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The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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Post by bee_rider »

medstrom wrote: post #115
IggleSniggle wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Frankly, Id be worried with social and ad tech companies on my resume. I basically throw these away now. I sort of unintentionally ended up in ad tech recently, and deeply regret it. I enjoy the technical issues, but...ironically, anybody who would throw out my resume because it has ad tech on it is exactly the kind of person I would want to work for. C'est le vie, I guess I'll stay in ad tech.

Can you not remove it from your own resume?

I assume there exist people out there for whom that would leave a couple years gap, unfortunately.

Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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Post by hk__2 »

dpifke wrote: post #149
Toine wrote: post #11

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It was completely dead and buried at least 5 years ago.

Definitely longer than that. My favorite "Twitter is dying" is from 2012: https://i.insider.com/4f4f8f0d6bb3f71e5700002b

Well to be honest it hasn’t been particularly alive since then.

Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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Post by adventurer »

function_seven wrote: post #106
Retric wrote: post #74

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Reputation is still valuable over time. Some YouTube creators I ignore irregardless of the thumbnail, while other content creators get a click automatically. The same happens with websites and everywhere else in the attention economy.

> while other content creators get a click automatically. A number of times now Youtube has shown me a video recommendation that I ignored for days. The thumbnail with that stupid "gobsmacked" expression of the creator (:-O) with some dumb headline in big block letters ("IS GRAVITY A LIE?"). You know what I'm talking about. Then I finally get around to looking at it closer, and it turns out it's one of my favorite ch…

The Mr. Beast thumbnail O face because everything you post has to be something you HAVE to click on.

Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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Post by CrzyLngPwd »

I tweaked all my social media down from following thousands of people to following ~100 that I really know and love.

The result was amazing, a truly transformative social media experience.

I don't care about likes or comments, they are irrelevant to me, I just love seeing what people are up to, I comment and like when I mean it, and I often get to the end of the feed with no more scrolling to do.

I reduced my FB friends from around 3,700 a few years ago, followed by also removing liked pages and groups that no longer interested me or that I had liked out of politeness - and the lovely result of that led me to doing it elsewhere.

Best decison, no question of it.

Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

the_snooze wrote: post #26

>And yes, on the surface this incentivizes people to create better content. The better your content is, the more it gets seen, and the more money you make. And yet, my felt experience of this change is the exact opposite—as people seek more engagement, their content gets worse. What’s going on here? It always tickles me when terminally online people realize that human connection doesn't scale . It's valuable precisel…

Following and being a leader, with status, from a far, is also a form human connection.

Religions have already for centuries scaled that, mostly by being an idol & not getting personal. Whether that's a priest, or a Tibetan Lama, they normally don't mingle, they do this be not being "authentic" but by representing an idea or principle.

That's what a lot social media "influecners" are trying to accomplish. And what personal branding attempts to do.

Is it wanted? Probably not. But it's definitely somethng that connect to the human psyche.

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Post by bee_rider »

spacecadet wrote: post #41
spacecadet wrote: post #31

Just abandon these products, they are useless and I think we have all seen enough evidence to suggest they do more harm than good. Dont start splitting hairs here either, I understand and was there when Twitter was the only way to communicate when governments were putting down protests... There are other tools. Go out there and build them... I wont ever touch a spycloud again while protesting...

This actually infuriates me. All those people who spent the last 20 years building adtech and social media. Thanks! You created a world that is now skeptical of tech and makes the rest of our jobs harder. Frankly, Id be worried with social and ad tech companies on my resume. I basically throw these away now.

Some day it will be seen as a ridiculous thing like Tulip Mania, except in this case it requires much more smarts. Also we needed a ton of STEM smarts to prevent a climate disaster, oops.

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Post by marcosdumay »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #152
narcraft wrote: post #135

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People say that people use literally to mean figuratively now which is literally the opposite of literally, but I've literally never seen someone use literally to mean figuratively. I have often seen it used to hyperbolize the strength of analogies or generalizations, which means they apply literally somewhat figuratively, but that doesn't mean that they literally mean for literally to mean figuratively.

Literally is literally a point. Figuratively is a point only figuratively, literally it is a continuum. If you're not using literally to literally mean literally, you are literally using it to mean figuratively.

People are just not literally-absolutists. They believe literally exists in a continuum.

That means they disagree with you on the definition of the word, but it doesn't make it a synonym of figuratively.

Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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Post by 0x4d464d48 »

w10-1 wrote: post #210
the_snooze wrote: post #26

>And yes, on the surface this incentivizes people to create better content. The better your content is, the more it gets seen, and the more money you make. And yet, my felt experience of this change is the exact opposite—as people seek more engagement, their content gets worse. What’s going on here? It always tickles me when terminally online people realize that human connection doesn't scale . It's valuable precisel…

fyi, I can't get used to the term me*space. I can hardly type it. It articulates a level of contempt for humanity that can only be borne of complete dissociation or deep hatred. I know that's not how it's meant, but I really, really encourage people to avoid using the term. Strangely, I don't feel the same way when some wisdom traditions remind us that we are mortal (a bag of bones comes to mind), or in response to a…

I disagree. I find it humorous and endering.

Meatspace, to me, is a term that encapsulates the authenticity of being a blood and bone human being and all of the foibles that come with it. Cyberspace, at least so far as social media is concerned, is a perpetual performance where what matters is how strangers feel about you and how they feel about you is often indepedant of what you actually do in meatspace.

To me cyberspace shines with a much stronger contempt for humanity than meatspace. Meatspace simply demands you be the lump of meat that you are while cyberspace demands that you please a judgemental and often quarrelsome mob.

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Post by hk__2 »

Jabbles wrote: post #189

The same could be said of Airbnb or Etsy, where the original vision of individual, personal inventory was displaced by more profitable, professionally managed, mass produced entities.

> The same could be said of Airbnb or Etsy, where the original vision of individual, personal inventory was displaced by more profitable, professionally managed, mass produced entities.

This is called capitalism. The issue is a bit different here, because Twitter is a social media, not Airbnb nor Etsy.

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Post by [deleted] »

the_snooze wrote: post #26

>And yes, on the surface this incentivizes people to create better content. The better your content is, the more it gets seen, and the more money you make. And yet, my felt experience of this change is the exact opposite—as people seek more engagement, their content gets worse. What’s going on here? It always tickles me when terminally online people realize that human connection doesn't scale . It's valuable precisel…

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