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It doesn't matter what people want. Big companies can afford to push something and force it on you until you think you want it.
by barkingcat 4y ago
It doesn't matter what people want. Big companies can afford to push something and force it on you until you think you want it.
- yunohn 4y agoWhy would people be forced to use Meta’s metaverse? Or any metaverse for that matter? This is nonsensical.
- brtkdotse 4y agoDo you have an example of something that was pushed upon people, forcing them to like it?
- mhb 4y agoMasks
- jamiek88 4y agoWell that’s just silly.
- jamiek88 4y agoYeah I just posted a similar question, can’t think of any and can think of the converse quite easily. Even Amazon couldn’t push the Amazon phone for example. The nearest I can think of is Xbox but that came out of the gate strong with halo and had a fandom.
- Theodores 4y agoHold that pitchfork: bottled water! Hydration. Bottled water was only available in specialist stores for putting in things like your car radiator. The only bottled water for drinking on the marketplace was 'Perrier'. It was fizzy and came in distinctive bottles. People bought it as often as they bought spirits and it would stay in the drinks cabinet for months. Then they started advertising it. After a few false starts the market for 'hydration' was established and paying money for something that came free from the tap was de rigeur. France and other European countries were ahead of the UK with bottled water, possibly because the tap water was not deemed potable. These brands soon took over the UK market and TV showed the adverts to rake in the consumers. The original word of 'thirsty' was swapped for the American 'hydration' and instead of asking if someone was thirsty you would ask them if they were properly hydrated. Clearly there was no government decree or cartel pointing guns at people and insisting that they forget the thirsty idea and public water faucets. Through marketing and the 'hydration word' they got the job done.
- jstanley 4y ago> because the tap water was not deemed potable So what were they doing in France before bottled water? Just going thirsty?
- Theodores 4y agoDrinking wine. In Ye Olden Days in the UK some fermented beer was 'drinking water'. In Ye Olden Days yeast strains were not the ones we have today. The yeast got killed by alcohol at a lower concentration. Drinking wine or beer all the time was fine when it was as weak as shandy. Waaait a minute! People used to drink lightly alcoholised drinks made from natural ingredients, recycling their receptacles? And now we pay for bottled water laced with plastics that render mankind infertile? I am going back to the old ways!
- jamiek88 4y agoI don’t think this is true, or at least i can’t think of any examples of a big company forcing a products success, I can only remember lots of counter examples.
- EnKopVand 4y ago> It doesn't matter what people want. Big companies can afford to push something and force it on you until you think you want it. Then why aren't Meta making sure all those youngsters join their platforms? I'm not going to pretend that advertisement doesn't work, but there is also a big difference between getting people to drink a Coke or a Pepsi and getting them to join a social media platform and actually spend time on it.
- zamalek 4y agoI agree with your conclusion, but not your reasoning. People are going to love it because very few people care about, or are even aware of, Zuck's voyeurism fetish. The loud reaction to this creepy behavior is actually unfathomly small compared to Facebook's active user base. The initial users then drag their entire sphere into it, often convincing people to ignore their own better judgment.
- woeirua 4y agoYeah… FBs experience with Portal would prove otherwise.