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@mattcropp@social.coopReally great piece by @sarahjeong about how #Facebook binds us through the automation of #EmotionalLabor:
"It’s hard to pin down what Facebook is because the platform replaces labor that was previously invisible. We have a hard time figuring out what Facebook actually is because we have a hard time admitting that at least part of what it supplanted is emotional labor — hard and valuable work that no one wants to admit was work to begin with."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly #deletefacebook
@mattcropp @sarahjeong The quote you highlighted is the key insight, I think - people want to say that data is the commodity we are giving away but I think it is the commodification of emotional labor (and more -- creativity, humor, mutual support) that needs to be rejected so we can do that labor in a cooperative and free setting.
@mattcropp
- the labour was before visable and is still, many just don't recognize it
- it's nothing specific to facebook, many use different plattforms and experience the same
- it has much to do with positive feedback that can build up an adiction
@sarahjeong
@mattcropp @sarahjeong As a relatively isolated autistic individual, this notion of emotional labor is spot on for me. I got in when FB required .edu address. Pull for me was using it as a crutch to help reach others with similar interests whom I wouldn't otherwise have the IRL social skills to talk to.
Makes sense that people who aren't lacking in that area would likely find the labor invisible.
Crude analogy: people who don't depend on wheelchairs tend not notice when ramps are missing?
Yes! This is how my friends use it too, @ultimape
Pre-FB, we'd just leave a private AIM room open so folks could come and go in that shared space and connection was as easy as logging in to see who else had logged in. It reduced the initial investment of energy to nearly zero, which is how much many a lot of ND ppl realistically have.
Once FB got too big & took control of our notifications, I created a Discord server as an updated version of the old chat.
@Cobalt @mattcropp Exactly. The real-time nature of IRL situations was too much for me to deal with.
Similar trajectory for me: found out about IRC early in my youth via forums. Interacting in online spaces was so much easier; it had that sort of 'slow time' effect. Myspace's feed system was like that as well for a while.
Facebook was great in that it localized the feed around .edu logins and segmented around location - visualizing the real world enough that it made it accessible to me.
