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"Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" (piefed.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1249337/gen-z-won-t-understand-this-but-back-in-my-day-if-you-ever-saw-as-many-ads-as-you-do-on

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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (6 children)

People ditched Myspace in part because of the ad saturation.

There was a time when Facebook was the clean and minimalist version of social media.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I haven't looked at it since those days. I'd probably get instantaneous eye cancer looking at it today...

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Even just the occasional glance at my spouses' phone screen gives me cancer: it's full of ads or 'sponsored content' or 'content' that's a blatant advertisement.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I rarely venture on FB these days, perhaps twice a year. So I was surprised when I last logged in to find a number of posts from people and groups I've never heard of, because FB had decided I'd probably enjoy their content.

    All it told me was that people aren't posting enough to make the feed worthwhile, so they have to inject bullshit into it too.

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