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With all the fuzz about FB, I find it remarkable when I engage with millenials : FB is irrelevant to them. So, what gives?
by the-dude 6y ago
With all the fuzz about FB, I find it remarkable when I engage with millenials : FB is irrelevant to them.
So, what gives?
- MattGaiser 6y agoInstagram isn’t though.
- searchableguy 6y agoWhat will make people switch anyway? They don't care much about security (evident by the recent twitter hack). They don't care much about privacy. They don't care much about functionality. Increasingly, I don't think people even care about the content or relationship/social aspect of the social media. My dad has like maximum number of friends on Facebook and I really doubt he actually engages with them. His feed is full of bullshit that he sometimes tell me about and is even self aware of a lot. Why do you use facebook despite that? He doesn't have an answer. I fear he is just addicted to scrolling when he has nothing to do. He is also using Facebook and whatsapp because of peer pressure. A weird phenomenon in india is how easily bullshit spreads on whatsapp. The reason is most people forward without even consuming the content. It's almost like they are getting rewarded for a completely different thing than the intended or well communicative purpose of the medium.
- MattGaiser 6y ago> It's almost like they are getting rewarded for a completely different thing than the intended or well communicative purpose of the medium. I suspect they find the engagement sufficient. They forward and someone comments. The dinging of the phone itself is exciting.
- dcow 6y ago> “We've consulted with many of our external partners over the past year to better understand implicit speech that has historically been used to disparage, intimidate or exclude people based on protected characteristics like race or religion,” said Facebook VP of Content Policy Monika Bickert in a phone call with the press. What gives is that the VP of Content Policy at a multi-billion dollar company has fallen victim to the rhetoric of a post-modernist black power cult. Abstractly, a business executive is leveraging their position of power to play activist for a political-social agenda rather than set policy shaped by a desire to build a neutral and open social platform. This is at best ethically shady and at worst an abuse of power. How this prevents the spread of misinformation and counters bubble-think, I fail to see. On top of that, if you actually examine the rhetoric it's 100% inconsistent. Critical thinking has fallen by the wayside in favor of the virtuous critical race theory. Nobody is thinking anymore and we're literally electing to censor truths, ugly as they may be, in order to push a totalitarian narrative. This should piss you off, fundamentally, not only because it's certifiably a bad idea, but because it is working to unravel our sense of objectivity which is required in most disciplines outside of sociology. We've seen it before. History will not look kindly back upon the movement we're experiencing. It's rather unsettling to see it play out if you ask me.
- CyberRabbi 6y agoThe power aspect of it is not black at all.
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- kgwgk 6y agoIsn't the peak in facebook demographics around 30?
- watwut 6y agoWhich would be exactly millenials.
- raverbashing 6y agoThe boomers are all over FB. And most of them are gullible to propaganda, vote and engage in polarizing discussions (not that any of those don't apply to millenials, but to a lesser extent)
- zozbot234 6y agoInteresting point. These policies do look like they would mostly impact that group.