Fun Facts from the Third Edition!
- STEVE JOBS DISEASE BREAKS OUT NATIONWIDE! CEOs nationwide start wearing black turtlenecks while screaming "disruption!" It all culminates in Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, and the slaughter of billions of innocent investment dollars.
- JEFF BEZOS CENSORS THE WORLD! Using its monopoly/monpsony power, Amazon can can now control what books you can see and read. What could possibly go wrong?
- THE BIG SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES DECIDE THAT HALF OF AMERICA SUCKS! And so does the First Amendment! No Parler for you, American proles! It's all working out wonderfully as half the country returns the sentiment.
- ARON SORKIN WRITES A STEVE JOBS MOVIE WITHOUT A SINGLE FACT IN IT! (Well, there WAS a Steve Jobs.)
- YOUTUBE DISCOVERS ORTHODOX JEW BEN SHAPIRO IS A NAZI! (No, seriously.)
- CHINA CREATES THE WORLD'S MOST EVIL SOCIAL NETWORK. (Tik Tok). Americans clamor to join!
- GOOGLE TURNS SEARCH ENGINE INTO "THE MATRIX!" Billions trapped in fake virtual reality!
- AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
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Excerpt from Chapter 14 "The Social Ministries: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Various Other Enforcers"
LinkedIn’s success in disintermediating its groups from their “owners” did not go unnoticed over at Facebook, now the 900lb gorilla of social networks. In 2014, the company began its own campaign to kick its stakeholders from their positions atop “their” business pages. This was done via, in Facebook’s own jargon, by “reducing organic reach,” in other words, blocking people who signed up for “your” page from seeing “your” posts in “their” Facebook News Feed. Prior to this, if you had a following of 100 people, between 20-to-30 of them would typically see your posts, and the number could be much higher.
Now, that number would be much lower. How much lower? Facebook was a bit coy on the topic, but the answer turned out to be one, or two, or maybe none. What was going to appear in your network’s News Feed instead? Whoever Facebook wanted or whatever and advertiser paid for the privilege.
In other words, Facebook had succeeded overnight in turning your social and business network into their business networkle as lists at great profit. What was their reward for this?
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