Not only do platforms arbitrarily redistribute existing digital social capital
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 6:12 am
They also prevent new social agents from accumulating it. Every day, company marketers, newly minted entrepreneurs, self-employed people, and creative people are faced with the fact that platforms artificially restrain the display of their content. This is done for one purpose only - to force people to pay so that their product can be seen by at least someone.
Seasoned internet warriors, spitting on the dirty spring asphalt, can hiss list of cyprus whatsapp phone numbers : "What do you want? Access to the platforms is free, they have the right. The world is unfair, whoever has the gun is right. No money - tie a broom to your back..." However, we understand that platforms are not free. They either collect our personal and behavioral data, selling it to others, or force-feed us with ads when viewing content (sometimes they do both at once).
This is not “free”. Moreover, the user is deprived of the choice – to give up their data or not, to see ads or not. Moreover, he cannot even properly choose what content he consumes on social networks. The platforms predictably abandoned chronological feeds. Entrepreneurs (self-employed, or "creators") and their potential audience therefore fall into information bubbles formed for them by recommendation algorithms. The audience doesn't always like it.
Seasoned internet warriors, spitting on the dirty spring asphalt, can hiss list of cyprus whatsapp phone numbers : "What do you want? Access to the platforms is free, they have the right. The world is unfair, whoever has the gun is right. No money - tie a broom to your back..." However, we understand that platforms are not free. They either collect our personal and behavioral data, selling it to others, or force-feed us with ads when viewing content (sometimes they do both at once).
This is not “free”. Moreover, the user is deprived of the choice – to give up their data or not, to see ads or not. Moreover, he cannot even properly choose what content he consumes on social networks. The platforms predictably abandoned chronological feeds. Entrepreneurs (self-employed, or "creators") and their potential audience therefore fall into information bubbles formed for them by recommendation algorithms. The audience doesn't always like it.