Orbited insanitarium wrote:I do often find that the flood of advertisements directed at me is quite difficult to keep up with, where I live at the moment isn’t culturally and technologically busy but it isn’t destitute in those fields ether.
The flurry of recommendations on YouTube that are supposed to be catered towards my interests is scarily accurate, which confuses me because I’ve viewed very few videos (That might have something to do with cookies which follow you around from website to website collecting data for future adverts)
I don’t even know how many cookie spy bots are viewing my posts right now. (Waving hello to google!
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I tend not to even do online shopping because they insist you set up an account and put in all your bank and card details into theirs archives for a better experience.
It does show how we’ve advanced on the online world in the past 10-15 years!
In agreement about the YT recommendations, but I hate that they favor the more dopamine center of my attention and not other aspects I'd rather fill. I try to manipulate the system to fill my recs with old rave tracks and obscure albums, but you watch one or two 15-second joke videos and it's all for nothing. YT is such a great source for finding niche music when you game it right. One time I thought to just click on any YT short that an
attractive woman front and center on the thumbnail just to see how long it would take before that's all I would see in the feed... didn't take me more than 5 minutes
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Rabbit holes are scary.
bleak. wrote:Really interesting topic and somewhat linked to thoughts I've had recently.
I've been interested in the amount of information in which humans are receiving and processing on a daily basis - and the speed in which it's received. If you go back over 100 years or so, prior to the invention of phones, internet, automobiles etc - news/information/media would often be shared by word of mouth or letters. Most news would remain local - and likely to be regarding deaths or marriages. News further afield would take days or weeks to be received. I imagine the world felt a lot bigger back then.
I would assume there would be a closer community and that people would work together in order for that community to function. Note: as I type this, I suppose I have an image of a village in little old West Wales, so my thoughts may not necessarily apply to ALL places - but hope you can catch my drift.
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I think about that kind of thing whenever I pass by the local Slavic church on Sundays; it's always packed with cars all day and I just think about how there are probably a lot of different families in there that know each other, meanwhile it was more difficult than it should be for me to find any info about a murder that happened at a local bar. I guess that's what people use Nextdoor for.
Currently, news from anywhere in the country can capture the public's interest instantly and fade away just as fast, when just 20 or 30 years ago, it would probably stay in the headlines of late night shows for weeks and in the collective memory for months enough for it to end up in an episode of "I Love The 90s" or something later on (anyone remember those shows?). It really puts into question the pertinence of like 90% of what we hear about or are generally exposed to.
I just realized that for someone who listens primarily to electronic genres of music, I'm pretty technologically backwards myself.