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Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Post by jstarfish »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #186
jstarfish wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> While I'm aware my relationship wasn't perfect, the standards promoted by those aesthetic Insta influencers were really impossible to obtain in real life. In the 4 months I dabbled with Instagram, I was shocked by how toxic and outright false the pop psychology memes were. They were stereotypical, frequently backwards, and deliberately misapplied. And all of that is before the cluster-B LARPing. "Your partner won't…

I saw a youtube short like this. It was a video demonstrating the "perfect" guy. It started reasonable, with him saying "oh can you check this on my phone? the passcode is XYZ" Yeah, I would have trusted my current-wife then-girlfriend with my phone passcode pretty early on, no big deal. She didn't feel the need to know it, but casually telling it to her so she could do something with it is probably a thing that happ…

> But it started to veer completely weird after that, about abandoning all his friends and stuff. It turned into a giant WTF for me.

Yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about. It's long-game triangulation, which is little more than domestic violence perpetrated by the other partner. But men are supposed to feel ashamed of themselves if they're not willing to just blindly go along with it.

The irony is, they call this sort of victim the "ideal" guy, while simultaneously deriding him as a "simp" to the rest of their cliques. It's loathesome. I pity anybody involved in the dating game these days.

Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Post by cloverich »

autoexec wrote: post #173
tristor wrote: post #43

My wife convinced me to install Instagram so she could send me videos of stuff. My experience was that at first it was annoying, then I found out I could follow some cool hobbyist folks working on cars, old computer systems, electronics, and of course all the mechanical keyboard content, as well as travel (I'm an extensive world traveler and used to post travel content on Instagram over 5 years ago) and I got sucked…

> Ads, the ads are bad because they're well targeted and mostly for things which are unnecessary or scams/knockoffs. I found myself buying things I didn't need from dubious brands. I make it a rule to never click on an ad no matter what. On the rare occasion I see any ad at all, if I do see something I think I want, I'll search for it later on my own. That let's me look at reviews, compare other similar items, and it…

You don't have to click on ads to be fed relevant ads. Your search history, app usage history, browsing history, credit card purchase history, location history, your social network (using any of those signals), can all be aggregated to profile you and your (potential) interests.

Searching and purchasing the item later can and (often but not always) is fed back to the system so it knows you purchased something you got an ad for.

Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Post by lavender123 »

Interesting article, but the information here is skewed in two ways. If the data were normalized in relation to how many users or downloads they have we would get a better picture. Also the search use skews towards cases where users need to search for how to delete their app or deactivate an account vs just doing it (apps that make it difficult or user base who needs help doing this).

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Post by pookha »

lmedinas wrote: post #123

My social media experience nowadays: - Twitter post-Musk: most of the interesting people i followed moved to Mastodon and stopped posting interesting content on Twitter. Plus App and Site went slower, same old trolls and Musk now is the center of attentions. No removed, since i go there once in a while to read what the Crypto community has to speculate. - Facebook: I refuse to use, i have absolute no interest to see…

Mastodon is great...I like how all of the wild ass american taliban leftist people are leaving twitter to go join their own boxed in caliphate's. It's a better situation for the world in general. let these maniacs cancel themselves on their own ruby servers vs polluting Twitter with their nonsense.

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Post by harry8 »

Zak wrote: post #165
jvm___ wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the ideas that the world will be perfect if you would just think thoughts like these... "manifest what you want from the world" and "think positive thoughts and everything will be ok" Is actually kind of true when you think about all the algorithms that run social media. If you only ever search for cats and scroll past anything political, the algorithms will learn what you like and feed you more cats. So, if you'…

Youtube occasionally, but regularly tries to show me culture war content even though I never watch it and usually tell it "don't recommend this".

It's like those "drug pushers" we were told about in school but don't seem to actually exist who use weed to constantly try to get you onto more lucrative for them heroin no matter how many times you say "no thanks." Heard that so many times at school, never heard anyone encountering anything like it in the real world.

But here we are with google, facebrick et al saying "come on, just try a little culture war" because its lucrative for them, no matter how many times you say no thank you.

It's really sick but yeah, obviously lucrative and Larry, Seregey & Mark clearly need the money.

Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Post by jvm___ »

Zak wrote: post #165
jvm___ wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the ideas that the world will be perfect if you would just think thoughts like these... "manifest what you want from the world" and "think positive thoughts and everything will be ok" Is actually kind of true when you think about all the algorithms that run social media. If you only ever search for cats and scroll past anything political, the algorithms will learn what you like and feed you more cats. So, if you'…

Youtube occasionally, but regularly tries to show me culture war content even though I never watch it and usually tell it "don't recommend this".

The gaps of "what do we show now" are filled with popular content, so culture war content is what you notice but there's probably other tamer things that only the algorithms know is popular.

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Post by pessimizer »

lavender123 wrote: post #193

Interesting article, but the information here is skewed in two ways. If the data were normalized in relation to how many users or downloads they have we would get a better picture. Also the search use skews towards cases where users need to search for how to delete their app or deactivate an account vs just doing it (apps that make it difficult or user base who needs help doing this).

> Also the search use skews towards cases where users need to search for how to delete their app or deactivate an account vs just doing it (apps that make it difficult or user base who needs help doing this).

But this is a very good thing to know and to be concerned about.

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Post by pessimizer »

nlh wrote: post #41

A personal anecdote: I use Instagram for my hobby/business (coin & paper money collecting & dealing). I have mercilessly curated my feed to be ONLY people who post content purely related to the numismatic world. No real-life friends, no travel posts from random semi-friends, no selfies, none of that garbage. If someone starts posting it, I unfollow them. And for the ads -- I click on ads related to cat toys and pet f…

> SO: My instagram feed is 100% hobby-related posts & cats. I think I may be victorious (for the time being....).

Eventually they'll figure out how to keep you from doing that.

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Post by yodsanklai »

mbesto wrote: post #142
yodsanklai wrote: post #140

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> However when the mirrors are mass produced and cheap and you have no control over their place in your life, you have control to not use this application. It's not like you're forced to use it. You can also go there casually to see your friends pictures without thinking too much about it.

You also have control to not be a celebrity and avoid the paparazzi. This is the parent's point. While you may have free will, it's hard to argue that having cheap access to fame is not appealing to everyone.

A lot of things can be bad if abused. Alcohol, eating, watching TV, video games even healthy activities like sport can be addictive or have risk of injuries. Social medias aren't different. They are entirely harmless for most people. Not that a big of a deal.

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Post by standardUser »

nlh wrote: post #41

A personal anecdote: I use Instagram for my hobby/business (coin & paper money collecting & dealing). I have mercilessly curated my feed to be ONLY people who post content purely related to the numismatic world. No real-life friends, no travel posts from random semi-friends, no selfies, none of that garbage. If someone starts posting it, I unfollow them. And for the ads -- I click on ads related to cat toys and pet f…

I've trained my Insta account to mostly show me animal videos, baseball highlights and funny memes. It's great.
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