Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that consistently outweigh the content of people
  • Kraiden
    88•4 months ago

    those running Facebook groups routinely find that their content isn’t even being shown to those who choose to follow them thanks to Meta’s outright abusive approach to social media where the customer is not only wrong, but should ideally have little control over what they see.

    inhales deeply YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER!!! YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!!!

    It astounds me how many people STILL don’t understand this

    • @[email protected]English
      -31•4 months ago

      it doesn’t make sense, just say they’re exploiting customers. Saying “you are product” just make people take it literally and think Facebook is wrapping people up and selling them whole package, organ and brain included, which is nonsense

      • @then_three_moreEnglish
        17•4 months ago

        Only if you don’t think about it.

        First you should stop and think: What is a customer?

        A customer is someone that a company makes money from.

        Then you think: What money have I given Facebook?

        None (or extremely little)

        Then you think: But Facebook makes billions. How do they do this?

        They have loads of very targeted adverts.

        So we who are Facebook’s customers?

        Advertising companies.

        What makes ad space on Facebook valuable?

        Their ability to target those ads to the right people based off of the data they have about them and to get you (the product) to see those ads.

      • @slickgoatEnglish
        12•4 months ago

        Only if you are insanely literal. You are most definitely the product.

      • @olympicyesEnglish
        6•4 months ago

        Facebook is a cookbook! It was there in the name the whole time!!!

      • Kraiden
        5•4 months ago

        They should take it literally, because it is meant literally!

        They’re not exploiting customers, they are exploiting people. Those people are NOT their customers.

        Facebook is literally selling people in data form. Everything you post, everyone you interact with, everything you look at across most of the web (not just facebook.com) is all catalogued and used to create a fingerprint that is a digital representation of you, and that is their product! “Essence of /u/Melt for sale here”

        Their customers are advertisers.

        ETA: Link

      • @tootoughtorememberEnglish
        4•4 months ago

        Saying “you are product” just make people take it literally and think Facebook is wrapping people up and selling them whole package, organ and brain included, which is nonsense

        You’re the only person I’ve ever seen who has taken this expression literally.

        • @BuddahrifficEnglish
          4•4 months ago

          Seems like I’ve been seeing more and more comments on Lemmy that are dumb takes like the one above. Makes me wonder if Lemmy is on the radar of more of the bad faith posters sowing division but having no idea how to get through to the demographic here.

      • Steal WoolEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        Sounds like you’ve been having a lot conversations with 7 year olds, weird.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•4 months ago

        Damn metaphors must scare the shit out of you, huh.

        And no I don’t mean you literally defecate at the thought.