Facebook has become a moneymaking marketing machine disguised as social interaction. Virtually everything posted is clickbait disguised as entertainment. We live in a fake world, populated by merchandisers hiding behind cute cat videos. There, I said it.
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MisterForYou: Facebook has become a moneymaking marketing machine disguised as social interaction. Virtually everything posted is clickbait disguised as entertainment. We live in a fake world, populated by merchandisers hiding behind cute cat videos. There, I said it.
it is what one wishes it to be. Take what you need. But to receive. One must show how it happens. Time actually is your friend if one looks and learns and teaches too. What would oneself want to happen
MisterForYou: Facebook has become a moneymaking marketing machine disguised as social interaction. Virtually everything posted is clickbait disguised as entertainment. We live in a fake world, populated by merchandisers hiding behind cute cat videos. There, I said it.
I had to sign up to Facebook just to get Messenger... (FB owns M)... I've 30 friends, all of them are in my phone directory, I really don't get this 500 to 1000 virtual friends malarkey...
Arthur_Sixpence: I had to sign up to Facebook just to get Messenger... (FB owns M)... I've 30 friends, all of them are in my phone directory, I really don't get this 500 to 1000 virtual friends malarkey...
People, like for instance a musician, would use it to promote their work and themselves. An audience is everything.
MisterForYou: Facebook has become a moneymaking marketing machine disguised as social interaction. Virtually everything posted is clickbait disguised as entertainment. We live in a fake world, populated by merchandisers hiding behind cute cat videos. There, I said it.
MisterForYou: Facebook has become a moneymaking marketing machine disguised as social interaction. Virtually everything posted is clickbait disguised as entertainment. We live in a fake world, populated by merchandisers hiding behind cute cat videos. There, I said it.
Yes it has but it allows me to stay in touch with my very wide-spread family and friends and I love it for that (and that alone)
MisterForYou: Facebook has become a moneymaking marketing machine disguised as social interaction. Virtually everything posted is clickbait disguised as entertainment. We live in a fake world, populated by merchandisers hiding behind cute cat videos. There, I said it.
Selling information is nothing new. The technology has changed some of the methods used to fool people into giving up their information. Now instead of making millions, their making billions off that information. Plus instead of just collecting and selling information, their also manipulating what information people can see on their sites or search engines while at the same time denying it.
I keep up with my relatives (aunts, uncles, and cousins) and friends from school with FaceBook which without it I would have no contact from them. My oldest cousin died of cancer recently. If I didn't have FaceBook, I would of never known about it nor be able to pass the information to my Mother who wants nothing to do with computers.
Arthur_Sixpence: I had to sign up to Facebook just to get Messenger... (FB owns M)... I've 30 friends, all of them are in my phone directory, I really don't get this 500 to 1000 virtual friends malarkey...
Why would you want to produce 500 to 1000 virtual friends ? On my facebook, I've got my real friends and aquaintances. That's not difficult, isn't it ? = Family, local town aquaintances, sports mates, distant friends, youth friends (re-found trough FB) .. etc
ALL (not some, but absolutely ALL..) social events over here are communicated through FB , apart from the official website of the organiser (think about... music events, theatre events, sports events, association/club life, open door days... etc etc etc) The reaon is, that no singular event website, has "members". Through facebook, event organisers can connect with individual people. Never seen those eventpages, where you can indicate (buttons): "Going", "Not going", "Interested" ... so that both organiser and the friends of the individual can get an idea on attendance. Without this specific FB tool, organisers would still be in the mid of the 20th century ... (flyers and telephone calls .. lol)
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