I suppose this is the same reason TV executives didn't spend all day watching "As the world turns" and "the $64,000 question" back in the day. They're the merc

I suppose this is the same reason TV executives didn't spend all day watching "As the world turns" and "the $64,000 question" back in the day. They're the merchants, not the product. The people who watch all day are the product. The people who obsessively check their instagram feeds for uplikes (or whatever they're called this week) are the product. I too am a social media conscientous objector. Partly because FB said they won't always offer information I create to my "friends." So why should I create it? Partly because I've really come to dislike getting sucked down a rabbit hole of stuff the social media companies machine learning knows will snag my attention. Partly because fake nuz is worthy of protest and boycott. Mostly because the charge humans get from accumulating "uplikes" is a soul-corrupting addiction. I could rant on about professor René Girard's mimetic theory and human yearning to think we're better than the next guy, and how one Peter Thiel helped FB corrupt Girard's work. But, bah. Back to work.