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Facebook has increasingly become a media property for boomers and the technically illiterate. It is the “spam folder” of the internet. We used to have to build
by themagician 7y ago
Facebook has increasingly become a media property for boomers and the technically illiterate. It is the “spam folder” of the internet. We used to have to build tech to filter spam, phishing and forwards with stupid nonsense and now we’ve got it all wrapped up nicely in the various a Facebook properties.
Facebook doesn’t realize that what it’s really become is humanities supermarket tabloid.
- bilekas 7y ago> It is the “spam folder” of the internet. I absolutley love this and I'm stealing it. I will point out though that those moron boomers who cant fact-check are all usually voters.. Easily influenced by the whims of BS.
- orbifold 7y agoIt will be remembered as the largest intellectual garbage heap in history. I feel sorry for the people that actual use it to share personal photos and memories. It would be like printing your family pictures in the Daily Mirror. Garbage Meme - Last Picture of your Ant Muriel 5 years ago - Avocado Advertisement
- buboard 7y agosame level as trash tv really. bottom-of-the-barrel quality, but sellable
- themagician 7y agoThat’s really the best way to describe it. YouTube has been trending the same way now for a while which is where it’s easiest to see. We’ve created these content ecosystems where the content is terrible and it’s just barely sellable. Like no one would actually pay for it, but with ad model you can create content that is just barely more valuable than nothing at all. Just barely. The value of the vast majority of content now approaches zero but never quite gets there, and that’s where we are now. Improvements in targeting ensure the content actually becomes worse over time while still being sellable.
- malloreon 7y agoExcept they own instagram too.
- themagician 7y agoInstagram is no better. Maybe worse.