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>>The problem is that ultimately the business' incentives aren't aligned with their users' Twitter and facebook's business model is to amplify hate between gro
by ejb999 5y ago
>>The problem is that ultimately the business' incentives aren't aligned with their users'
Twitter and facebook's business model is to amplify hate between groups of people with varying viewpoints and they got rich by encouraging people to get in other peoples faces and giving them a place to fight it out; might not have started out that way, but that IS the business model now.
It's really no difference than a boxing match promoter selling tickets to a fight, with fans on both sides cheering on their favorite boxer.
most people - if meeting in real life - could have put aside slight differences in viewpoints and converse on the things they do share common-ground, like actual adults.
- brigandish 5y ago> Twitter and facebook's business model is to amplify hate between groups of people with varying viewpoints and they got rich by encouraging people to get in other peoples faces and giving them a place to fight it out; might not have started out that way, but that IS the business model now. The comment you replied to makes sense to me as a money maker but I don't see where the money is made with yours, care to explain?
- ejb999 5y agoIf people hate each other enough, they feel a need to prove the other one wrong - so they do that on twitter and facebook, i.e. some 'red' person posts something, 20 blue people attach them back, a 'blue' person posts something, 20 'red' people attach them back. When people are attacking each other online, they are engaged online - and the longer the stay online, the more ads they see, the more money facebook and twitter etc make.