Confessions of an Instagram Influencer

Post by razakel » Sat, Dec 03, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

lonewolf_ninja wrote: post #111

razakel wrote: post #72

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>Interesting, what do you think is the distinction? The greatest contributor to flourishing capitalism is strong consumerism. And the biggest driver of the consumerist mind is capitalist manipulation. They feed off of each other, and are so intertwined that it's hardly useful to refer to one without acknowledging that it comes with the other. It would be disingenuous to pretend the two aren't highly interrelated, but…

While your distinction about building a better mousetrap is true - the corporation building a better mousetrap needs more money to put into R&D and it can get more only if it is either marketing itself to investors (consumers in this scenario?) or gaining a larger market share by promoting themselves.

Post by at612 » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 9:10 PM UTC

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You want to stay alive longer so that you can have a positive influence in the lives of the people around you - your family, your friends. It's well documented that "happiness" comes from positive interactions with other people. In fact you are posting here because you seek to influence, which is great! That's what we're here for. Desire to influence = Marketing.

I assume you work in marketing. To you guys everything is marketing.

Post by at612 » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

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Bill Hicks never figured out the meaning of life. The entire purpose of life is to market. You get up in the morning and brush your teeth so that you're more marketable than the slob that doesn't. Everything you do can be traced back to marketing. The more people understand that, the better off they will be at handling life.

The purpose is not being marketed, is having sex. You market yourself so you can have better sex. At least that's what some people say, like when they claim Zuckerberg started The Facebook so people could get easily laid. I've also had interesting conversations saying the purpose is not sex but power. We do stuff the way we do because that might get us more power. Sociology is really interesting.

Post by ignasl » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 11:50 AM UTC

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That's not an ad, that's genuine interaction. The poster is not an actor(or someone trying to act a role), not an algorythm, not a corporation, not a marketer or salesperson. We must learn to discern between stuff if we want to consider ourselves "real-worlders" or whatever. If you get the concepts mixed up in your mind then your discernment gets distorted and you start conflating what's authentic and what's artifici…

Seemingly-genuine comments like that could be a plausible future step for escalation of advertising. I'd guess there are people who would "rent" access to their active social media accounts to a company operating a bot capable of writing subtle "recommendation"-style comments. Sort of a merger of blog-comment-spam-bots and paid "influencer" posts.