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by culi
1476 days ago
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> a business desperately trying to reach customers Also read: "a business that thinks its entitled to dozens to thousands of people's attention" I think my biggest gripe is how dramatically we undervalue people's attention. Not just the businesses but as a culture as well. Studies are finally coming out shining a light on the incredible long-term harm the attention economy has on people's mental health |
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true, the vast majority of businesses probably don't deserve the attention they're trying to get via ads.
> I think my biggest gripe is how dramatically we undervalue people's attention. Not just the businesses but as a culture as well. Studies are finally coming out shining a light on the incredible long-term harm the attention economy has on people's mental health
Well we've got a market now, and one of the things they're pretty good at doing is establishing pricing, so we can measure it a bit more now.
The attention economy is pretty broad -- I do wonder how much of that is mixed up with the various platforms' attempts to get you addicted so they can also serve you ads. The old internet with banner ads on pages/blogs you went to didn't seem quite so bad for mental health in particular.
For example I don't think people suffer mental health issues from recipe sites with lots of ads and autoplay videos, despite how annoying and wasteful it is.