Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter (20 Viewers)

[bigdaddysaints]

Prove it.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Mark Zuckerberg and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.

www.facebook.com

 

[Madmarsha]

Marketing.

Aside from the "baby boom," which was an observable sociological event in the post war period, all these other names are nonsense from ad people and the press. "We named one generation, so we have to name them all!" They also use the Baby Boom time range to define other generational cohorts, which makes no sense. Zoomers are like 97 to 2012. A kid born in 97 has a completely different experience than one born in 2012. Its all just branding.

That said, they do make good short hand pejoratives. Some better than others. We never came up with a good short hand to bash Millenials.and nobody cared enough about Gen X to ever bother.

Of course. I should have known that. I just never really thought of it before because I don't use the terms.

I first heard not long ago the term Traditionalist Generation for the demographic from 1928 to 1945.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

one lets you embrace the block function, the other has been trying for 2 years to keep you from blocking people.

 

[Dago]

Facebook never occupied the same role Twitter did.

Facebook was originally a place to connect with friends and share pictures/posts. It then morphed into Boomers sharing conspiracy theories with other boomers. It was contained.

Because of that, it never held the status among celebrities and politicians and the journalist gadfly set that Twitter did. They wanted to blast their opinions to the world l. Twitter was for news makers and famous people holding online court. It occupied a much pronounced role in the political and social sphere than FB ever did, especially zombie FB which is a wasteland of AI nonsense and boomers posting stupid sheet.

That's the difference.

I concede the point.

But that also sidesteps the fact that the same thing was done with Twitter prior to Musk purchasing it in 2022 and there was little to no outcry from the same people blasting Twitter now

 

[Madmarsha]

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Mark Zuckerberg and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.

www.facebook.com

No, I didn't make the assertion. I'm not doing the work. You are. Or else don't make the statement.

 

[Madmarsha]

one lets you embrace the block function, the other has been trying for 2 years to keep you from blocking people.

Explain why this is important to mention.

 

[DaveXA]

Explain why this is important to mention.

It's important to me. If I can't block a person or account, I'm not using the platform. Don't care if it's FB, X, IG or whatever. I don't want to see what I don't want to seen. For me, controlling my content matters.

 

[Madmarsha]

It's important to me. If I can't block a person or account, I'm not using the platform. Don't care if it's FB, X, IG or whatever. I don't want to see what I don't want to seen. For me, controlling my content matters.

I was being admittedly a little cheeky; but, honestly I am asking, is that how you curate your feed? I thought that's what "following" was for.

Is that different from "hiding" a post and telling face book "I do not want to see more of this"? I do that on face book to hopefully curate my feed a little but I don't "block" anyone. I don't "friend" anyone I don't know and I've only "unfriended" one person I can think of over the years. My feed is generally made up of "friends" and groups I belong to.

Now, like I said, I am not on X much so I don't know how the average person uses it. I have "followed" very few and thought that following specific people, groups, etc. was how you curated your feed.

 

[Madmarsha]

i dunno...maybe you can ask a random passerby

Oh. Except, yeah, the random passerby isn't the person who made the assertion so why would I do that? You made a statement, I wanted some concrete examples and you took the easy way out and declined to offer anything to hold up that statement.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

No, I didn't make the assertion. I'm not doing the work. You are. Or else don't make the statement.

i cannot post a link to something there isn't a link to.
just like if i had zero apples in my hands and you said prove it, alli can do is show you my hands.. if thats not enough, then thats on you

 

[Madmarsha]

i cannot post a link to something there isn't a link to.
just like if i had zero apples in my hands and you said prove it, alli can do is show you my hands.. if thats not enough, then thats on you

Oh, your first sentence proved what I needed to know.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

It's important to me. If I can't block a person or account, I'm not using the platform. Don't care if it's FB, X, IG or whatever. I don't want to see what I don't want to seen. For me, controlling my content matters.

blocking is very important. if i don't like you, or i don't want anything to do with you, i'll block you. its simple. If i think you are a hateful person, i don't want to see your stuff and i sure as heck don't want you to see my stuff, blocked.
I also sell a lot of stuff on Facebook Marketplace. there are scammers all over the place. they are easy to spot when they message you, blocked.
also, in lieu of blocking, if i am friends with someone and i don't want to see their day to day drama (usually the crazy political rhetoric) i can just unfollow you and i won't see any of your stuff show up on my feed. but if i want to i can just click on your profile. if one thing Facebook has, its options to limit your feed.

Apple and Google make blocking a requirement for social media apps in their app stores. Musk has fought them tooth and nail on it.

 

[Madmarsha]

This thread is evidence that he bought a very popular social media site.

Where is the 223 Mark Zuckerberg thread that became very busy after he started hanging out with a president candidate?

 

[Madmarsha]

we aren't going to talk politics with you no matter how many times you post that..

 

[St. Widge]

It's important to me. If I can't block a person or account, I'm not using the platform. Don't care if it's FB, X, IG or whatever. I don't want to see what I don't want to seen. For me, controlling my content matters.

Yep. I mean, if I couldn't block all of antipop's posts I would no longer be on this site.