I though people like to show off the like count on insta...
Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
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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.
Depending on the age of the kids, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the kids had bought likes, too.
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Do people in the US really talk about how much they earn? I had the impression that doing so was socially awkward.
They do, and in circles where doing it is gauche, the signal it through other means. The more elite you are, the more indirectly you signal it.
> The more elite you are, the more indirectly you signal it.
I don't see how that's so different from de-badging the highest end car models then. People can still see its expensive, it's just more indirect.
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They do, and in circles where doing it is gauche, the signal it through other means. The more elite you are, the more indirectly you signal it.
> The more elite you are, the more indirectly you signal it. I don't see how that's so different from de-badging the highest end car models then. People can still see its expensive, it's just more indirect.
Larry David's 'The Anonymous Donor' on Curb Your Enthusiasm exposes this masterfully https://curb-your-enthusiasm.fandom.com/wiki/The_Anonymous_D...
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#215This 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…
Here in Germany, I know some people debadged their cars so they wouldn't get stolen so quickly.
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OTOH, now that disabling likes is an option, we can form a cultural norm that enabling likes on your post is a shame-worthy, petty, insecure, attention-seeking behavior.
who is we? and why would the typical social media user care what "we" think?
Precisely because the average social media user is petty, insecure, and attention-seeking. Like shaming is a fabulous concept I for one could get behind. Next up do follows, replies and retweets, and eventually people might slowly begin to measure social proof for themselves once more.
Can you imagine Donald Trump's twitter account with all those idiotic metrics scrubbed from it? It would have been a beautiful sight, just an angry old man typing in caps to himself
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Wow, imagine major religions eventually taking the next step to building their own official social media ecosystems, built by programmer priests.
Yeah, I like to imagine programmer monks hidden away working on assembly language for thousands of years. Reminds me of the book Anathem (great book, tons of Catholic imagery)
That would be awesome! The catholic church certainly has the resources to do that kind of thing, and churches are already like a sort of social network, so they have a very captive audience. They are in a unique position to create a social network that doesn't need to monetize through any kind of ads or data collection, and I imagine their status as a religious organization can even get them tax breaks.
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At the very least it'd help with the US's vanity complex. My whole life as a kid prior to social media was just "live." Post social media, now I borderline need to make a post here and there to prove I'm not a schizoid.
Screw that - don't let the people on the Internet live rent free in your head. You don't have to post to prove anything.
You don't, but depending on your age, it certainly can help. Sometimes being a socialite can do more for you than just caring about money and privacy.
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#219Wow my mental health seems to have improved significantly since they added this feature!
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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…
We call "latin" numbers "arabic" in English, because Europe received them from the Maghreb. "Latin numbers" is actually closer to "Roman numerals," what we call the old Latin system (V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, &c)
I call them Indian numerals because they're from India.