tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post445243240366121839..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Another View of the Facebook Privacy ProblemsSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-26601304469708446632018-04-12T09:11:17.662-04:002018-04-12T09:11:17.662-04:00LOL - I know, right? I buy something from Amazon ...LOL - I know, right? I buy something from Amazon and their wonderful intelligent data-driven marketing offers me the exact same thing. "No, I just bought a pad sander that should last me forever, I don't need another one". <br /><br />If it had any sense, it could at least offer sanding pads. I don't need those either, but those are expendable. Or it could say, "you bought a sander, people who buy those buy finishing supplies" and offer that. Nope. <br /><br />Another one that kills me is Pinterest trying to match content and offer me things I'll look at. Some days they think I'm a 17 year old girl, offering me pictures of Tom Hiddleston and other guys popular with teen girls; the next day I they think I'm teenage boy and I get pictures of Gal Gadot and Scarlett Johannson. Meanwhile, I'm looking for pictures of <i>engine</i> models, not movie stars. <br /><br /> SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-77969927190981472102018-04-12T08:46:28.941-04:002018-04-12T08:46:28.941-04:00When I first heard about data-driven marketing, it...When I first heard about data-driven marketing, it sounded like a good idea. I thought I was going to start getting offers for stuff I actually wanted or needed. It definitely hasn't worked that way.Ominous Cowherdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04802991559947782419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-10360055323418705562018-04-11T19:48:04.298-04:002018-04-11T19:48:04.298-04:00It sounds like you've concluded that interrupt...<i>It sounds like you've concluded that interruption-based marketing doesn't lead to sales, because you don't buy stuff in response to it, and you're typical.</i><br /><br />No, I didn't mean to leave that impression, but I can see how I did. <br /><br />While I said, "<i>interruption-based advertising ... it seems, is going to be with us for a long time.</i> as an acknowledgement that it does work, that's not much. The paragraph I had written about how marketers budget the costs of the advertising vs. the expected return, the promise of the more targeted marketing Facebook is trying to sell, and other details seemed to be too long and too far removed from my main point, so I deleted it interest of not being a TL:DR post. <br /><br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-14226979875250277812018-04-11T19:35:46.934-04:002018-04-11T19:35:46.934-04:00It sounds like you've concluded that interrupt...It sounds like you've concluded that interruption-based marketing doesn't lead to sales, because you don't buy stuff in response to it, and you're typical.<br /><br /><i>[Benevolent government will take care of you from cradle to grave]</i><br /><br />If your no-sales conclusion were true, then after the first six months of receiving no sales, advertisers would stop purchasing interruption-based marketing.<br /><br /><i>[Socialism works if only the right people are in charge]</i><br /><br />Since interruption-based marketing must be driving sales, how does that actually work? What is this informational input is doing inside human brains?<br /><br /><i>[Legislators are public servants and look out for your interests]</i><br /><br />Perhaps your analysis that you, personally, don't have your mental processes altered by the inputs received from your sense organs of hearing and sight, is incorrect. Perhaps if we insert brief pictures of soda and popcorn at a movie, you will tend to visit the concession stand more. Perhaps if an authority recognized by your family group tells you something when you are five years old, it will be stored and used mostly unexamined for the rest of your life. That's how human brain maturity gets its initial load of "facts", which are transmitted through culture rather than genes.<br /><br /><i>[Support for NPR comes from NPR stations and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, supporting creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.]</i><br /><br />Since we know subliminal advertising works, maybe non-subliminal advertising works, too. What "we" perceive as the "inner monologue" is mostly a summary of brain analysis decisions which have already occurred. Perhaps these lower brain levels are susceptible to factual distortions which are targeted at the lower brain levels' instinctual proclivities, and only the topmost rational layer is capable of discarding broken arguments which contain logical fallacies.<br /><br /><i>[For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life]</i><br /><br />Perhaps the neural networks that make up these lower brain levels will get their neural weights reinforced and maintained as long as they are exposed to compatible messages for several hours one day a week, no matter what conclusions the top-level rational layer comes to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-7070952525173341262018-04-11T03:30:09.101-04:002018-04-11T03:30:09.101-04:00Well put.
The only way that Facebook can make mon...Well put.<br /><br />The only way that Facebook can make money (for their stockholders) is to use data in a way that is profitable while the "Facebook Community" derives value from posting pictures of whatever. My sense is that if you agree to join that community, you agree to allow them to use your info, and I think that you click "agree" when you join. So what's the big dust up?LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.com