For context, I'm a marketing major. Part of the reason why I chose to study marketing is the opportunity to reach people through great storytelling.
I noticed that many people are having the same problem — social media has been a place for ads.
Once a social media platform gained popularity,... See more
reddit.comDo marketers make the internet a worse place? Specifically digital and social media marketers
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Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, perfectly optimized for search engine prominence and to pull in money via ads and affiliate links while simultaneously devoid of any useful information.
Social networks have become “the web” for many... See more
Social networks have become “the web” for many... See more
“Most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust,” Brereton argued, therefore “we resort to using Google, and appending the word ‘reddit’ to the end of our queries.” Brereton cited Google Trends data that show that people are searching the word reddit on Google more than ever before.
Charlie Warzel • Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up?
