This is the problem with increased wealth disparity. We're all subject to the whims and fleeting thoughts of the top 20 billionaires. If Mark Z has an idea about social media, well, he controls 80% or something of social media. Even if his idea is terrible, we have no alternatives to switch to, we just have to wait out the irrationality.
I still don't understand how the general public trusts anything Mark says. Investors, I understand, they only care about money, and perhaps rightfully so. But the community, why?
Mark Zuckerberg is terrifying.
The irony is that Zuck is trying to solve problems created by his own apps.
Make a social isolation app and attention sink, sell virtual friends to fill the void.
The best advice is to delete your Meta accounts and meet people in real life.
Mark Zuckerberg -> Kingsman's Richmond Valentine
Jeff Bezos -> Austin Power's Dr. Evil
Elon Musk -> The 5th Element's Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel ZorgMark became an expert at catering to investors' ears to pump the stock: buybacks, dividends, metaverse, AI...
Then stop listening to him?
>Deny cookies
>Deny signups
>Notification blocked.
>Scroll down 2 screens consisting or 1.7 screens worth of ads.
>The ad-video I scrolled past becomes a sticky party of the header and consumes 30% of the screen real estate. Despite this a new static ad enters my screen before the last one is out of it.
Oh yeah it's totally Zucks vision that is the horror here.
Social media itself has become pretty bleak.
"Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta developed as a direct competitive response to TikTok’s rise, which stalled Meta’s growth"
"Social" media is just media now.