Social Control Media Sites Have Become Bot Farms (Not Limited to LLMs and Automation)
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a loser until realising your entire presence and life is tied to some Web site with superficial, artificial "connections"
The "sharecropping industry" of Social Control Media is not sustainable. The "organic" traffic is down; what's left is bots. Most of this industry loses a ton of money. Social Control Media isn't a business, but governments stand to gain from large-scale propaganda campaigns, so sometimes they sponsor (subsidise/cover losses of) Social Control Media companies/sites. One example of that is ByteDance's TikTok, which works for these men:
Looking around the Web for metrics on Social Control Media, we find stuff like this (updated on Saturday):
linkedin.com was nothing but trouble and losses for Microsoft. There are constantly layoffs there and even entire offices got shut down. One day the entire site will go offline, just like Skype. GitHub is already being mothballed [1, 2] (after many layoffs and office shutdowns) because Microsoft paid for users, not for profits.
So why are sites like these being subsidised? They say that if you don't pay for something that costs money to run, then perhaps you're just the product.
Granted, in Social Control Media/Networks the users are the product. Twitter is the same:
- It's Not Just Twitter (or X.com) That's Dying, Microsoft's Equivalent is Dying Also
- A Lot of What Happened in Twitter Was Bots, Botfarms, and Troll Farms. It's Even Worse Now (Under X.com) and People Are Noticing.
As for Facebook, it's trying - and failing - to rebrand as "hey hi" company, having already failed with a fake currency (acting as a bank) and metaverse, along with a rebrand to that effect ("Meta"). Facebook.com as a site or app is a toxic brand that gradually loses its relevance. Facebook's (or "Meta") debt has skyrocketed. They might say "investing in hey hi", but only fools will buy that excuse. █