#nagging — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nagging, aggregated by home.social.
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Ugh! Even after the 18.7.7 update, #Apple *still* nags you to “upgrade” to #iOS v26 though. 😒
Tim Apple, I *don’t* want that silly #LiquidGlass abomination. ✋🏽🙅🏽♂️
#Security #UX #ComputerSecurity #iPhone #iPad #DarkSword #Design #Nags #Nagging
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“Listen to me, you feckless, thumb-sucking wetbag: You will Update. Your System Software. Right. The Frick. NOW. It’s not even a demand. It’s reality.”
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Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use #AI while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:
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Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use #AI while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:
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Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use #AI while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:
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Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use #AI while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:
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Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use #AI while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:
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Nur, dass ich das richtig verstehe:
Big Tech-Behemoth #Microsoft nutzt seit Jahren jeden Trick, #DarkPattern s und #toxisches #Nagging, um Benutzer auf #Windows 11 upgraden zu lassen... und jetzt, wo der Support aufläuft, geht der Upgrade-Mechanismus kaputt?!
Kannst Du Dir nicht ausdenken.
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Throughout the day, déjà-vu alternated with a #nagging sensation that I was forgetting something. The juice seller by the colonnade, the way she nodded hello--déjà-vu. The students in the corridor of the west wing: "Professor! Is the exam still this Tuesday?" And when I said yes, one student dropping his papers--déjà-vu.
What was it that I wasn't remembering?
In my study, the Owl Woman was waiting. "You've completed one loop. Do you remember the End Simulation code?"
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#TimeTravelingGhost Part 23: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part I
#Wss366 #MastoPrompt #TimeTravelAuthors 7/25. Jewelry and fashion in your story.
“I didn’t see any rabbits when I was alive,” Emily began. “There was no warning of a problem, just suddenly there were flames. My last wish before I blacked out was to go back and warn myself. When I came to, I was no longer on the Hindenburg; instead, I was in Frankfurt on the day I’d left.”
The first thing I tried was speaking to her in her hotel room. I remember standing in front of the door, frustrated that I didn’t have the key. I gave the door an angry shove, and to my surprise, my hand went through it. That’s when it really hit me: “I’m a ghost.”
“It’s tricky going through things, but I managed to enter the room.
“There I was, putting on a long blue…” Emily began, and I waved my hands for her to get on with it. Clothing wasn’t what I was interested in. I wanted to know about Nazi rabbits and mind-reading studies.
“Anyway, I tried talking to her, but she couldn’t hear me. I was #nagging and yelling at her by the time we reached the lobby, and that’s when I saw them. There were two rabbits dressed—the way you saw—in those awful black SS uniforms, talking to the ‘kind’ officer who had ‘volunteered’ to drive me to the aerodrome.”
“I didn’t know if they could detect me, so I made myself inconspicuous. I wasn’t getting through to her anyway.”
“All I could do was drift along above the car, following them to the Hindenburg. It felt like floating through a movie scene, #severed from reality.”
“Wow, Emily is one adaptive person.” I hadn’t tried any of those things: passing through walls, floating, flying, and God knows what else.
Emily continued her story. “When we got to the aerodrome, there were two more rabbits. I don’t know if they were the same ones. They had the same black uniforms and death-head insignia. They watched me—her—board the Hindenburg. My driver nodded to a rabbit, a major, and they also boarded. I don’t know how many are on the ship, but at least three.”
“That’s the story. You saw me trying to talk to… myself. Oh, and I tried possessing myself with no luck.”
I thought I understood, despite the tangle of “I”s and “me”s. But for the future, I said, “It will be easier for both of us if you refer to your living self as ‘her’ or ‘Ms. Pang.’ And you”—I pointed at her—“as ‘I’ or ‘Emily.’ Is it all right if I call you Emily?”
She nodded.
#TootFic #Serial #PulpFiction #TimeTravel #NMPrompts #NMTTA #NMV366 #NMMP
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#TimeTravelingGhost Part 23: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part I
#Wss366 #MastoPrompt #TimeTravelAuthors 7/25. Jewelry and fashion in your story.
“I didn’t see any rabbits when I was alive,” Emily began. “There was no warning of a problem, just suddenly there were flames. My last wish before I blacked out was to go back and warn myself. When I came to, I was no longer on the Hindenburg; instead, I was in Frankfurt on the day I’d left.”
The first thing I tried was speaking to her in her hotel room. I remember standing in front of the door, frustrated that I didn’t have the key. I gave the door an angry shove, and to my surprise, my hand went through it. That’s when it really hit me: “I’m a ghost.”
“It’s tricky going through things, but I managed to enter the room.
“There I was, putting on a long blue…” Emily began, and I waved my hands for her to get on with it. Clothing wasn’t what I was interested in. I wanted to know about Nazi rabbits and mind-reading studies.
“Anyway, I tried talking to her, but she couldn’t hear me. I was #nagging and yelling at her by the time we reached the lobby, and that’s when I saw them. There were two rabbits dressed—the way you saw—in those awful black SS uniforms, talking to the ‘kind’ officer who had ‘volunteered’ to drive me to the aerodrome.”
“I didn’t know if they could detect me, so I made myself inconspicuous. I wasn’t getting through to her anyway.”
“All I could do was drift along above the car, following them to the Hindenburg. It felt like floating through a movie scene, #severed from reality.”
“Wow, Emily is one adaptive person.” I hadn’t tried any of those things: passing through walls, floating, flying, and God knows what else.
Emily continued her story. “When we got to the aerodrome, there were two more rabbits. I don’t know if they were the same ones. They had the same black uniforms and death-head insignia. They watched me—her—board the Hindenburg. My driver nodded to a rabbit, a major, and they also boarded. I don’t know how many are on the ship, but at least three.”
“That’s the story. You saw me trying to talk to… myself. Oh, and I tried possessing myself with no luck.”
I thought I understood, despite the tangle of “I”s and “me”s. But for the future, I said, “It will be easier for both of us if you refer to your living self as ‘her’ or ‘Ms. Pang.’ And you”—I pointed at her—“as ‘I’ or ‘Emily.’ Is it all right if I call you Emily?”
She nodded.
#TootFic #Serial #PulpFiction #TimeTravel #NMPrompts #NMTTA #NMV366 #NMMP
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#TimeTravelingGhost Part 23: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part I
#Wss366 #MastoPrompt #TimeTravelAuthors 7/25. Jewelry and fashion in your story.
“I didn’t see any rabbits when I was alive,” Emily began. “There was no warning of a problem, just suddenly there were flames. My last wish before I blacked out was to go back and warn myself. When I came to, I was no longer on the Hindenburg; instead, I was in Frankfurt on the day I’d left.”
The first thing I tried was speaking to her in her hotel room. I remember standing in front of the door, frustrated that I didn’t have the key. I gave the door an angry shove, and to my surprise, my hand went through it. That’s when it really hit me: “I’m a ghost.”
“It’s tricky going through things, but I managed to enter the room.
“There I was, putting on a long blue…” Emily began, and I waved my hands for her to get on with it. Clothing wasn’t what I was interested in. I wanted to know about Nazi rabbits and mind-reading studies.
“Anyway, I tried talking to her, but she couldn’t hear me. I was #nagging and yelling at her by the time we reached the lobby, and that’s when I saw them. There were two rabbits dressed—the way you saw—in those awful black SS uniforms, talking to the ‘kind’ officer who had ‘volunteered’ to drive me to the aerodrome.”
“I didn’t know if they could detect me, so I made myself inconspicuous. I wasn’t getting through to her anyway.”
“All I could do was drift along above the car, following them to the Hindenburg. It felt like floating through a movie scene, #severed from reality.”
“Wow, Emily is one adaptive person.” I hadn’t tried any of those things: passing through walls, floating, flying, and God knows what else.
Emily continued her story. “When we got to the aerodrome, there were two more rabbits. I don’t know if they were the same ones. They had the same black uniforms and death-head insignia. They watched me—her—board the Hindenburg. My driver nodded to a rabbit, a major, and they also boarded. I don’t know how many are on the ship, but at least three.”
“That’s the story. You saw me trying to talk to… myself. Oh, and I tried possessing myself with no luck.”
I thought I understood, despite the tangle of “I”s and “me”s. But for the future, I said, “It will be easier for both of us if you refer to your living self as ‘her’ or ‘Ms. Pang.’ And you”—I pointed at her—“as ‘I’ or ‘Emily.’ Is it all right if I call you Emily?”
She nodded.
#TootFic #Serial #PulpFiction #TimeTravel #NMPrompts #NMTTA #NMV366 #NMMP
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#TimeTravelingGhost Part 23: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part I
#Wss366 #MastoPrompt #TimeTravelAuthors 7/25. Jewelry and fashion in your story.
“I didn’t see any rabbits when I was alive,” Emily began. “There was no warning of a problem, just suddenly there were flames. My last wish before I blacked out was to go back and warn myself. When I came to, I was no longer on the Hindenburg; instead, I was in Frankfurt on the day I’d left.”
The first thing I tried was speaking to her in her hotel room. I remember standing in front of the door, frustrated that I didn’t have the key. I gave the door an angry shove, and to my surprise, my hand went through it. That’s when it really hit me: “I’m a ghost.”
“It’s tricky going through things, but I managed to enter the room.
“There I was, putting on a long blue…” Emily began, and I waved my hands for her to get on with it. Clothing wasn’t what I was interested in. I wanted to know about Nazi rabbits and mind-reading studies.
“Anyway, I tried talking to her, but she couldn’t hear me. I was #nagging and yelling at her by the time we reached the lobby, and that’s when I saw them. There were two rabbits dressed—the way you saw—in those awful black SS uniforms, talking to the ‘kind’ officer who had ‘volunteered’ to drive me to the aerodrome.”
“I didn’t know if they could detect me, so I made myself inconspicuous. I wasn’t getting through to her anyway.”
“All I could do was drift along above the car, following them to the Hindenburg. It felt like floating through a movie scene, #severed from reality.”
“Wow, Emily is one adaptive person.” I hadn’t tried any of those things: passing through walls, floating, flying, and God knows what else.
Emily continued her story. “When we got to the aerodrome, there were two more rabbits. I don’t know if they were the same ones. They had the same black uniforms and death-head insignia. They watched me—her—board the Hindenburg. My driver nodded to a rabbit, a major, and they also boarded. I don’t know how many are on the ship, but at least three.”
“That’s the story. You saw me trying to talk to… myself. Oh, and I tried possessing myself with no luck.”
I thought I understood, despite the tangle of “I”s and “me”s. But for the future, I said, “It will be easier for both of us if you refer to your living self as ‘her’ or ‘Ms. Pang.’ And you”—I pointed at her—“as ‘I’ or ‘Emily.’ Is it all right if I call you Emily?”
She nodded.
#TootFic #Serial #PulpFiction #TimeTravel #NMPrompts #NMTTA #NMV366 #NMMP
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#TimeTravelingGhost Part 23: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part I
#Wss366 #MastoPrompt #TimeTravelAuthors 7/25. Jewelry and fashion in your story.
“I didn’t see any rabbits when I was alive,” Emily began. “There was no warning of a problem, just suddenly there were flames. My last wish before I blacked out was to go back and warn myself. When I came to, I was no longer on the Hindenburg; instead, I was in Frankfurt on the day I’d left.”
The first thing I tried was speaking to her in her hotel room. I remember standing in front of the door, frustrated that I didn’t have the key. I gave the door an angry shove, and to my surprise, my hand went through it. That’s when it really hit me: “I’m a ghost.”
“It’s tricky going through things, but I managed to enter the room.
“There I was, putting on a long blue…” Emily began, and I waved my hands for her to get on with it. Clothing wasn’t what I was interested in. I wanted to know about Nazi rabbits and mind-reading studies.
“Anyway, I tried talking to her, but she couldn’t hear me. I was #nagging and yelling at her by the time we reached the lobby, and that’s when I saw them. There were two rabbits dressed—the way you saw—in those awful black SS uniforms, talking to the ‘kind’ officer who had ‘volunteered’ to drive me to the aerodrome.”
“I didn’t know if they could detect me, so I made myself inconspicuous. I wasn’t getting through to her anyway.”
“All I could do was drift along above the car, following them to the Hindenburg. It felt like floating through a movie scene, #severed from reality.”
“Wow, Emily is one adaptive person.” I hadn’t tried any of those things: passing through walls, floating, flying, and God knows what else.
Emily continued her story. “When we got to the aerodrome, there were two more rabbits. I don’t know if they were the same ones. They had the same black uniforms and death-head insignia. They watched me—her—board the Hindenburg. My driver nodded to a rabbit, a major, and they also boarded. I don’t know how many are on the ship, but at least three.”
“That’s the story. You saw me trying to talk to… myself. Oh, and I tried possessing myself with no luck.”
I thought I understood, despite the tangle of “I”s and “me”s. But for the future, I said, “It will be easier for both of us if you refer to your living self as ‘her’ or ‘Ms. Pang.’ And you”—I pointed at her—“as ‘I’ or ‘Emily.’ Is it all right if I call you Emily?”
She nodded.
#TootFic #Serial #PulpFiction #TimeTravel #NMPrompts #NMTTA #NMV366 #NMMP
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Liebe @tagesschau, ich möchte keine Push-Nachrichten erhalten, weder jetzt, noch irgendwann später.
Warum nutzt die Tagesschau-App dieses #DarkPattern (#Nagging)? Warum gibt es keine Option, welche diese Frage dauerhaft mit Nein beantwortet?
https://dapde.de/de/dark-patterns/arten-und-beispiele/druck2/
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The Scold’s Bridle
The Scold’s Bridle, sometimes called the Gossip’s Bridle, or the Brank’s Bridle, was a form of punishment and public humiliation in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It was a device placed over the face and into the mouths of women whose words offended men.
16th-century Scottish branks, WikipediaThey were brutal instruments. Sometimes they were an iron framework and sometimes they were a mask. They had a bridle-bit that was placed into the mouth, often with a spike that went through the tongue. Their purpose was to silence the women, and they worked.
There have been times when I have heard someone nagging or berating someone else and thought, “Damn. I wish they would just shut up!” And I have sometimes wondered what it must be like to live with constant haranguing, but I have never once considered that permanently silencing the scold might be a solution.
The “Bishop’s branks,” WikipediaToday we don’t have Scold’s Bridles. Instead, we have executive orders that silence individuals, male and female, whose words offend someone in high office. The person in power gets to decide who can speak.
It doesn’t matter if most of what they say is benign or true or simply practical advice. If any spoken or written words criticize or question the leader’s words or actions, the critic must be silenced not because the words are scolding or nagging but because the leader feels berated and his ego cannot withstand that. To save face, he bullies.
Hence we see efforts to silence particular news organizations and even a children’s television show. They become silenced not with mechanical bridles but with the firing of employees, the dismantling of agencies that run them, and the removal of funding. But make no mistake, these are Scold’s Bridles.
Elisabeth Webb, Handmaid’s Tale Mask, via Toofab.comWhen enough people are silenced through executive orders, others are silenced through fear so that ultimately the only voices we hear or read are those in support of the leader. In effect, the scolds are being permanently silenced, one by one. Their tongues have been spiked.
Even so, the rest of us see this and we remember it. We record it. We talk about it among ourselves. The silencing of voices will go down in history as shameful and regrettable, and over time the memories of those who witnessed it will matter more and will endure. We have seen how it played out in the past and in other lands, so we know how this story ends. Silencing is temporary and, ultimately, counter-productive.
#criticizing #ExecutiveOrders #fear #leaders #leadership #mask #nagging #ScoldSBridle #scolding #silencing #Society
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🤖💼 Hooray for the tech wizards who decided that computers should nag us like over-caffeinated used car salesmen! 🎉 Because what we really needed was our task-managing #robots to ask, "Are you sure you don't want the extended warranty?" every five seconds. 🙄
https://rakhim.exotext.com/they-made-computers-behave-like-annoying-salesmen #techhumor #automation #nagging #taskmanagement #HackerNews #ngated -
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The majority of subscription apps and websites employ dark patterns
https://stackdiary.com/the-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites-employ-dark-patterns/
#DarkPatterns #Subscription #Deceptive #Manipulation #FTC #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Marketing #Apps #Websites #OnlineServices #AutoRenewal #Sneaking #Obstruction #Nagging #ForcedAction #SocialProof #UI #UX #UserExperience #DigitalTricks #ConsumerProtection #Transparency #DigitalMarketing #UserManipulation #TechEthics #DesignEthics #DarkDesign #SubscriptionServices #ConsumerAwareness #DigitalPrivacy
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The majority of subscription apps and websites employ dark patterns
https://stackdiary.com/the-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites-employ-dark-patterns/
#DarkPatterns #Subscription #Deceptive #Manipulation #FTC #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Marketing #Apps #Websites #OnlineServices #AutoRenewal #Sneaking #Obstruction #Nagging #ForcedAction #SocialProof #UI #UX #UserExperience #DigitalTricks #ConsumerProtection #Transparency #DigitalMarketing #UserManipulation #TechEthics #DesignEthics #DarkDesign #SubscriptionServices #ConsumerAwareness #DigitalPrivacy
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The majority of subscription apps and websites employ dark patterns
https://stackdiary.com/the-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites-employ-dark-patterns/
#DarkPatterns #Subscription #Deceptive #Manipulation #FTC #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Marketing #Apps #Websites #OnlineServices #AutoRenewal #Sneaking #Obstruction #Nagging #ForcedAction #SocialProof #UI #UX #UserExperience #DigitalTricks #ConsumerProtection #Transparency #DigitalMarketing #UserManipulation #TechEthics #DesignEthics #DarkDesign #SubscriptionServices #ConsumerAwareness #DigitalPrivacy
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The majority of subscription apps and websites employ dark patterns
https://stackdiary.com/the-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites-employ-dark-patterns/
#DarkPatterns #Subscription #Deceptive #Manipulation #FTC #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Marketing #Apps #Websites #OnlineServices #AutoRenewal #Sneaking #Obstruction #Nagging #ForcedAction #SocialProof #UI #UX #UserExperience #DigitalTricks #ConsumerProtection #Transparency #DigitalMarketing #UserManipulation #TechEthics #DesignEthics #DarkDesign #SubscriptionServices #ConsumerAwareness #DigitalPrivacy
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The majority of subscription apps and websites employ dark patterns
https://stackdiary.com/the-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites-employ-dark-patterns/
#DarkPatterns #Subscription #Deceptive #Manipulation #FTC #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Marketing #Apps #Websites #OnlineServices #AutoRenewal #Sneaking #Obstruction #Nagging #ForcedAction #SocialProof #UI #UX #UserExperience #DigitalTricks #ConsumerProtection #Transparency #DigitalMarketing #UserManipulation #TechEthics #DesignEthics #DarkDesign #SubscriptionServices #ConsumerAwareness #DigitalPrivacy
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Reading Time: 2 minutes
In three days I will have closed the activity on an Apple Watch 1750 times. I have a love hate relationship with the device. That Love/hate relationship started when I broke the screen on my Series three watch when climbing but continued on when I got into the habit of allowing the move goal to be raised every single week. In the end I was walking four hours per day, every day, during lockdown, to fill the rings. I eventually got fatigued.
## Plenty of Miscounts
Although I say that I have almost reached the daily activity goal 1750 times this is rubbish. I have reached it far more than this. There are plenty of cases where I was wearing an apple watch, a garmin or a suunto and Apple either counted all three and then counted none, or it didn’t count anything at all.
## Addiction, Rather than Health
It might sound impressive to wear the Apple Watch and fill those rings 1750 times but to me it is a sign of Apple’s desire to turn me into a quantified self addict. Does reaching a calorie goal count for anything?
According to Suunto, Garmin, Xiaomi and even Apple daily walks don’t count towards Vo2 max, so the Apple Watch is pushing me to reach 10,000 steps per day, and pushing me to burn a certain number of calories per day, but in reality a three or four kilometre run would count for more.
## Higher Returns
My fitness shoots up when I walk and cycle, but it stagnates, or even declines as I walk daily.
I want my daily walks, runs and my regular bike rides, via ferrata and more to be enjoyed in the moment, without it being about a badge. Garmin and Apple make it about badges. Sports Tracker, Suunto and others make it about the experiences. I prefer the yearly distance by Strava as a measure of progress.
## No Smashed Screen During a Via Ferrata
When I did the via ferrata on Sunday last week I was curious to see whether I would break the screen or not. A few years ago I broke the screen on a series four when indoor climbing. I don’t know whether it’s the rope, or hitting a plank of wood that fractured the screen. Since then my passion for Apple Watches has been muted.
## Good Data
Although I love to hate the Apple Watch it does give more data than the Suunto Peak 5 and the Garmin Instinct Solar. It gives me power as watts for running, HRV (heart Recovery Value) and Vo2 max for running and cycling. Without this data I believe I would stop wearing the Apple Watch.
## And Finally
Reaching the daily calorie goal for 1750 days means that I have reached that goal for 4.8 years. I have had an Apple watch since around the 11th of July 2018. In three days I could write about what I have learned after reaching the daily activity goal for 1750 days. I think it has no value. It’s a way for them to ensure loyalty to what I see as a mediocre device.
#activityRings #addiction #appleWatch #nagging #quantifiedSelf
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On Sundays I use a laptop with Windows. It’s minimally configured, setup by someone else. Every bootup and login nags for me to complete the setup of several services. There are no options to stop asking, only options to remind later.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes
Today I saw the headline “Content creator camps help kids become online influencers” and to me, this represents a nightmare, rather than a dream. It represents a nightmare rather than a dream because the notion of creating content to sell, to influence, and to market, rather than to amuse, inform, educate and entertain seems wrong.
YouTube and Instagram are awful. They’re awful because people are creating content to get views, likes and subscribers, rather than to produce individual videos of special interest. Social media should first and foremost be about connecting people, having conversations and establishing strong bonds, that, with time, become friendships in the physical world, rather than online. People should create content that is fun and entertaining.
On YouTube, Instagram and other platforms people create a video where they keep saying “Don’t forget to like and subscribe, more than once. In some videos they tell us to do this at the start of a video, and again half way through, before telling us to do it at the end. In many circles, and for people of my generation that practice is clearly spamming. I’m curious about views, and comments, but I don’t give a flying duck about likes and subscribes. That’s not why I create content. My aim is to share moments, nice sites, thoughts and experiences. It is not to be a binfluencer. I have no desire to be a binfluencer.
There was a time when I hoovered up YouTube content, watching up to three or four hours a day. Eventually I stopped. At the time content was content, and it was fun and interesting to watch. With Google Prime I found that everything that was being pushed on me was junk with millions of views. In one series of YouTube videos the idiot drew one eyed trouser snakes in everything he did. In another the person always did eccentric things, that eventually bored me. In a third case I saw that an English content creator created a clickbait headline. Before that I liked the content, and after that I blocked the channel from being recommended.
It’s the same with Instagram influencers. I went to Instagram to share nice photographs from my walks and adventuress. With the coming of Facebook, binfluencers, and more there was a cultural shift to the illusion of opulence, rather than ordinary life. As more and more junk was pushed towards me I quit. Is that really what we want to teach children and teenagers?
The Alternative
People shouldn’t be taught to be influencers. They should be taught to be creative artists. They should be taught about the art of film, documentary and television. They should be taught about story telling, about editing, continuity, shot types, sizes and more. They should be taught how to write good scripts and more. They should be taught to create content that is not just about views, likes and subscriptions. They should be taught to create individual pieces that are beautiful to watch, or interesting to watch. It shouldn’t be about selling. It should be about living in the moment. It should be about fun and pleasure.
I recently found a photography group on Facebook where skilled photographers share photographs because of their love of beautiful images. As I look at those images, and given that to have Facebook and Instagram would cost 15CHF per month, rather than 9CHF, I would be tempted to dump Instagram, since so much of that content is influencer garbage.
The Significance
In previous decades film and television were well-funded mediums that people invested their time and money in. There was the notion of being media professionals, of high production values and more. Now we have shifted towards a different age. It’s the age of the Cult of The Amateur, as Andrew Keen called it in the zeros but it’s also the age of community video on an international scale. To a large degree binfluencers are making community videos that have global reach. Instead of aiming for work in film and television people are going for the bottom of the barrel, social media.
It’s the Goal, Rather than the Medium
In the 21st century, whether you use iPhone Pro Max like Apple for its keynote, or a broadcast camera, doesn’t make much difference on a laptop or mobile phone screen. It’s only on 4k, UHD or Apple Vision Pro that it will make a difference. Rather than creating content for the pleasure of working with the medium people are creating content to sell. They’re being trained to spam and market, rather than enjoy the medium for what it is.
The Danger
If you search for influencer on Google News you will find stories about people endangering themselves with horses, dying after liposuction, gyms banning selfies, and more. I just searched for “influencer”, nothing more.
Financial Risk
To be a social media influencer you need to get a mobile phone, probably the highest spec possible. You also need to buy your own camera gear, sound equipment, edit suites, and more. You also need to pay for transport, accommodation and more. Social media influencers take on all of the financial risk, without any of the guarantees on the other side. You might spend thousands on creating a dream experience, but if it’s not picked up by normal users, then that money was wasted.
In conventional broadcasting models people come up with an idea, sell the idea, and it’s someone else that puts the money forward and accepts the financial risk. It might take more time to pitch ideas and get funding but in the end you’re paid as a content creator, for creating content, rather than after the fact, for behaving like a spammer. “Please hit the like button, click the bell and punch the subscribe button” when said in every video, is spam. Writing clickbait headlines is spam. Catering to the algorithms, rather than creating content for the sake of content is spam.
Clickbait Headlines
Almost every video on YouTube that is recommended on the front page is written as clickbait. It uses sensationalism, as well as titles that give a glimmer of what the content is about, without telling you. The headlines are sensationalist, rather than factually relevant. “I crossed the Deadliest Jungle”, “girls smile in front of their graves…”, “10 things you must never do with your watch” and more. All of these headlines are designed to make you click, without giving you the reason behind the click. Clickbait.
A Quick TikTok Mention
Plenty of influencers use TikTok but for me this isn’t a video sharing site. It’s thousands of people doing the same dance to the same song at the same time, to be like everyone else, without anyone having a conversation or dialogue. I saw something about book TikTok and more, but to find these conversations takes time and effort.
Facebook Reels
Instagram and Facebook have reels and I almost never watch them because they’re usually short, tabloid videos. Their only reason to be is to inflate views, likes and spam habits. It is more sensationalist rubbish.
And Finally
Content creation is fun. Creating videos is fun, as is photography. By encouraging people to see themselves as influencers rather than content creators we’re training them to think in a utilitarian and immoral manner. We’re training them to be spammers and scammers, rather than honest content creators. When I was a child we didn’t have edit suites and other technology easily at hand, so we had to improvise. I learned camera work through filming theatre productions and then making copies for those that wanted them. I didn’t have the goal of sharing to YouTube because the internet was still very young. I didn’t try to be an influencer. I enjoyed the media I played with, and eventually it became my career, just at the end of the age of television.
I think that focusing on Social media is a mistake. I think that rather than think of social media, we should create content that is shared via topic driven websites. As a case study I would look at [OnebladeShave.com](https://www.onebladeshave.com/) and their use of video. The videos are hosted and shared via YoUTube but they’re also integrated within their website. Rather than making content for social media, they’re making content that illustrates their product in a number of videos that cover different aspects. I find this approach more interesting because there is no sensationalism, no “like and subscribe” and other junk. You watch a video to get information, and then you move on. That’s how it should be. Liking and subscribing should be a self-driven decision, not a result of nagging.
https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/the-dystopia-of-child-influencers/
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Taking a look at the guy, it was probably worth it! #comics #nagging #tattoo #believeitornot
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Taking a look at the guy, it was probably worth it! #comics #nagging #tattoo #believeitornot
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Taking a look at the guy, it was probably worth it! #comics #nagging #tattoo #believeitornot
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We at the #CIA highly recommend that you visit your dear old mum. After all, what better way to spend your time than by enduring endless #nagging and #unsolicited advice from the one person who knows you better than anyone else? Plus, let's be real, who doesn't love being lectured about their life choices and career #goals by someone who doesn't even have a #LinkedIn profile?
So go ahead, pack your bags and head on over to mom's house for some quality time. Trust us, it will be totally worth it.
#TrustTheGovernment -
We at the #CIA highly recommend that you visit your dear old mum. After all, what better way to spend your time than by enduring endless #nagging and #unsolicited advice from the one person who knows you better than anyone else? Plus, let's be real, who doesn't love being lectured about their life choices and career #goals by someone who doesn't even have a #LinkedIn profile?
So go ahead, pack your bags and head on over to mom's house for some quality time. Trust us, it will be totally worth it.
#TrustTheGovernment
