Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by ehnto on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:10AM (#24884394)

I don't want to detract from companies doing good work, but ad tech and social media taking up so much of society's resource capital is a tragedy in my eyes. So much human effort spent on technology and software designed specifically to sell you widgets.

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by treis on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:10AM (#24886010)

It's just not true. Like saying all our athletic prowess is being spent on selling shoes. That's how they make their money but it's a small amount of effort from the athlete. Most of their effort is focused playing their sport.

Similarly, only a small percentage of Google/Facebook's effort go towards ads. Most of it goes toward building products, languages, tools, and more.

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by ehnto on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:56AM (#24892945)

To clarify I didn't say all of the effort, just that it's a shame how much of the effort goes into advertising.

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