Meta are known to fudge the numbers to appeal to investors and boost advertising on their platforms.
Like when they started counting video views when you scroll past it and it barely plays…
so that by the end of the month your video has significantly more “views” than actual (real) views and you think to yourself, this is working.
I left for the final time in 2014, after the job market required me to rejoin just to get an interview. You shouldn’t have to sell data to a company to get a job. That we have normalized this is worrisome.
To be honest, this always happens. So what? Most people want their corporate social media. My parents will never stop using Facebook no matter how bad it gets. I think focusing on metrics like what most people are doing is just a race to the bottom. If we keep building what we want to exist in the world and stop focusing on which platform does the best numbers, I think we will find its quality that counts, not quantity.
My family’s continued existence on meta is 100% related to the Facebook Portal TV. While it works, we’re there. When it doesn’t, we’re gone.
You mean bots? Cuz it’s all bots.
