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Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Fri March 23, 2018 11:53 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
BurtReynolds wrote:Stop trying to live through me. I'm really quite boring and sad.
i bet you have more social contact than me

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Fri March 23, 2018 11:54 pm
by BurtReynolds
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote: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.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Fri March 23, 2018 11:55 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
BurtReynolds wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote: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

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Fri March 23, 2018 11:59 pm
by Orpheus
Kaius wrote:Ourselves
+ cruelty, misery, chronic loneliness, you know, all the things holding us back as a society.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sat March 24, 2018 12:13 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Orpheus wrote:
Kaius wrote:Ourselves
+ cruelty, misery, chronic loneliness, you know, all the things holding us back as a society.
hi nathan

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sat March 24, 2018 12:14 am
by BurtReynolds
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Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sat March 24, 2018 12:51 am
by bart
Kids these days!

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sat March 24, 2018 12:56 am
by Orpheus
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Orpheus wrote:
Kaius wrote:Ourselves
+ cruelty, misery, chronic loneliness, you know, all the things holding us back as a society.
hi nathan
Sup Lenny

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sat March 24, 2018 2:11 am
by 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.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sat March 24, 2018 2:42 am
by HeyGuys
Simple Torture wrote: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.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sun March 25, 2018 7:33 am
by BurtReynolds
pretty interesting thread: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976563870322999296

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Sun March 25, 2018 10:55 am
by 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.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Mon March 26, 2018 11:27 pm
by Bi_3
--- wrote:what are we being saved from again?
Trump's election being considered an actual thing that people just like us chose to do.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Mon March 26, 2018 11:33 pm
by 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?

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Mon March 26, 2018 11:36 pm
by Simple Torture
Sgt. Crackpot wrote: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

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue March 27, 2018 5:17 am
by simple schoolboy
BurtReynolds wrote: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.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue March 27, 2018 6:09 pm
by hlniv

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue March 27, 2018 6:57 pm
by 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?

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed March 28, 2018 7:49 pm
by Jammer XCI


:bammer:

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed March 28, 2018 7:51 pm
by HeyGuys
They called it