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Reminds me a bit of Tinder Gold "hide my age" feature. Everyone has their age shown unless you pay extra to hide it, so hiding almost always will look worse than your actual age.
I just set an absurdly older age, while keeping my age filter the same. The 23 year olds actually looking for that can be amused and interested. But since I said something now I guess I’ll have to pivot to something else.
It requires a very high amount of naiveness to think this could solve the issue. Only thing that will help is education of children, so that they understand their place in the world, to accept themselves, that the aesthetic standards provided in social networks are very high (but yet, as a central European my sensibility is a bit different than the one in other places -- I would suggest that this must be a stimulus t…
It's not just children that are negatively affected by these apps. It's everyone. The only way not to be affected is to not use them.
This is akin to the ability to "de-badge" a car, offered by German manufacturers, where the manufacturer logo is visible but the specific model is not. I.e. a Mercedes SL could be a $80,000 V6 or a $160,000 twin-turbo V12 and unless someone was clued into the differences (like the exhaust pipes) they wouldn't know. I've noticed anecdotally that in the US, most of the de-badged cars are the low end models -- people do…
The whole indirect signalling of cars is very interesting. In my country (North/Eastern Europe) you pay more (€500-€2000) for a license plate that has certain combinations of numbers such as 123 or 747. I've noticed that pretty much every Porsche has a plate like that. It's kind of silly, because people who have no clue that exists won't care at all. You can also go full on custom plates, the funniest I saw recently…
Do I understand this correctly, that you can only make likes invisible to yourself ? This seems about as useful as the "if you don't like it, just pretend it isn't there" school of moderation - namely not useful at all. Humans are social beings and acutely aware of status indicators. A like count is a status indicator, even if a stupid one. By hiding the count for everyone, the indicator would be removed, which I ima…
> This seems about as useful as the "if you don't like it, just pretend it isn't there" school of moderation - namely not useful at all.
But a feature like that makes "pretending it isn't there" much, much easier. I know from experience: Metafilter has had a similar feature for at least a decade, and it does help lessen a lot of the negative psychological effects caused by "likes."
This is akin to the ability to "de-badge" a car, offered by German manufacturers, where the manufacturer logo is visible but the specific model is not. I.e. a Mercedes SL could be a $80,000 V6 or a $160,000 twin-turbo V12 and unless someone was clued into the differences (like the exhaust pipes) they wouldn't know. I've noticed anecdotally that in the US, most of the de-badged cars are the low end models -- people do…
In the US cars are perhaps more of a status symbol? (not that they arnt elsewhere...)
So people remove the badges themselves from their cars.
Maybe the Europeans like a simpler design aestehtic? I checked and it's a no cost option to debadge your Porsche when you order it.
I say this as a European living in Australia, and my tastes in cars are different to my friends in all the ways you would expect!
I like Porsche, and have a 911. My Aussie mates like big V8s!
(who doesnt like a V8, but you get what I mean!)
And please no one get offended by my generalisations. Take it in the spirit intended :-)
I hope Twitter follows suit.
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Have the kids make a post to see who can get the most likes over a week, the teacher does a lame one as well ("read books this summer!"). Nobody likes the teachers post, until the last day when teacher buys 1000 likes for the post, blowing everyone away for $5. Now the kids know its all made up and the points don't matter.
> Now the kids know its all made up and the points don't matter. Careful, they might start questioning whether standardized testing can be gamed as well.
What I really need is a way to lock myself out of the account, especially Twitter, without suspending it. Like, disable the login for a day, but I am still on the platform. The electric fences I put up myself never work.
Have you tried just not using it?? Or developing self control?? Surely it's like saying bottles need to be harder to get into because I like drinking alcohol too much... Or cars need to accelerate slower because I love speeding and can't resist permanently holding down the accelerator pedal, even at risk to my own health and wellbeing
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I wonder if that education should also explicitly include how likes, ads and attention are correlated. Making them understand their place in the world is good but SM is a different take on that age-old problem.
Have the kids make a post to see who can get the most likes over a week, the teacher does a lame one as well ("read books this summer!"). Nobody likes the teachers post, until the last day when teacher buys 1000 likes for the post, blowing everyone away for $5. Now the kids know its all made up and the points don't matter.
This is akin to the ability to "de-badge" a car, offered by German manufacturers, where the manufacturer logo is visible but the specific model is not. I.e. a Mercedes SL could be a $80,000 V6 or a $160,000 twin-turbo V12 and unless someone was clued into the differences (like the exhaust pipes) they wouldn't know. I've noticed anecdotally that in the US, most of the de-badged cars are the low end models -- people do…