religious, economic, etc. Just ads and subtle filtering of walls and ads alone is provably HUGE impact-wise.
- jgalt212 9y ago
  How does an automated email from FB that gets filtered into my FB folder that I never read actually influence me?
  - ionised 9y ago
    That's you. You do not represent everyone who uses Facebook.
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do they though? I consume Coca Cola, and so do approx 2B other earthing. Does Coca Cola have influence over me?

sidlls 9y ago

What makes you think the comparison is valid?

Spivak 9y ago
I believe his point is that a company's size should be irrelevant to this discussion.
- sidlls 9y ago
  I disagree. The question he asks seems to me to be about how much influence FB has. Size doesn't seem to figure in his comment.

pageandrew 9y ago

Do you share your life, connect with your friends, and get your news from Coca Cola?

DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
Isn't that what ShareACoke.com is about?
- pageandrew 9y ago
  Does ShareACoke.com have 2 billion users?
jgalt212 9y ago
I don't do any of that on facebook. The only FB product I use is WhatsApp and Instagram (view only).

rrrryhffyhg 9y ago

Coca cola reaches your stomach, Facebook reaches your social circle

TeMPOraL 9y ago
You are what you eat, as they say, so...

deelowe 9y ago

I think we should be more concerned with ykk zippers. I mean, they have a near monopoly.

frebord 9y ago

Coca-cola doesn't petabytes of data on your intimate thoughts and conversations.

simonsarris 9y ago

When you buy a coke, is there an email from coke in your inbox the next day? When you interact with coke does it gently tailor what you see and what you do not see, month after month? If you cannot understand how people are influenced, maybe you'll never see the influencing happening. That doesn't make you immune, on the contrary...

sg47 9y ago
No, but it does make me want to drink a coke the next day and maybe more than one a day. I don't have the same problem with broccoli.
- bussierem 9y ago
  His point is not that Coca-cola has _no_effect on you, but their effect on you is pretty much limited to getting you to drink Coke, because that's their goal. Facebook can, has, and certainly will continue to monitor and influence MOST aspects of peoples lives - social, political, religious, economic, etc. Just ads and subtle filtering of walls and ads alone is provably HUGE impact-wise.
jgalt212 9y ago
How does an automated email from FB that gets filtered into my FB folder that I never read actually influence me?
- ionised 9y ago
  That's you. You do not represent everyone who uses Facebook.

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