Social Media is a marketplace that trades in humans.
Today there are hundreds of social media networks, some of the most popular being Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram,Tictok and Youtube, and they all are competing against each other to see which is the most popular and which will become the next “trend”.
Social networks are platforms where people share content such as entertainment videos, pictures, political or religious information or news and sometimes educational content. Like mentioned earlier there are so many different platforms and all of them have different trends such as different challenges, tricks, dances, pranks and so on depending on what features the network contains.
These networks were made on the basis of what people are interested in, what is the latest craze.These social networks are in a steady war which is hidden for a normal user. The war is all about how many people prefer using whatever network over any other network. But in the bigger picture the only thing they are interested in is the money and how much money.
On the topic of money another question arises that where are they getting all of these trillions of dollars from anyways. The users aren’t paying. Well, when we use these social media networks, they have our attention and here they can pop up anything they want us to see, so basically they are selling our attention. They are selling our attention to the adverts. They pay to the big companies like facebook, instagram tictok and endless more for our attention. And when you think about it sometimes different platforms provide an option to go “premium”. In which in most cases they ask you for a monthly pay and one of the features of this premium mode is that you don’t get advertisements which is why they ask you to pay. To make up for the money they lose by not showing you ads.
“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.”
The most interesting part hasn’t even happened yet. If you have an account in any big social media network you know that your homepage is going to be filled with recommendations that they know you like; they know what ads or video get you hooked up and they know for how long you look at you screen day and how long you look at each post and which ones you enjoy best and which person or thing are you interested in which is kind of creepy that they are spying on you.
“Everyone in your newsfeed sounds just like you”
These can make you like things you generally hated before or hate things that you loved before. They can predict and control your actions and most people don’t see this because this is done indirectly. After a few hours of scrolling through whatever network you prefer it is very easy to convince or persuade things to you and this again is sometimes done indirectly. Your opinions are valuable to you and you are enthusiastic about them too and anything or anyone that says otherwise is wrong. People aren’t ready to reconcile. They have been brainwashed.
“We have a team of engineers whose job is just to monitor your daily activity.”
“We want to psychologically figure out how to manipulate you as fast as possible.”
“Social media has its own goals. We want them to keep using it with their fingers so that you are being programmed at a deeper level.”
“Facebook discovered that they were able to defect real world behaviors and emotions without triggering the users awareness.”
“Social media is a drug”
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