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You see this alot on FB, “tag 10 friends in this ad to enter a draw” kind of thing. It is one of the reasons that social media is poisonous to genuine human rel
by gaius 8y ago
You see this alot on FB, “tag 10 friends in this ad to enter a draw” kind of thing. It is one of the reasons that social media is poisonous to genuine human relationships.
- XorNot 8y agoI have this vague suspicion that social media will die out with our generation because of this. It came along when we were all high school/college or so, and this big platform to refind old contacts was a surprising new experience. Then all of collectively went into the workforce and suddenly had public images to manage and so the whole thing very quickly became yet another advertising channel via tragedy of the commons.
- epicide 8y agoYou are way more optimistic than I am. Reconnecting with old acquaintances is just one (outdated, as you mention) use case of social media. They have become much more subversive (and profitable) as media/advertising engines. They'll survive as long as companies are willing to put money into advertising and enough people are influenced by (not even "suckered by") the ads. So basically forever.
- kakaorka 8y agoIf someone is really close to me, I don't mind them tagging me in stuff like that. But if we're just acquaintances, I hate it.
- gaius 8y agoWhat really hurt was knowing people thought I was the sort of guy who would be interested in blatantly fake Raybans and suchlike...
- zimpenfish 8y agoFrom what I've seen, the fake Raybans tagging thing is almost always due to someone's account being hijacked.
- QuantumGood 8y agoI have never, ever seen anything like that on Facebook, at least not in years, though I know it exists. But I use tools to curate my feed pretty aggressively.