All these products have a beginning, a middle and an end.
As more and more people clamber on board the whole thing becomes top heavy and collapses under its own weight. Hard to imagine how invasive and fake future mass platforms will be like though...
The house always wins despite running a 'free' platform for people to load their content into...
An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
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#32Marketing and payola was the norm and is still the norm. Don't have a clue what this dude is talking about.
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#33What's interesting is that Facebook could easily clamp down on this: they certainly have the tools to monitor their network for "fake" accounts and identify activity by pools. Why wouldn't they? Are they counting this manufactured engagement in the figures they use to sell advertisements?
Because it's a scam all the way up. FB profits handsomely off these fake numbers.
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#34Christ, I hate social media.
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#35> This is how it works: someone working at facebook is taking bribes in exchange for the blue mark, a middle man will take your money (anywhere between $1000 and $15000 dollars, depending on your stupidity) and the friend at fb will submit an application for you to be verified. Hopefully it will be approved. This is interesting if true
Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
It's pretty common for bribes to be pretty cheap compared to the gain. Same in DC. The ROI for lobbying is enormous. Spend a few million to get billions in subsidies or tax cuts.
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#37Why do we call them influencers? Why not rat catchers or pied pipers or something. Because it feels like this story is going to end, the same way the one in Hamelin did.
I agree with your point but the pied piper actually initially solved the problem, was cheated and then came back to take revenge by abducting/drowning the children. So the parallel doesn't really hold.
Like that youtube influencer who felt cheated and took revenge by shooting up their campus?
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#38Sounds like it can take a lot of money and effort to become a winner at the game of Instagram. The system has rules; you have to know them and play them in order to win. Other players know the rules too, and you know that they know that, so fun second order effects exist. I can see why it could be fun, competing with other players. Trying to keep up with whatever kind of picture (and legend behind it, I expect) score…
> Instagram isn't something that "matters", though. Is it?
I think that depends on what you count as important. It's pretty safe to assume that this sort of thing happens in every social media where people can monetize. Social media requires a certain amount of social trust to thrive, so if the health of social media generally is important to to you, this matters even if you don't use Instagram specifically.
Personally, this sort of thing is one of the (but certainly not the biggest) reasons why I avoid all social media like the plague.
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#39Death of meritocracy? I think something has to exist before it can die.
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#40The shear number of typos and punctuation issues should cause anyone to question why they are taking advice from this person, exactly.