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Btw, for all those who like to step in other aritcles about the concerns with social media, to tell us how it's just like TV was a few decades ago, this article
by addicted 8y ago
Btw, for all those who like to step in other aritcles about the concerns with social media, to tell us how it's just like TV was a few decades ago, this article shows why it absolutely is not.
The persoinal targeting provided by FB and the like makes it an entirely different beast from past experiences.
- Eridrus 8y agoIt's not like TV, it's like mail advertising, which was starting to get attention for its lack of transparency before the 2016 cycle got everyone hyper attuned to Facebook's issues.
- ardy42 8y ago> It's not like TV, it's like mail advertising Exactly. Targeted advertising is the junk mail that stuffs your mailbox and the spam that stuffs your inbox (or would, without massive technical mitigations). It's not the ads you see in a magazine or while watching TV.
- frabbit 8y agoAnd also the telephone `robocall' e.g. the Canadian conservative party`s voter suppression attempts : https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/key-facts-in-canada-s-robocalls-controversy-1.2736659 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/key-facts-in-canada-s-roboc...