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Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by mcpackieh »

boppo1 wrote: post #27
nonethewiser wrote: post #15

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Is it really worse than insta? t. Insta user, never had tiktok

Istagram is an American country, so it should probably be considered to be counter to the national interests of any country other than America and maybe America's close strategic allies. Particularly, if you're the leader of a country America considers to be a strategic rival, then you should definitely give serious consideration to blocking American social media.

Personally I think it's bad for America too, but it's unlikely that they're deliberately inflicting damage to America in an act of information/culture warfare. But other countries, particularly America's rivals, would be wise to assume that's what is happening to them.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by rogerkirkness »

jessehattabaugh wrote: post #24
Eumenes wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd spend lots of real money to get rid of social media once and for all. Like thousands. It would do alot of good for society.

I'd pay $100 just to get my family to install Signal

Only way I have managed to do this is to burn the boats and become unreachable by other means lol.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by financypants »

jessehattabaugh wrote: post #24
Eumenes wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd spend lots of real money to get rid of social media once and for all. Like thousands. It would do alot of good for society.

I'd pay $100 just to get my family to install Signal

What do you currently use? Just a text message group? Is it because signal is e2e encrypted?

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by hedora »

dns_snek wrote: post #32
Hugsun wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The peer pressures to have an iPhone within a lot of groups are very real and strong. Having a "Blue bubble" is shunned in many circles [1]. It's a sad reality. A part of it is likely iPhones managed to create a class of their own whereas nobody cares what brand of 65" TV someone has or who designed their 300 m^2 house. [1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...

I'm not sure if this is directly relevant since parent was discussing the pressure of owning the latest iPhone , not just an iPhone. That said, I've read about the "blue bubble" phenomenon and it's truly a bizarre manifestation of consumerism. I'm European and the Android market share is really high over here, so I haven't witnessed it first hand.

The blue bubble thing isn’t about iMessage as much as it is about android messages sucking so hard it affects iOS users. SMS/RCS don’t support large files, (There’s no practical limit with iMessage) and video / images look like garbage. It intentionally corrupts the shit out of gps coordinates. It can’t even make decent audio or video calls. It’s tied to a phone number, and there’s no way to know if the recipient number even supports sms without sending one.

Also, green bubble messages are not e2e encrypted, and their contents are sold en masse to (or simply slurped up by) surveillance organizations.

iMessage has none of those issues. Signal only has a few of those problems. Its bubbles are blue (not by Apple’s doing, but still, blue bubbles, cross platform, and it is not intentionally a royal pain in the ass like android messaging).

Since you are in Europe, you probably don’t use SMS, and are therefore shunning the green bubbles just as much as any iOS user.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by bonestamp2 »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #36
nvoeiah wrote: post #4

>Among iPhone owners, a striking 91% of respondents indicate that they would prefer Apple to release the iPhone every other year rather than every year. Among respondents not owning the iPhone, this fraction is even larger, at 94%. I wonder why the 94% care so much about a phone that they do not even intend to own. I can't help but think that this study simply shows that more people should mind their own damn busines…

Not like they do much to the iPhone anymore. Why would a 14 Pro owner care about the 15 Pro?

Agreed, and maybe that's what the respondents are thinking too.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

jawns wrote: post #50

One of the contributing factors here is that we keep calling these "social networks," but that's not really what they're being used for. If you look at an average user's feed, it probably breaks down into 30% traditional advertising, 20% nontraditional advertising (via influencers and friends shilling for their employers and promoting their side hustles), 30% content by people they have no social relationship with (c…

Do people really use TikTok to keep up with their friends? I'd think it's mostly for pure entertainment, like Youtube or even MTV (the TV channel).

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by kaashif »

Buttons840 wrote: post #44
kaashif wrote: post #19

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I have literally asked people "would you pay $5 for this?" they say yes, then I tell them to buy it and they say no. When this kept happening I realised the only thing that matters in sales is... actually making sales. Everything else is window dressing.

> then I tell them to buy it and they say no Were you asking them to open their wallet and hand you 5 dollars and that's it, or were you asking them to go to an unfamiliar website, click around, enter their credit card information, and then spend time learning how to use the software, and do it all right now?

I think people just kind of don't expect you to have a card reader and be willing to take payment right there if it seems like you're just explaining your startup idea. They're just being nice to you.

It's all really dumb and obvious in hindsight.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by mcpackieh »

zlg_codes wrote: post #39
mkoubaa wrote: post #5

Reminds me of a high school fundraiser where students paid for 5 minute pauses to a day of nonstop beiber music

Sounds closer to terrorism than a wholesome fundraiser. I think maybe could do worse with Baby Shark or something.

Playing deliberately obnoxious music to a captive audience? Yeah that's a CIA torture technique. Unironically.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Post by Ryoung27 »

zlg_codes wrote: post #39
mkoubaa wrote: post #5

Reminds me of a high school fundraiser where students paid for 5 minute pauses to a day of nonstop beiber music

Sounds closer to terrorism than a wholesome fundraiser. I think maybe could do worse with Baby Shark or something.

When I was in school it was Hanson's mmmbop, but it didn't work so well because everyone where I was from didn't have so much so it was embraced.
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