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d13z on April 24, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over

Very true and I think is part of their business model. A more lonely/isolated user is more likely to buy stuff to soothe themselves thus clicking in the advertisements they show.

troupo on April 24, 2025 [–]

Not just theirs.

The recent Switch 2 ad with Paul Rudd replaced friends coming to join him with tiny images on screen, leaving him utterly alone.

Or the Apple "Intelligence" ads that insist on never having any human-to-human communication (let an AI send that letter to mom) etc.

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