I realize that my way of living includes placing the future in line with the present so perhaps this is why this film seems to have less impact on me personally than on most other people.
I didn’t really see anything eye-opening because everything that was discussed in the film is what I’ve intuitively known for a long time. But I also feel like I’m not the only one around me who kinda knew, too. Especially in the digital marketing circles.
Being a marketer myself, I’m on both sides of social media – as a personal user, and as a business advertiser. I see the pros and cons of the platforms from both sides, and over the years have tried to use them strategically while staying emotionally detached, unlike many of the less consciously aware people targetted by Facebook.
I cannot begin to count the number of people in my own newsfeed over the years who voiced their discontent over the fact that such a small amount of people react to their posts (validation dependency alert as discussed in The Social Dilemma).
Asking people to “comment if you see this post” and complaining that their “friends” aren’t supporting their businesses that they try to use their personal Facebook page for, has always looked comical in my eyes.
You are complaining about an algorithm that decides what limited number of people sees your content! And you are sad that only 10 people liked your post vs 100 that some Mary or Jane got for theirs.
But now you know that they got targeted by a certain type of advertisers hence Facebook pushed their post in front of more eyes who’d be eager to see the adverts.
What use for Facebook is Lera Salt’s posts about astrology predictions if astrology businesses don’t YET spend enough money on the platform??!! (The spiritual services industry is an over 2 billion dollar industry but it is still largely dominated by unpaid promos).
It’s not that Lera’s following/social influence dropped if her posts now suddenly get 10-20 reactions but that Facebook doesn’t see her as a highly profitable source anymore. It’s that simple.
Why does Lera often hold off on jumping onto the latest “news” share or social buzz train and just observes people ‘s behavior for awhile before making a post about it? Because the faster she was to join the “party”, the more conditioned for following the algorithm’s function she’d become. It’s that simple.
When you are dependent on the number of people who validate your posts, you are being shown your own FEARS. Fears of not being good enough, of not being successful enough, of not being important enough for the society or your circle, and of living your life unnoticed. All because instead of discovering your purpose, your calling in life, you focus on discovering new ways to beat the algorithm and human psychology.
Fashion trendsetting styles on Gawker
I’ll let you in on a little “secret”.
In esoterics ie the hidden wisdom, when your social circles seem to drop off, when you look as though you think or behave differently, when it feels as though you keep paddling against the current, that is the key moment when your life is about to change.
And whether that inevitable change is for the better will depend on your level of self-awareness and ability to hear yourself vs everyone else on the planet.
Because as an individual you weren’t created to follow Facebook’s algorithm. You were created to follow a totally different kind of algorithm that is built into your own soul and karmic past.
We are all programmed. But the program I’m talking about is not social conditioning-related. It’s on a soul level.
And if you go against your soul’s and karmic program, that is where you start getting physically sick. Yes, physical sicknesses have a lot to do with your soul’s program.
And when you pile on Facebook’s own program on top of yours, you will have a much harder time hearing yourself and avoiding the particular kind of physical illness that was pre-programmed in you at the time of your entrance into this body.
Learn to use social media as your strategic tool, and not as your program controller.
Photo: eyes from Ancient Egypt. More fascinating than the eyes that spy on you on Facebook, IMO.
No debet cotidieque sit. Usu lobortis philosophia ex, nostro maiestatis eum no. Ad pro latine comprehensam. Pri quis erant laudem an, et vix propriae omnesque delicatissimi. Ei pro autem quidam perpetua. No debet cotidieque sit. Usu lobortis philosophia ex, nostro maiestatis eum no. Ad pro latine comprehensam. Pri quis erant laudem an, et vix propriae omnesque delicatissimi.u00a0
