Faceb00k killing... well, everything, really
 

Splitsider: How Facebook is Killing Comedy

It opens by pointing out that Funny or Die officially quit producing short-form comedy for the Internet last month. (I did not know that) And it just gets worse from there...


...this is kind of a disaster

I a nutshell...

The disruption isn't limited to Facebook.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/n...imes&smtyp=cur

Link to a livery driver's suicide story.

Creative destruction has been hyped for most of my work life. Sometimes it just looks like destructive destruction.

Yeah, but Facebook's already on the downswing. It'll be like when Wal-Mart comes to a small town, forces all the mom-and-pops out of business, then closes its doors a few years later leaving the town economy in ruins: the need (you could say "desire," in the case of comedy, but I actually think need) remains, and people will find a way to fill it. Sure, rebuilding from the ashes sucks, but it always happens.

My personal prediction: people are finally going to start accepting that they must pay individually for content. The supported-by-advertising model is going to go away because 1.) we've all had the chance, through one venue or another, to realize how awesome life is without ads, 2.) ad blockers are only going to get better, and 3.) even the people who do see them never fucking click or pay attention to them anyway. The effectiveness of advertising campaigns has been going steadily downward, and nowadays they're almost as likely to do PR damage than generate sales.

10, even 5 years ago, I would have laughed at the idea of paying to access shows on Comedy Central's website. Now? I would do it in a heartbeat. (Still can't, mind you, because the cable companies force exclusivity deals, but that content model is on the way out, too.) Our new "big three" networks will be Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, and it will be a long time before any of those three can risk a "reduce your monthly bill in exchange for voluntarily watching ads" promotion.

Facebook really blows!

When I read a Clodfobble post, I usually think, "Will you marry me?"

Well, you'd have to convince Texas to make polygamy legal--but let's be honest, it probably wouldn't be that hard.

Bad, badder, baddest, & company.

It is only illegal if you get courts involved

Damn straight, keep a low profile and live happily ever after. Heh, good luck with that.

It would most certainly be hard.

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

Cambridge Analytica

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...tory-quicktake

During the summer of 2014, the U.K. affiliate of U.S. political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica hired a Soviet-born American researcher, Aleksandr Kogan, to gather basic profile information of Facefook users along with what they chose to “Like.” About 270,000 Facebork users, most or all of whom were paid a small amount, downloaded Kogan’s app, thisisyourdigitallife, which took the form of a personality survey. Kogan collected data not just on those users but on their Faceduck friends as well, if their privacy settings allowed it -- a universe of people that reached 50 million. The app, in its terms of service, disclosed that it would collect data on users and their friends.

And now everyone is fleeing.

I'm curious . . . how many of you are facebook people?

If you are, are you worried? Ready to quit? About to run screaming into the dark abyss?

I have a facebook account, but only started it to see pics that my sis-in-law posted. My account is completely private, contains zero info about me (not even my name), and I don't post anything there. I feel like I'm personally safe from the Analytica insanity (but I'm not certain).

What I can say is, the unpeeling of this reeking onion is deeply disturbing and, at least in my mind, providing ever-mounting evidence that Trump is indeed a Fake President, on even more levels than I previously thought.

Putin. Wikileaks. Porn stars. Secret meetings with Russians. Cambridge Analytica. Pussy grabbing. Praising dictators. Biological nerve poisons. Money laundering. Lies by the hour. The pile of shit tied to Trump just gets bigger and bigger.

We are so fucked.

I've been guilty of over-sharing on Fook. Any way to keep in touch that excludes face to face is a win. I didn't really care about data going for targeted products cuz that has actually been useful, but I didn't realize an ever more creepy political system wanted me as a product, stupid in retrospect.

I use it. I have a geographically wide spread of friends and family I like to keep in touch with. Sometimes I like and share stuff that amuses me. I rarely do the quiz things, and never if they want me to log in with my fook details.
I firmly believe that once you start interacting with anything online there are no secrets if someone wants to find something out. And there is no such thing as a free lunch, so on fook you are the dinner for somebody. So no, I'm not more bothered than I was before.

It's not so much what you share about your own life, but more what you look at, like, and comment on. And how much time you spend looking at different stuff.

This is what happens when technology is adopted without considering repercussions.

Since forever.

What makes Facebook problematic: it made possible to identify and target many who automatically believe a first thing they are told. Then they were targetted with the necessary myths and lies. Then others automatically believed it was true because hearsay from others was somehow proof. The real problem are so many who have no idea how to separate outright lies and myths from what is hard honest facts.

Actual problem is not Facebook. That was only a tool used to manipulate so many who are the problem.

How many so foolishly believed Saddam had WMDs only because hearsay said so? How many foolishly believed Saddam was a threat to the US mainland when he was not even a threat to countries adjacent to Iraq? Those were targets of this Facebook data collection malfeasance.

Good old Facebook.

Paris, huh? You don't say.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3282e52fa0.jpg

I don't understand--is this a case of FOMA, or was the person's account hacked for apartment-hunting spam?

You know, just dropping into casual conversation that they are going to Paris.

That, and the assumption that other people go enough to have an opinion on the apartment rentals there.

Style points there.