More and more social media seems like an all-in adult version of children's playground games, where nobody's ever out, and where the game — and the joke — just goes round and round, writes Virginia Trioli.
  • @cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
    17•1 year ago

    3 weeks without FB and IG (after meta forcing the choice between targets ads or insane price tag) and I’m loving it. Already read 5 books!

    • @Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      The fact that they are charging so much for the privilege of not seeing ads illustrates just how valuable your attention is.

      Blogs and News Sites should acknowledge they value of their readers and demand more for the right to display ads in their websites too.

      • @cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
        1•1 year ago

        They should actually pay us for using Facebook and Instagram!

        Joke asside though, user data is estimated to be approximately $2 a month for Facebook.

        https://www.carbonedge.com/insideedge/digital-transformation/how-much-is-your-data-worth

        The asking price is not a fair price but was never intended to be so either. They want you to just accept target ads. They don’t want users to actually chose the paying option. Besides that, even if you do pay, they won’t stop tracking you. They only offer to remove (targeted) ads. they’ll still track you and recommend/currate content based on your data. Theoretically, they won’t show you pepsi ads but can recommend pepsi content anyway and even take money for it. It won’t be an ad, just recommended Content

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    I’m starting to think of social media, and its endlessly repeated and imitated stories and reels and copy-cat posts and "hey I want to say that joke, too!

    And why do so many Gen X women post so many videos of themselves gazing blandly at you while the scrolling text blathers all the misery in their lives: bad mothers, awful husbands, terrible illnesses.

    And you strange American CookTokers: keep telling yourself whatever you need to think about that block of orange cheese in the middle of that tray of uncooked pasta.

    I do find myself wondering if that gorgeous little girl with the eyelashes who is constantly filmed saying all those impossibly adorable things is going to grow up to murder her mother …

    First it’s a video of cute baby watching her mother snore, next thing you’re running away with the lobster linguine guy — and before you know it, you’re a toxic wife.

    Have a safe and happy weekend and to round out OzMusic Month, two powerful First Nations voices — Emma Donovan and Kee’ahn and a soulful anthem to take us towards the end of 2023.

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