Imagine Facebook or Instagram started out like how they feed in their current format, what value would they be trying to sell you on?
"Join our platform and input your thoughts and art. In return we output to you ads and take your thoughts and art to send low quality ads to other users."
Wow gee thanks. "But I get to keep in touch with my friends and family, right Facebook?" "No, you get regular posts by that one friend of a friend you made in college and your second cousin to remind you they're there, but otherwise we pretty much relegate you to six connections and the rest is ads."
"Well at least we get art on Instagram, right?" "Again, we relegate you to the last artist you followed, about once every six to eight posts, but no, you're here for the ads and our use of your artistic output."
"That doesn't seem like a very interesting or useful service." "Yeah well it was 15 years ago and now it's a LARGE userbase, so fucking pull your slot machine handle and see if you go viral or some shit. What are you gonna do, run your own website? Google stopped returning those results years ago."
Imagine Facebook or Instagram started out like how they feed in their current format, what value would they be trying to sell you on?
"Join our platform and input your thoughts and art. In return we output to you ads and take your thoughts and art to send low quality ads to other users."
Wow gee thanks. "But I get to keep in touch with my friends and family, right Facebook?" "No, you get regular posts by that one friend of a friend you made in college and your second cousin to remind you they're there, but otherwise we pretty much relegate you to six connections and the rest is ads."
"Well at least we get art on Instagram, right?" "Again, we relegate you to the last artist you followed, about once every six to eight posts, but no, you're here for the ads and our use of your artistic output."
"That doesn't seem like a very interesting or useful service." "Yeah well it was 15 years ago and now it's a LARGE userbase, so fucking pull your slot machine handle and see if you go viral or some shit. What are you gonna do, run your own website? Google stopped returning those results years ago."
Its all very bleak! On the positive side awareness about our tech lords manipulation is spreading. But will people choose to disconnect?