Elon’s multibillion dollar experiment in controlling the information ecosphere continues its bizarre trek into the mirror image alternate universe. Your xxxxs are now private to protect you, at least at face value. This has generated a lot of push back xxxx the screenshot here. And I would continue the joke of replacing the word like if I was operating in a Word document environment where I could easily find and replace “like” with “xxxx”. But enough of that.
This is the kind of thing that annoys social media researchers. Did that person who liked my comment by a gematria sports decoder just have a genuine interest in my pointing out the scam to them? Or are they a random porn bot? Or are they even a gematria fanatic themselves and it’s sarcastic? (Spoiler alert: most likely a porn bot account.)
The entire basis of social media is a search for members of your tribe. A meeting of minds with similar interests. Do you like funny cat pictures? Do you like NASCAR? Or even finding out if you like Donald Trump or Joe Biden a lot, enough to check out the other potential tribe members and see if they agree with you. The easiest way to start the interaction and gain a mutual follow me and I follow you relationship starts with getting the attention of the other party. If you fancy a potential one night stand you see at the bar you buy them a drink that his the socially acknowledged translation of, “I like you”. You don’t just sit there and keep your thoughts to yourself and seriously expect the desired result to happen by magic. (Unless you’re a gematria using clown that expects magic in two digit numbers.). After some kind of initial testing the waters of mutual compatibility, it’s up for the people to further socialize and explore and find out if things are cool or one or both are just trashy and creepy stalkers.
This comes along near the same time as the following someone being hidden. That doesn’t really work for someone with powers of observation above a banana slug and some critical thinking skills. You can find those because for now who follows you isn’t hidden. Give Elon a couple more weeks and he’ll have that fixed, “for your safety”, too.
And you can’t block ads anymore. At least not as easily. You can say you’re not interested, get a screen with the friendly suggest to pay to not get ads and have the good sense to not pay for that downgrade…er…upgrade.
Overall the net impact is likely to generate a couple million metric bitch tons of inorganic spam bot and political propaganda activity. Oh, right before the next highly contentious election in the U.S. That’s weird. I’m highly suspicious of how the feeds “for you” will be impacted. If enough spam and scam bots follow you and like your comments it may increase your undesired viewing of similar content. At best there’s no impact. Zero chance of bots liking and following you having a positive impact on your social media experience.
Let’s chalk it up to another decision based on a wealthy person can do whatever they want.
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