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What's new, really? This is just another data point people are willingly handing over for Facebook to sell as per the terms of service.
Why don't we have a subscription based, non-tracking, ad-free social network yet??
I was just about to post to AskHN about how much data these social network behemoths can garner from unposted data, i.e., I write something into my status box or a comment like "fuck the police," then delete without posting, is that data gathered and mined? My gut and brain say yes, because it's easily possible to gather it and with the little bit of research I found no evidence that really shows one way or another w…
Would be fairly easy to verify with WireShark.
What can I sell these teens once I've identified them? Makeup? Clothes? Teen Spirit? I really hate both marketing people and advertising people (present company excluded of course),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UlapnsFLhc
I actually can't and it makes me very sad.
What can I sell these teens once I've identified them? Makeup? Clothes? Teen Spirit? I really hate both marketing people and advertising people (present company excluded of course),
I was just about to post to AskHN about how much data these social network behemoths can garner from unposted data, i.e., I write something into my status box or a comment like "fuck the police," then delete without posting, is that data gathered and mined? My gut and brain say yes, because it's easily possible to gather it and with the little bit of research I found no evidence that really shows one way or another w…
Is this supposed to be a bad thing? If I were a non-profit working on teen depression and suicide, this sounds like an amazing innovation. My intervention and education dollar would go much further. I don't understand the sinister outlook, especially from people who in other contexts--e.g. cryptography & terrorism--would adamantly claim that technology is neutral and that the net benefit from innovation is with rare…
Market forces aren't well suited, on their own, to deal with these kind of externalities.
What can I sell these teens once I've identified them? Makeup? Clothes? Teen Spirit? I really hate both marketing people and advertising people (present company excluded of course),
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Is that a serious question? Social networks are dependent on network effects. Having a subscription immediately increases the barrier to entry too high for people to be able to get their friends on the same platform.
What speaks against making subscription an option as with Spotify?
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Just asked my teenage siblings and both of them responded that they don't care that they are tracked and aren't sure why they'd pay. Only an anecdote, but there you go.
Maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part then :D
As long as no one else they know sees...