Social Media: The God That Failed

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Stop trying to live through me. I'm really quite boring and sad.

i bet you have more social contact than me

[BurtReynolds]

Stop trying to live through me. I'm really quite boring and sad.

i bet you have more social contact than me

I talk to dogs more than humans.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Stop trying to live through me. I'm really quite boring and sad.

i bet you have more social contact than me

I talk to dogs more than humans.

at least we have dev

[Orpheus]

Ourselves

+ cruelty, misery, chronic loneliness, you know, all the things holding us back as a society.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Ourselves

+ cruelty, misery, chronic loneliness, you know, all the things holding us back as a society.

hi nathan

[BurtReynolds]

[bart]

Kids these days!

[Orpheus]

Ourselves

+ cruelty, misery, chronic loneliness, you know, all the things holding us back as a society.

hi nathan

Sup Lenny

[Simple Torture]

I can remember when the sole purpose of Facebook was to see which girls were in the same classes with you for each new semester. I think I may have even chosen a few courses based on that.

[HeyGuys]

I can remember when the sole purpose of Facebook was to see which girls were in the same classes with you for each new semester. I think I may have even chosen a few courses based on that.

That's how I ended up with a degree in women's studies.

[BurtReynolds]

pretty interesting thread: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976563870322999296

[BurtReynolds]

Though he does try to argue that Google is beneficial and Facebook is evil. Insanity. Google is doing the exact same things, and often worse.

[Bi_3]

what are we being saved from again?

Trump's election being considered an actual thing that people just like us chose to do.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

This is nothing new. RM has been mining and selling personal data for years. How do you think we run this place without advertising or sign up costs?

[Simple Torture]

This is nothing new. RM has been mining and selling personal data for years. How do you think we run this place without advertising or sign up costs?

From: Google (customerservice@google.com)
To: RM (mynameisb@gmail.com)

Subject: Our Primary Concern

To Whom It May Concern:

Please, please stop letting your members post in the human bass thread. It's making the algorithms uncomfortable.

Best,

Your Google Advertising Rep

[simple schoolboy]

pretty interesting thread: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976563870322999296

There was another tweet storm about how the real story here is how Facebook is controlling content producers, especially news outlets. Why should we care about the bottom line of these content producers more than the privacy implications for individuals? Seems like a weird conventional media take.

[hlniv]

[bune]

Since we're talking about it:

Bing [Bot], Google [Bot]

Who the hell are these guys? ("Hur, they're bots" gee, thanks.)

OK, how about what the hell are these guys?

[Jammer XCI]

[HeyGuys]

They called it