This is great news. The faster Meta can decline and people can reclaim their time the better.
It will just go somewhere else that you consider unworthy. The tools and methods we've developed to attract eyeballs are not going away.
Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline
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#22This isn't good news. I spoke with a 20 y.o. neighbor and she said that Insta was starting to fail. Her friends all noted that their posts weren't getting the number of likes they expected. When they all noticed this, they decided it was because the ad ratios were changing because they needed the cash.
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#23I am a bit sad about the decline of Instagram. For a few years, I could watch the daily life of all my friends and acquaintances. Lots of organic communication and mutual engagement happened. Now only businesspeople, narcissists and (wannabe) influencers are left.
At this point I feel embarrassed to upload anything. Not that it matters, engagement from other people is at an all time low. Comments seem to be mostly bots.
TikTok is an echo chamber of narcissists and people with unwarranted self importance, but dialed to 11, just like twitter, but with more ADHD. Reddit is the embodiment of mediocrity, ruled by wrongthink policing moderators.
I am not enjoying social media anymore, I feel there is no place for me.
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#24Why does a company that still has majority founder votes, and founder CEO do something like this? Zuckerberg can't be this dumb, his bonuses don't depend on the share price, so why destroy your company like this?
I just don't get it. If you think further than the next quarter this seems like a terrible long term choice. Can someone explain how a company like Meta arrives at a decision like this?
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#25This is great news. The faster Meta can decline and people can reclaim their time the better.
> This is great news. The faster Meta can decline and people can reclaim their time the better.
Why? Facebook's decline doesn't mean social media's decline. They'll just go to TikTok, which I understand is even worse [1].
[1] And by worse, I mean a slicker and more addictive product. It might feel more enjoyable, but that's actually worse, IMHO.
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#26Wow, i wonder if Facebook realizes how complacent they've become through such a relatively short period of dominance. They need to rely on the army of data scientists and smart people still left there to help guide their decision making through data. Increasing ad load solves the short term problem of depressed conversion reporting thanks to privacy changes in the Industry. It DOES NOT solve the business problem of a…
They are relying on their data scientists and the data scientists are saying:
"We did an A/B test and figured out that we can increase ad revenue by x if we increase amount of ads shown to users by y! We are geniuses!"
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#27I am a bit sad about the decline of Instagram. For a few years, I could watch the daily life of all my friends and acquaintances. Lots of organic communication and mutual engagement happened. Now only businesspeople, narcissists and (wannabe) influencers are left. At this point I feel embarrassed to upload anything. Not that it matters, engagement from other people is at an all time low. Comments seem to be mostly bo…
BeReal? I haven't tried it but the people I know who generally hate FB are having fun with it. It doesn't have ads yet though so it's in the honeymoon period.
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#28Already seeing those diminishing returns. They really are out of ideas aren't they?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
In reality it's being replaced by TikTok. End result is neither reclaiming time nor better politics ...
At least TikTok makes it easy to opt out of political programming. A couple of thumbs down presses whenever those show up in your feed does the trick.
For the moment, that is. I'm not saying this is an issue specific to TikTok, just that it's very easy for them to change how things work, just as Instagram is changing to increase ads.
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#30I am a bit sad about the decline of Instagram. For a few years, I could watch the daily life of all my friends and acquaintances. Lots of organic communication and mutual engagement happened. Now only businesspeople, narcissists and (wannabe) influencers are left. At this point I feel embarrassed to upload anything. Not that it matters, engagement from other people is at an all time low. Comments seem to be mostly bo…
This is why everyone is reverting to private group chats. Turns out being connected to everyone, everywhere, isn't that great.