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Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media (gizmodo.com)
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[–] justhach@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Last line of the article: "Just like choosing not to ride on airplanes isn’t really an option, for many, using social media isn’t much of a choice either."

That, and not only is not riding on an airplans an option for a lot of people, its their reality for a lot of people and out of reach financially. Way to be completely out of touch, Gizmodo. Couldn't have used a worse example lol.

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I think it’s referring to flights required (and paid) by your job. When a job of mine required me to be in Brussels in two days, I couldn’t tell them that I‘m hitchhiking there for the next month instead.