Influencers

[HONDO74]

I know this has been around for awhile but it is popping up in the news more often now.

Entrepreneurs, Capitalism,free enterprise and Social media at work.

Influencers: How a 'new breed' of social media stars changed the game
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47573135

[Roy]

Interesting. Of course, many of us who post about our O gauge projects hope to help other hobbyists, and/or the manufacturers.

[HONDO74]

Health groups call out tobacco marketing aimed at teens on social media
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-gro ... ial-media/

Tobacco and e-cigarette companies are paying so-called social media influencers -- quasi-celebrities with large followings -- to promote and market their products directly to young people on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, according to a letter from more than 100 public health and tobacco-free organizations.

Instagram and parent company Facebook both ban tobacco advertisements and Twitter said it prohibits "the promotion of tobacco products, accessories and brands worldwide," Reuters reported. "But the loophole is that the bans don't cover paid influencers and they don't have a mechanism for tracking those kinds of posts," Myers said.

[healey36]

All goes back to the majority of Americans being incapable of thinking for themselves.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

All goes back to the majority of Americans being incapable of thinking for themselves.

If they were incapable, they'd have an excuse. They're unwilling to think for themselves. They're sheeple waiting to be told what to think, and what to believe, and what's true and what's false.

[up148]

All goes back to the majority of Americans being incapable of thinking for themselves.

If they were incapable, they'd have an excuse. They're unwilling to think for themselves. They're sheeple waiting to be told what to think, and what to believe, and what's true and what's false.

Yes, and I think it has been like this for much longer than we realize.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Interesting. Of course, many of us who post about our O gauge projects hope to help other hobbyists, and/or the manufacturers.

Plus, I think, it is very attractive when we find we have things in-common with others, kind of a "pack-building" quality which attends to survival and pleasant self-imaging and being attached to others in a variety of ways.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting. Of course, many of us who post about our O gauge projects hope to help other hobbyists, and/or the manufacturers.

Many? Not here....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Speaking of thinking for ourselves , "Ancient Aliens, 'The Visionaries'," S11; E5 has caused (it's on right now) me to have a spontaneous thought:

Is it possible that since we are fast approaching a time when every human on Earth will be Web-connected," wouldn't it be possible for an outside force or entity to be able to address the entire world simultaneously , at the same moment and purpose?

[rogruth]

All goes back to the majority of Americans being incapable of thinking for themselves.

If they were incapable, they'd have an excuse. They're unwilling to think for themselves. They're sheeple waiting to be told what to think, and what to believe, and what's true and what's false.

Yes, and I think it has been like this for much longer than we realize.

I agree. However with the type of communication we have today between so many people it is probably more effective now.

[rogruth]

Speaking of thinking for ourselves , "Ancient Aliens, 'The Visionaries'," S11; E5 has caused (it's on right now) me to have a spontaneous thought:

Is it possible that since we are fast approaching a time when every human on Earth will be Web-connected," wouldn't it be possible for an outside force or entity to be able to address the entire world simultaneously , at the same moment and purpose?

This has been used in Sci-Fi for many years.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Speaking of all of the above, couldn't the Hair-do-in-Chief have gotten a haircut, at least, to meet the Queen?! Maybe he could have viewed such an action as redacting that head, and hopefully that "D-A" at the back collar would have been out of sight permanently.

Jus' sayin' . Does that make me a bad person ?

(OK. Let me have it . I can take it.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Does that make me a bad person ?

[HONDO74]

Speaking of all of the above, couldn't the Hair-do-in-Chief have gotten a haircut, at least, to meet the Queen?! Maybe he could have viewed such an action as redacting that head, and hopefully that "D-A" at the back collar would have been out of sight permanently.

Jus' sayin' . Does that make me a bad person ?

(OK. Let me have it . I can take it.)

Guess you missed it. Trumps new hair style. Well at least for one day.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Next he'll be sporting a mullet.