[bigheadpercoli]

In another thread here we are learning how much of this "daily active users" is actually bots run by corporations. I for myself have shown myself out of Facebook and enjoy real live interactions with human beings like it's the '90s.

[pfarnsworth]

But in the 90s we were all watching 4-6 hrs of TV a day.

[bigheadpercoli]

I surely wasn't. I fondly remember my Quake 2 LAN Parties.

[drharby]

D O U B L E KIILLLL

[AznHisoka]

It was good family TV though! Like Family Matters and Full House!

[jsemrau]

...and no need to be stressed if your comment will receive "likes"

[jedberg]

If you enjoyed Full House you'll love Fuller House on Netflix.

[mtkd]

It was a generic 4-6, not targeted, neither was it profiling you while you watched it

[jlardinois]

Television programming has been profiled and targeted for decades. It just wasn't as granular and accurate as it is on the web.

[IntronExon]

While true, that kind of understatement seems calculated to miss the point. FB is targeting the individual, tv targeted entire demographics.

It is a poor comparison.

[askafriend]

Counterpoint: I'd rather see Ads about things I'm interested in than things I'm not interested in. So by that metric, Facebook is far better than generic Ads I see on TV.

[DashRattlesnake]

> I'd rather see Ads about things I'm interested in than things I'm not interested in.

You're not going to see more ads about the things you're interested in, you're going to see ads that have a higher potential to manipulate you into commercially profitable behavior. There's a big but subtle difference between those things. You are definitely not going to see ads for your interests that bring you more joy but aren't easily monetizeable.

The coarseness of TV targeting meant people had more opportunity to assert their own priorities against the less effective manipulation.

[pfarnsworth]

Sometimes I don't know what I'm interested in, which is where TV ads are much better than targeted ads. For example, once I stopped watching TV, I found that I never knew when new movies were coming out, because I never saw ads for them.

[IntronExon]

That’s a non sequitor, not a counterpoint to the matter of how manipulative and effective from the POV of the advertiser ads are today vs on tv.