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> If you see something marked 80% off look for a similar item that’s five times as expensive When Facebook was first getting popular it triggered my bullshit d
by panarky 5y ago
> If you see something marked 80% off look for a similar item that’s five times as expensive
When Facebook was first getting popular it triggered my bullshit detector.
I smelled bullshit because the underlying mechanism was social coercion to join, followed by social comparison to make everyone miserable.
It wasn't bullshit because it was bogus, it was bullshit because it stank.
My friends all have similar bullshit detectors for the spammy, the scammy and the coercive. If I knew how teach it, I'd be surprised if anybody who didn't already have it would even want to learn it.
- Retric 5y agoThe same work through the implications rule shows how anti-social Facebook is. Sitting alone in your room looking through old photo albums isn’t social, but somehow going through other peoples photos is? Calling Facebook a social network is such a bold faced lie I am somewhat shocked anyone can say it with a strait face let alone honestly believe it. But it gets worse, calling clicking a like button on a news article “social” is such double think you almost wonder if these people are speaking the same language.