I watched oh so many good bloggers get sucked into the black void of Facebook;
As old media looks for a return to the limited and monolithic days of old, it’s a reminder that on the Internet, abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives.
All praise the algorithm.
They very much want to get back to the cable TV model where they were paid stupendous amounts of money for running crap that no one watched. Golf channel, 3AM? No one EVER watched it, but they still got paid.
Their problem right now is that streaming means that shows which are on the service but are not streamed do not make any money. The CUSTOMER chooses what to stream, not Netflix. And the customer chooses shows based the quality and watch-ability of the show.
Therefore where they used to get paid for Putting Tips With Pete on the Golf Channel at 3AM, absolutely no one is choosing it to stream because it is mind-numbing crap. And the whole industry has been making crap for so long that anyone with an ounce of talent or writing ability left 20 years ago.
So now they’re stuck. Cable is dying, and streaming is dying too. What they want is to reconstruct the cable model on streaming, where you pay for a bunch of channels that each have one or two good shows, and the rest is crap.
IF each channel had 1 or 2 good shows I can honestly say I’d be satisfied. Currently, out of HUNDREDS of channels I can think of maybe 5 that I look at because they have 1 or 2 shows that I’ll watch.
I’m suggesting you’ve politely understated just how shitty 99% of it is. When I do the math it astounds me that I pay so much for so little.
50% WETA UK, 10% Newsmax, 10% Movies Network, 10% Monumental (hockey) 10% other.
I remember when the Si-Fi channel was fun. Not anymore.
I got so hooked onto ‘Stargate SG1’ when I was in the US. Si-Fi would play 5 episodes a night.
It wasn’t ‘Star Trek’ and it was a fun show.
Yes, I can’t think of a better reason why the world seems so stupid right now. Bad ideas constantly.
Don’t have Facebook, don’t have a TV.
Am I missing anything?
AIO computers done dirt cheap.
I waited to get on Facebook. I wanted to see how it would go. It took almost no time to realize that a product with free posting and no advertising meant that the user was the product. Then the woke censorship kicked in and it made a bad situation worse. So waiting paid off and I gave it a pass.
I lasted 3 months on FB
When I started getting emails and pictures from High-school friends day afterday for no reason at all. I gave up
The old blogosphere was so much fun. So many voices. So much personality. So many Dan Rathers to tear down with truth.
I mark the day Obama successfully banned the app that allowed anyone to recreate his “Change” poster with their own caption, (“Kenyesian” was a fun one, tame but made at least two points at once), as the moment censorship entered and the freedom of the blogosphere began to collapse. Facebook and the like contributed the near death blow.
Remember when Yahoo! Had it all?
No. I’ve heard the name, never went there so that’s all I remember about it.
Remember Netscape? Remember when Yahoo and Netscape were going to merge, move to Israel, and change their name to Net ‘n’ Yahoo? Those were happy times. How we laughed!
But then I had to leave the mental hospital. That’s another story.
I’ve never been on Facebook. One of my relatives said if I was on Facebook I could post photos of my friends and family. I asked why? He looked at me like I was an anti-social moron. Which may be true.
Steve, Your post made me smile, I’m the same, never had face plant or twatter or any of the others. I guess I too, am an anti social moron. I guess it fits, because I could care less about such platforms.
Being old and enlightened, does have it’s advantages!
BTW…lol…Facebook.
Grandpa….
“Farcebook”?
The greatest miner and aggregator of personal information in human history, so far.