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Almost like building a business around “engagement” is a model that leads to a death spiral. Social media sites are basically giant MLM schemes that sell the idea that become real companies before the scheme runs out.
ahhh,,... I would say billions in revenue makes it anything but. A short lived idea, maybe, a novelty, maybe
MLMs make billions, but they are still MLMs.
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This is a dishonest answer. Tumblr died because it’s niche was adult content. Banning your niche is choosing to fail.
It doesn't seem dishonest to me; chasing those ad dollars are what led to the supremely stupid decision of banning one of their core niches.
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Users of FB have migrated to Instagram and WhatsApp (all owned by Meta) ... FB is now for old people / those who don't like new tech.
Instagram and Facebook don't have the functionality that Facebook has, that's the problem. Instagram is for photo sharing. Hell, it's not even for that... it's a dating app for women, that doesn't advertise itself as a dating app for women. WhatsApp is just another telephone and messaging app, there's not much special about it as far as I can tell. It's ICQ on a smartphone and I guess, maybe, a better interface. I wa…
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I don't understand your hesitation to share your photos (or at least, not based on that criteria). "[wouldn't] be welcome"? By whom? Facebook? Or your friends? Would that imply they'd rather see ads and shared crap content than original content? IMO Facebook needs an "original content only" setting. I block every single page that some idiot shares, but I'm not sure how much it helps. I will literally never want to se…
I totally get what he says. If your feed no longer feels like it's your feed, more like some bazar on your phone, than why post anything private?
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--that coupled with inability to realize that blasting ads at people doesnt make your product look better, it makes your product a source of frustration, and a daily/hourly annoyance, your product is associated with bad, and is avoided. the answer to the problem includes the concept of less is more.
Not really since no one’s cares about the annoyances-if they did no company would run ads but the exact opposite is true
Then why is adblocking so popular?
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Discord has completely displaced the need for other social media in my experience. And they get hundreds of dollars per year from me. If this isn’t a winning model, I don’t know what is.
Discord is completely useless for socializing with anyone who isn't in the IT industry. My mom, for instance, is NOT going to use Discord, but I can get her to use Facebook Messenger.
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Nope, even with items like fridges it's intentional. Most people have not bought a fridge in the last month. Most people will not buy one in the next month. Taking your estimated 99%, that leaves 1% who just bought a fridge but it doesn't work, or didn't fit their room, or for whatever other reason they've sent it for a refund... and are about to want a fridge again! 1% might sound low, but if you look at the group o…
But if I've bought a fridge from Amazon , and it doesn't work, surely the first thing I'm going to do is try to return it to Amazon ? Most people, after all, don't really have the spare money to buy two fridges at once, so they're going to want their money back from the first one before they buy the second. Once they've started the return process, then Amazon can start recommending new fridges to them. Again: this is…
Or maybe by the time they've fully made up their mind to return the fridge, it's often after they've first decided there is indeed a better fridge out there, and already chosen where to buy it in the day or two before they start a return. In which case the time to advertise to them would be the window after purchase and before initiating a return.
Maybe... etc.
I don't know for sure, having neither worked at Amazon nor tried to market fridges. But I have seen many examples of this sort of retargeting of people who've just bought something with ads of the same type of thing, where general intuition, even that of experienced marketers yet alone normal shoppers, made it seem like a dumb idea and yet the data actually did prove it was a great use of advertising.
So maybe your gut instinct is better than the ad conversion predictions Amazon's code is making, with all their data. But I'd be surprised.
Ugh, I detest that I have to use Facebook for anything at all.