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I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.
August 17, 2013 at 9:30 pm
It’s simple, really. For most things — at least 90 percent on the site — Facebook algorithms pit you against most of the people in your so-called ‘friends’ list. It quickly hides most of your posts and only gives credit to those things which gain likes, shares and comments immediately. For the most part, the design rewards brown-nosing and bootlicking which you quickly notice with anyone who is in your list who may have some semi-celebrity or notoriety and thousands of friends. They’ll post something. Even if it’s inane, it will immediately draw applause, likes, comments with everyone talking by everyone else. In this way, it is similar to Twitter, where the metric is followers. Anything involving so-called ‘social’ on-line which revolves around ranking by metrics degenerates into winner-take-all. It’s why it’s the culture (and the software) of lickspittle.