Re:Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beau...
by mc32 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:26AM
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I’m not sure what you’re on about. What I’m saying is that people seek approval and or attaboys and attagirls. They want the likes and they want the comments, the recognition. This leads to this behavior.
If they were posting things to a virtual void the great majority would quickly decelerate the rate of this behavior.
Re:Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beau...
by sak5sk on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:58AM
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The same with Twitter. The amount of garbage that platforms spews daily would go down tremendously if likes and retweets weren't a thing. I can't spend more than a few minutes reading the most cringeworthy crap without questioning why I'm even looking at it.
Re:Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beau...
by mc32 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:07AM
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True, but I think Twitter is a bit different in some aspect. It’s still about recognition, but it’s more akin to oneupmanship with yo momma jokes (and similar things) where people attempt to impress via quips and such and getting the attagirls and attaboys vis this idea signaling.
It isn’t so bad when it’s a group of five or ten being smart or crass and obnoxious within that limited group. The amplification via Twitter makes that unbearable. I agree the metrics do ultimately drive this behavior too.
Do you think anyone is out there "seeking likes" for the sake of likes? If we hide likes and views, who would we be hiding them from? Third parties, or the person making the content? If the former, then the person making the content is still getting a dopamine rush. If the latter, then the audience will have a button that they're not sure if it does anything when they click it. If both, then someone will still find a way to track these things due to the outcome of the algorithm used to sort content to trending or not.
Oh, wait wait wait, no, let me guess, you want the idea of popular content to be thrown away completely and have the pseudo-communist overlords of silicon valley to select what is or is not trending manually?
Like, what possible solution do you think there is to this other than just leaving the system be as it is and being content with the fact that humans are humans?