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Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Re: Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Post by petepete »

taneq wrote: post #9

That One Weird Trick: > We eventually identified a psychological trick: > 1. Set the app’s Instagram profile to Private. > 2. Set the bio to something mysterious, e.g., “You’ve been invited to the new RHS app—stay tuned!” > 3. Follow the targeted users. > 4. Wait 24 hours to receive the inbound Follow Requests. (They were curious about our profile so they requested access) > 5. At 4:00PM when school gets out (The Gol…

> “You’ve been invited to the new RHS app—stay tuned!”

The Royal Horticultural Society are really upping their social media game.

Re: Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Post by hanspeter »

chrischen wrote: post #28

The irony is that this article is using a psychological trick to get us to read basically a non-story about how a startup tried to acquire users using not really a psychological trick. "Facebook's Teen App" really means "Third Party App Facebook Eventually Acquired"

It's Buzzfeed. Their entire existence is based on psychological tricks. Ironic indeed.

Re: Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Post by Disruptive_Dave »

phoneyphone wrote: post #40
freetime2 wrote: post #31

> TBH noticed that teens often list their high school in their Instagram bio. So, using a private Instagram account of its own, the company would visit a school’s location page and follow all accounts that included the school’s name. The idea of a company targeting and following individual high school students on instagram does feel a bit "off" to me. If facebook or any other billion dollar public company were doing…

Isn't that how Facebook got started: by creating networks based around schools? I don't see the big deal, especially if the school isn't developing new communication tools for students.

I think OP's beef is high school vs college.

Re: Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Post by c3534l »

Talk about a rag. That article is 95% priming you what to think and 5% information. The audacity to to call out other media companies for psychological trickery is astounding. The phrase the pot calling the kettle black doesn't do it justice.

Re: Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Post by LinuxBender »

Everything about FB has been psych tactics since day one. This is not unique to FB, though they do have a fascinating resemblance to all the tests I took in the military, broken down into smaller pieces which I think the military could learn from.

Re: Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Post by elkos »

bm3719 wrote: post #10

In order to reduce the likelihood my child is victimized online by questionable corporate behavior, I've redirected facebook.com to infowars.com in /etc/hosts.

I would redirect them to Diaspora, if they want to get social they better get social on an open platform :P

Re: Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

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Post by TomMarius »

Disruptive_Dave wrote: post #53
phoneyphone wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that how Facebook got started: by creating networks based around schools? I don't see the big deal, especially if the school isn't developing new communication tools for students.

I think OP's beef is high school vs college.

Are highschoolers considered not able to make their own decisions in the US? In my country, high school means you're 15 and up, and that means that you're basically an adult, with some exceptions (both de facto and de iure); then depending on how much you actually act as an adult, you're allowed to do things. E.g. it's possible to ask a judge to allow you to start a company; all contracts you enter are legally binding if it's reasonable that you understood them, etc.

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Post by pluma »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #46
United857 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've only seen such drugs ads in the US. Most other countries seem to realize that watching a 30 second ad is unlikely to make you more informed than a MD or PharmD.

It's not about being informed, it's - like all marketing - about being misinformed. And in this case, the intended effect is that the patient will pressure the doctor to prescribe them the drug they've seen on TV.

Which is why it is illegal to market prescription medicine to consumers.

Not in the US, of course.

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