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Re:The case for banning ads in social media by throwaway8291 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:33PM (#21540720)
It's funny to imagine the year 2024. There are millions of small fake worlds consisting of streams of events, videos, and conversations - a beautiful algorithmic balancer will keep each of these quasi-communities humming, guiding their participants through their day with lots of - engagement.

There's a weirdo movement of people, who are not following one of the 50000 synthetic celebrities, that live and breath and adored by many.

Content generation will be semi-automatic, at least. And ads and non-ads will just merge more. The most targeted ad is one, that I do not even recognize.

I feel detached (not bad) today - I will feel alien (maybe bad) in ten years.

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Re:The case for banning ads in social media by buboard on Thursday November 14, 2019 @08:02PM (#21541314)
celebrity arises from the perceived superiority of those people to everyone else. In an increasingly connected world, there are fewer celebritis, not more, as the human brain has a limited capacity for meaningful social connections.
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