This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'll just say it:
Selling useless shit that kills the planet by keeping billions of people addicted to wasting their finite lives is morally wrong.
Nobody involved, whether it's the company, influencers, or viewers will look back it from their deathbeds and see any good in it whatsoever.
I'm not sure doing good is the goal of anyone involved.
Nah, plenty of these people will look back fondly on their sports cars, cocaine and lush homes.
That's because they didn't waste their money on plastic China waste while jerking a screen...appears that they actually lived a fulfilling lives while plebs were "entertained"
I'm not so sure. What I've heard is that pretty much everyone thinks about how they were with the people in their lives.
Just the thumbnail of greasy slobs shoveling trash into their mouths is pissing me off.
I honestly don't get it, but my SO is all over that nonsense. I honestly don't know why I'd ever want to watch someone else eat.
What does your SO say about it? My SO is into TikTok and sometimes I see her watching odd stuff too. She can't/hasn't tried to really articulate why.
They're just really into food. We watched a Korean cooking competition last night (Culinary Class Wars, basically Michelin star chefs vs other well-respected chefs), and it had a lot of that "watch other people eat" bits, but with some actual entertainment (i.e. descriptions of how dishes are prepared). My SO liked the descriptions of the food (mouth feel and whatnot), whereas I was more interested in the ingredients and cooking process.
I don't really understand it (food isn't particularly important to me), and they probably don't understand my weird fascination with other things (e.g. watching personal finance videos that I strongly disagree with), so I guess we just accept that we're into different things.
who. fucking. cares.
This "article" is straight astroturfing.
Like, there isnt like 90% of ShitTok / YT is just a paid mess of advertisment, sponsorships and self advertisments for their "Prime" flavored drink that gets you cancer if you arent subscribed.
gets you cancer if you arent subscribed
No no, the cancer is a Patreon-exclusive benefit.
Non-Patreons only get lead poisoning and holes in their brain.
How much do I have to pay to get anal fissures?
You have to subscribe to their OnlyFissures.com account, duh.
They got like three men group selling linchables knockoff
WTF is guy who employs pedophiles is so interested in marketing to kids....
This is exactly my take. I don’t understand humanity’s need to blame everyone and everything else for their own problems. Stop blaming tiktok for your dopamine addiction. Get help.
who. fucking. cares.
I mean, I'm kinda opposed to the intrusion of even more ads, personally.
Using a billion dollar company app and you want to complain about ads? Don't fucking use it.
What makes you think I fucking use it?
Ah yes what the world needs right now - even more scam peddlers. I for one thank our corporate overlords for deciding for us. A waste of natural resources in scale second only to the data-harvesting-marketing ouroboros
While true let's not remove the peasants agency here which they are willing exercise to "consoom"
Wasn't tiktok getting banned? Is that still happening?
I hope not, it's algorithm seems fun.
Millions? One is reminded of the pyramid scheme "problem" where it basically ends up as everybody can't actually be a salesman if the business is actually going to be viable. Right? Like who are you selling to if everyone else is in on it too?
TikTok also wants to turn millions of teenagers into "pranksters" who are just begging for a beating.
It's like the shittiest QVC and it's all over my fyp. I hate it. I'll see the same person selling the same stupid shirt so many times. There were like a dozen people selling a ghost night light. I caved and bought one because it's actually adorable and my wife loves that sort of stuff and I never give her spontaneous gifts, but it sags in the outlet lmao. Like it just nearly falls out. There's a bunch of people selling some tub scrubber too right now. It's so so annoying. I just wanna see shit posts.
Social media is bad for your brain. There's plenty of communities on lemmy full of shitposts.
Shitposters are the ~~bedroom~~ bedrock of the internet
Social media is bad for your brain. Social media is full of shit posts.
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Message boards are not social media.
That is definitely not how most people use that word lol, message boards are one of the oldest forms of social media around.
Social media is bad for your brain. There’s plenty of communities on lemmy
If social media is bad for your brain why is lemmy, a social media site, not?
Message boars are not social media.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Because message boards have existed both in physical and online for a god damn millenia before fucking facebook and myspace were a whisper in the balls of the creator's fathers. I have no fucking idea who any of you clown shoes are and I don't fucking care either.
Children playing show and tell is more social media than online message boards.
Because message boards have existed both in physical and online for a god damn millenia before fucking facebook and myspace were a whisper in the balls of the creator’s fathers. I have no fucking idea who any of you clown shoes are and I don’t fucking care either.
Children playing show and tell is more social media than online message boards.
Cool story.
Social Media, noun, forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20media
Social Media, Noun, websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and share information, opinions, pictures, videos, etc. on the internet, especially social networking websites:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/social-media
Have a good day.
And? I can post definitions too! Dictionaries are not that difficult to use.
message board noun
1: a board or sign on which messages or notices are displayed
an electronic message board
2: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages or to post or download files and that is accessed by computer over a network (such as the Internet)
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/message-board_n?tl=true
First known to be used in the 1700s.
And? I can post definitions too! Dictionaries are not that difficult to use.
message board noun 1: a board or sign on which messages or notices are displayed an electronic message board 2: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages or to post or download files and that is accessed by computer over a network (such as the Internet)
True, you can post definitions and demonstrate that dictionaries are very easy to use.
Try reading and understanding those definitions next.
When you are all caught up I won't be here to finish whatever it is you are trying for here.
Because social media is just that: media. They're platforms for ads and marketing that are more akin to broadcast media with a parasocial interactive twist. Contrast that with social networking which facilitates connections between actual people.
At some point in the last two decades, those distinctions have blurred, often to great shareholder benefit.
Because social media is just that: media. They’re platforms for ads and marketing that are more akin to broadcast media with a parasocial interactive twist. Contrast that with social networking which facilitates connections between actual people.
At some point in the last two decades, those distinctions have blurred, often to great shareholder benefit.
That is one way to say a lot while saying nothing at all, and it is weird how many people want to pretend they aren't using social media while using social media.
What are you doing to make "connections between actual people"? How is that different from anyone else using a different platform?
Lemmy is not social media to you because there is no one using it to advertise, market, or broadcast themselves to the greater population?
Or is it because there is no "media" available on the website?
Or is it just because you say so?
This reads like Facebook propaganda. If they are paying people who gives a fuck.
