[andrenotgiant]

Yeah 100%. This article reads like the reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep/ version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

> Traditional advertising could never get your attention.

Are you serious?

> Before social media advertising would have to hitch a ride with some content produced for something else.

This is exactly what social media advertising does.

>Billboards, newspapers, television shows, and magazines all tried to provide a use value to their customers and audiences

What does that even mean?

Advertising was effectively getting attention and subverting behavior long before the internet. Watch the Century of the Self for some prime examples.