Social Media 'Influencers' - What ?

[thaibeachlovers]

On 5/27/2021 at 11:12 PM, canthai55 said:

My view - the only people who influence me are the ones who taught me how to do things, how to survive in this world, how to think for myself and not blindly follow the Status Quo, how not to be an Ash Hole.

Anyone who follows anybody for any other reason is why the term Sheeple was coined.

 

Sadly, there is a lot of "baaaaaahing" going on out there.

[Leaver]

On 5/27/2021 at 6:12 PM, canthai55 said:

My view - the only people who influence me are the ones who taught me how to do things, how to survive in this world, how to think for myself and not blindly follow the Status Quo, how not to be an Ash Hole.

Anyone who follows anybody for any other reason is why the term Sheeple was coined.

 

 

Interesting post.

 

Have you ever watched a You Tube tutorial on how to do something?  For example, if I have a problem with my computer, most of the time the solution is on a

You Tube clip.  Does that make the person in the clip an influencer, or a teacher, and if a teacher, haven't they influenced me in some way, to my own benefit?  

 

Edited May 29, 2021 by Leaver

[asiacurious]

Is one allowed to post something like this?  If not, I guess a moderator will remove it.

 

 

Edited May 29, 2021 by asiacurious

[canthai55]

6 hours ago, Leaver said:

Have you ever watched a You Tube tutorial on how to do something? 

Read the first line of my post

[sipi]

I'm watching a 21 year old "influencer" telling the world they've crossed a dozen international borders and they are "world wise", and I'm thinking "Jesus my 10 year old has already been around more than you".

If you're younger than me, or if you haven't filled 6 passports, I'm not interested.

[Leaver]

10 hours ago, canthai55 said:

Read the first line of my post

 

I did.  

 

So, are you happy to learn new skills on social media, or not?  

[covidiot]

have you ever asked yourself why donald trump tweeted so much? he was a social media influencer, wasn't he? not always influencing people a positive way, in my opinion.

 

but everyone has access to the technology. and anyone can put themselves out there and hopefully influence people in a more positive way.

 

give peace a chance (shameless plug/subliminal message to promote peace!)

 

Edited May 30, 2021 by covidiot

[BumGun]

On 5/25/2021 at 6:59 PM, Pilotman said:

Okay, so what are these people who term themselves 'influencers'. 

 

Super large followings on various social media apps

 

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Are they just self obsessed, untalented morons, 'influencing' equally moronic, socially deficient, intellectually challenged members of the social media world

 

or as the rest of the world calls them, business people.

 

You do know why Nike etc pays big money to people yeah ? To influence what they buy ? Same here, how they manipulate people to stay on their channels is my interest eg deliberate spelling mistakes and slips of language to get heated debate going etc but how is that any different to paying a few suffragettes way back in the day to smoke cigarettes to get them to influence other women to smoke, as it was frowned upon for women to smoke way back then.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

On 5/31/2021 at 1:30 AM, covidiot said:

give peace a chance (shameless plug/subliminal message to promote peace!)

Jokin' right?

I doubt there has been a day in my life when there wasn't a war going on somewhere in the world. Peace, IMO is the gap between wars, usually, IMO, to allow enough cannon fodder to be born for the next one.

 

Why? IMO war is incredibly profitable for the 1%.