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

Post by saudioger » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 1:35 AM UTC

amf12 wrote: post #43

saudioger wrote: post #29

The trick itself isn't very shitty, but some of the mentality is: "Our team obsessed with finding ways to get individual high schools to adopt a product simultaneously." Seriously? getting a bunch of kids to adopt a product is what you want to obsess about? How about helping companies make a product that's not shit so you don't have to trick kids into using it.

To be fair, all the toys/consoles have been similarly marketed to a bunch of kids (for example during after school hours) for a long time without anyone getting pissed off. It's just marketing. This doesn't really seem like a "psychological" trick to me.

Post by saudioger » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 9:03 PM UTC

amf12 wrote: post #82

saudioger wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Toys are marketed so you buy something that's (hopefully) fun. Apps are marketed and given away for free to collect data on how to influence children. In many cases they're designed to be habit forming or addicting.

But we are talking about the marketing aspect of it here and not the utility of the product.