OMG I WOULD POWERWASH TF OUT OF THE CLOCK TOWER

These seem to be based on some core concepts of psychology and interpersonal influence (intended or not). I used to work in that area and picked up a few of these tricks along the way too.

Basically what they do is give your recipient a clear call to action-if you want them to do something, it’s best to ask directly VS tiptoeing around. The best example there being the just wanted to check in one. If you want an update, ask for it. That way there’s no ambiguity what the response needs to be and they can fire it off quickly without thinking. You can wordsmith it to fit your style and company culture but the point is to tell them what you want them to do.

The other thing I see here is a sort of 2-parter. It’s about conveying confidence and positivity in your tone. There’s a lot of nuance to this and personal communication style and context of the situation play in more. But basically these items like ‘nice catch!’ and ‘thanks for your patience’ all kind of do this, showing a kind of team player attitude that also demonstrates that you know your own worth. ‘Happy to help’ does something similar but is more subtle-it avoids the negative tone of things like ‘no problem’ and goes a bit further.

Individually theses communications may have a minimal impact (depending on the situation of course) but over time using this kind of language associates you with positivity and confidence and can help you with with you building work relationships.

While I generally agree, I think if the internet has taught me anything, it is that the majority of people are, in fact, very, very VERY stupid.

Relevant

https://youtu.be/5iNLeWnkW4s?si=IcchyyOSROLIsGwL

So how does this work in reality though? Most of the feed is sponsored content. Does that mean that for paid users they would only see posts from their own friends? As in, they get the intended experience of fb?

Imagine paying to get the product a company pretends it is delivering for free. And they still mine your data to sell to the highest any bidder.

This is a terrible take. Maybe someday your livelihood will be challenged by technology and you’ll get to see why.

Why is the focus only on identifying AI generated photos? Why not force a tag on all AI generated content period? That would help with a lot of applications.

They can call it that but I don’t believe for one second that Meta can’t read everything in the groups and use it for advertising

The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.

Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.

And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I’m feeling out of the loop

OMIGOD please let us not have the right to repair conversation about fucking cars.

But this is probably where we are heading unfortunately.