Rants about Social Media and marketing
One thing about social media that just frustrates me is the amount of ads, there are so many and most don’t even interest me. I like that there are different sites like Pinterest that added links to their pictures, but lots go to a website like SHEIN, and you know it’s going to be bad. This is why I really liked Etsy but with all the ads I can’t bring myself to go on it.
Another thing is I heard something today that kinda shocked me, in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, a person stated “if you’re not paying, you’re the product being sold.” I hadn’t really thought of that. Something really funny is Netflix was playing adds multiple times throughout the whole documentary, showing even it doesn’t follow what it’s promoting.
How this relates to Ai is the amount of Ai ads, they frustrate the life out of me. Why would anyone want to sacrifice good graphic design and marketing techniques for Ai that makes everyone uncomfortable, or make them view your brand as childish? Even without Ai in ads, ads have become such a common thing people don’t even care to skip them or scroll past due to the next ad piping up right after. Ai ads, and the amount of Ads in general, tend to dissuade users but the algorithms keep us coming back. I would re-evaluate what you really want on your feed instead of what YouTube thinks you want.