Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
by brbrodude on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:21AM
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That's not an ad, that's genuine interaction. The poster is not an actor(or someone trying to act a role), not an algorythm, not a corporation, not a marketer or salesperson. We must learn to discern between stuff if we want to consider ourselves "real-worlders" or whatever. If you get the concepts mixed up in your mind then your discernment gets distorted and you start conflating what's authentic and what's artificial. That's why it shits in your head.
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Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
by brainfire on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:13PM
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Seemingly-genuine comments like that could be a plausible future step for escalation of advertising.
I'd guess there are people who would "rent" access to their active social media accounts to a company operating a bot capable of writing subtle "recommendation"-style comments. Sort of a merger of blog-comment-spam-bots and paid "influencer" posts.
Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
by brbrodude on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:47PM
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It's certainly possible, although repulsive.
Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
by ignasl on Monday December 05, 2016 @06:50AM
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What an interesting idea.
Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
by overdrivetg on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:47PM
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> That's not an ad, that's genuine interaction.
Well... Hopefully :-/
Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
by Angostura on Sunday December 04, 2016 @06:45PM
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I structured my comment to be as close to an obvious paid-for advertising comment as possible.
I'm gratified that you thought it was a bona fide comment. I've never actually watched Bill Hicks.
Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
by brbrodude on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @09:14AM
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heh, funny. But that's the point, deceiving is REALLY easy. But without trust and good faith, things start to get weird exponentially, it adds up. And so, as I saw in another article, truth becomes the roadkill.