Does Facebook want to control your life? People are being empowered by technology but there is still lots of paranoia going around that you have no free will anymore!
Please it’s just a service. You do not have to use it! You are responsible over your own life! People are handing their power away like they have no choice! It’s just laziness! You have the power to do exactly what you want and decide how you like to spend your time and attention.
It’s common sense that apps want to make you addicted! This is how all business works! Life is competition! Facebook will probably take from you more than it will give in return. That’s how many businesses works. Usually Facebook makes people a bit less social.
It’s very little about the people these days on Facebook. Now it’s just memes and annoying stuff. It’s a platform that lacks integrity and standards. And the younger generation doesn’t like it anymore so they are looking for alternatives.
Remember that your attention is gold! That is real value you can put out and you will never get it back. Value your attention highly and spend it only on quality sources where you get a high return on investment.
This will take some thinking on your side. What things are really helping you out a lot in life. Maybe you can help people getting what they want more? Instead of focusing so much on yourself. Most people usually feel the best when they don’t have time to think about themselves.
What Facebook is missing is a virtual currency, integrity, trust and reputation system. This makes so there is no incentive to create super valuable content. It’s mainly clickbait trigger stuff or shock form content. Which people on the Internet are getting more tired of.
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I mostly agree with you. This fear mongering is mainly people who are afraid of the societal changes social media and the internet as a whole are bringing.
But while it brings amazing new oportunites, it's also scary. I mean yes theoretically you don't have to use those services but since they're so easy to use bring a lot of benefits, a lot of people in your peer groups will join them. And if you want to keep up, you will have to join them as well. I never wanted to use facebook, but my friends basically pressured me into registering an account.
Lots of benefits? Let's be real most of it is just a waste of time. By the way you should get a bunny profile photo. So it looks a bit better. Friends will always push you into be mediocre. Real progress will be scary because it will challenge yourself! Keep up? Most aren't doing anything exciting with their life. I haven't had a Facebook account for 2 years. I came back. Nothing new at all!!
On the other hand if you start a side business a few years later everyone will come to you. That's how it always works out! Since most people want some excitement instead of a predictable life script! If you never wanted to use Facebook but now you do then you aren't true to yourself. Live after your own value system in life not someone else!
I actually do think it has a lot benefits. I mean, you can get into contact with people on the other side of the planet within miliseconds. Facebook is just one way of doing that, Steemit is another.
The problem is, that I'm in contact with some people through Facebook, so even, if my friends wouldn't have pressured me, the need to get in contact with some people would have done the job on it's own. I came to terms with it, though. Facebook is just a messanger for me.
Also, yes, I was planning on getting a bunny profile pic. Hope i can get to it soon. Thanks for the advice!
Very beautiful this expression, and at the same time very true!
I share your thoughts, I find facebook annoying and trivial now... As soon as I have time, I will delete my steemit group on facebook and I will move it on discord.
Smart idea.
Also found discord to be an amazing platform. You need some closed community to be able to make more interesting things happen. Steemit group would work on Facebook if it’s a closed off group with only more serious people. It raises the standard and engagement will instantly increase. Since our attention is highly valuable we should only spend it where we get great returns!
We need more better filtering methods as we move into the future because we have so much information being produced all the time. And it’s impossible to take it all in! Quality over Quantity.
I agree 100%, I in fact that I am part of the Italian group, since before I was with the automatic vote, but now I decided to switch to manual, because not all deserve support, many are just there to receive and not give. So in manual vote I can do more to support people who bring quality! Both from the group and from outside.
Yes! I mean ideally it would work to upvote all and finally they would learn that produce higher quality content actually pays off! But some never learn haha. And then they shouldn't have a reward. The ideal now is that you invest in others that also take the platform serious by investing their time and attention in producing real value.
I have detected the insane value Steemit comes with especially when it comes to the comment section. Just wow! Here you can truly get massive rewards! Even on the bigger blog posts some have just 100 comments so you would be visible pretty quick even there when delivering something of true value.
I noticed that the Italians keeps a bit higher standard which is nice to see. With very engaging comments. Very easy for me to translate them in Google Translate usually comes out close to perfect. An automatic translate button would be nice in Steemit. Focused attention on this service is highly rewarding.
It would be really interesting the automatic translation, I feel good with English but often I have to go to translate, because maybe I find technical terms that I do not know!
You understood very well regarding the comments! I'm not good at writing, and I'm not even a programmer, but I can have a good response and a high reputation, just because I believe a lot in the interaction.
I'm glad that you think so, in fact I often see what you write, but I find it harder to understand the videos, unfortunately, but I'm trying to improve understanding too :).
very true, we all have control of ourselves, facebook will never get us!
It won’t. Since it has become very boring and un-engaging and the way they filter stuff and take too much control is not really nice to it’s users. Good times that other more exciting platforms are launching. But we will always be in a constant change to better platforms every couple years or so. Eventually all we do will be shared at all places at the same time. That will truly be amazing!
It's hard for me to read this. I hate Facebook. lol I think myspace was better.
Myspace was probably worse since it didn’t survive for that long. For me I remember it too have too annoying user experience and most was just a mess. But perhaps better for music fans. Will be interesting to see what will take over Facebook. Especially when the Internet get more spread out!
The steemit empire will take over for Facebook. Myspace wasn't censored the way Facebook is so it was kind of similar to this site and twitter. You can do a most recent filter on Facebook though if you want to see everything in order.
mostly agree with you , but I do not have a Facebook account , my better half does and all he does is show me very annoying videos that are pointless and sayings
Yes in the age of too much information we need better methods of only get quality that we want. Our attention becomes extremely valuable. And 10,000 more cat videos won’t really improve our life that much by watching. But better systems are coming out all the time that will make people spend their time more effective. Since we track more stuff these days we can easily see what we need to adjust to get better results.
Yes I agree people need better ,quality platforms , whether people will use them is another thing !
People want to save time and energy. When something is so much better than the last system then they will make a switch. Since people are lazy. Only took a few years to change USA from horse travel to car travel. Since the value you got was so much higher with the engine driving system.
Excelente amigo, facebook yo lo veo como una gran perdida de tiempo para la mayoría de las personas que interactuan en ella, ya lo hacen por que todo el mundo lo hace.
Sí Facebook toma más de lo que da. La gente está empezando a detectarlo y está empezando a aburrirse de él. Ahora estamos comenzando a crear el siguiente nivel de plataformas. Será muy emocionante cuando podamos intercambiar valores más fácilmente a cualquier persona en el mundo entero. ¡Especialmente cuando la barrera del idioma también se elimina debido a mejores servicios de traducción!
At least I don't have Facebook.
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