What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?
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What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?
Another example of the legibility margin is online publishers. Take Facebook as an example. If I told you that you had to start paying $50/year to use Facebook, would you give it up?
Many people probably would, or they never would have joined in the first place. Yet, that’s how much Facebook earns from your account.
They make around $48.76 per year p... See more
Many people probably would, or they never would have joined in the first place. Yet, that’s how much Facebook earns from your account.
They make around $48.76 per year p... See more
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
Social media is similar to sharecropping :
- We’re "renting" space on a platform we don’t own
- We’re paying for that space by becoming “the product” whose attention is sold to the highest ads bidder
- Our attention is also being usurped by the makers of the platform and what they’ve programmed their algorithm to show us, and
- Our data is being collect