Why 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.
Cuz calling themselves that has made them sound valuable rather than a leach!
An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
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#42> 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.
(1000 to 15000) times n, where n may not be insignificant. And realistically the risk is low because the cost to Facebook for a review is low.
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#43When was meritocracy alive?
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#44This guy keeps going on about how 'you should get everything through hard work and effort.'
Bullshit, cheat. Cheat blatantly. If there's a broken obvious but unintended way to accomplish your goal do it.
Otherwise one of the other billions of meatsacks roaming around the planet will do it first. Then they'll be eating your lunch.
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#45As a nine-year old, I watched commercials on our black and white TV showing famous baseball players claiming they "smoked Camels." I knew then that smoking was dangerous, and that it was unlikely that the players "smoked Camels," either. So I don't get this influencer crap. I mean I really do not get it.
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#46> 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.
Repeat business.
Re: An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
#47The use of the term "merit" in this context feels fraught with issue.
One could say that, almost by definition, the individual with the most ability to game the system has the highest merit.
If a poker player is able to read the opponents' faces where no-one else can - they win based on merit. The losers may well disclaim this as being some sort of 'hack'.
We are speaking here about some pictures on a small, rectangular screen held in the hand.
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#48The shear number of typos and punctuation issues should cause anyone to question why they are taking advice from this person, exactly.
> The shear number of typos
Your being facetious, right?
Re: An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
#49The shear number of typos and punctuation issues should cause anyone to question why they are taking advice from this person, exactly.
> The shear number of typos Your being facetious, right?
>Your being facetious, right? ...
Uh, did you intend to misspell that, just to drive home the point? Or did you actually make a grammatical mistake, while calling out another poster's grammatical mistake, who was him- or her- self calling out yet a third person's grammatical mistakes?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The shear number of typos Your being facetious, right?
> Your being facetious, right? ... Uh, did you intend to misspell that, just to drive home the point? Or did you actually make a grammatical mistake, while calling out another poster's grammatical mistake, who was him- or her- self calling out yet a third person's grammatical mistakes?
... I think both made errors there unintentionally.