Quote from: Care factor on Today at 00:00:55It's almost impossible to navigate through social circles or settings without being on it in this day age. Even if you try to actively avoid it, the sad reality is you've a friend, loved one, associate/colleagues that do and are part of some kind of group chat. If you're not part of this group chat, people look at you like you're the odd one out.
These lawsuits can keep coming, doubt it's going to move a needle on their 3+ billion user base. It's just too embedded / entrenched within the core fabric of society now.
If you're the odd one out because your social group uses Meta products and you don't, you probably need to reevaluate whether you're hangin' with the right crowd or not.
There's nothing on social media worth my attention. It's mostly just an addiction anyway. The point of social media, much like television, is to put ads in your face. They say the best form of advertisement is word of mouth. This is because people trust those in their social group more than they do paid actors and funny pizza puns.
Social media was designed around this concept. Sure you have the addition of actual ads on the page, I think; I haven't been on social media in a very long time, but a lot of what people share is where they're dining out, what shoes they just bought, what tourist trap they visited on vacation.
Plus, when people follow a movie star, who's getting paid to wear certain clothes and use certain headphones, they tend to feel like they're friends with this person. They feel as though the paid product spokesperson is a member of their social group thereby elevating their paid product advice to word of mouth advertisement.
The addiction comes from the "likes." Likes and shares are a form of validation for people who need reassurance that their existence is worthwhile. Facebook is really more of an opium den where people spend their time getting high on likes and shares.
In reality the interactions on social media are shallow, one dimentional at their best. People don't sign into Facebook to have deep meaningful existential discussions. They sign in to share pictures of their toddler who they're really just exploiting for what, quite frankly, amounts to a drug addiction.
These really aren't people with which you should be spending a whole lot of time. I very highly recommend you break the addiction and remove negative influences from your life to the best of your ability.
Outside of that, I agree; this lawsuit will accomplish nothing. The best you'll see of this is a class action lawsuit that Meta will drag out for seven years only to payout twenty bucks to each recipient.
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