Pilkins@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Leaving pointless answers/reviews on websitesEnglish
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1 year agoIt’s because a lot of boomers think everything they see on the internet is sent personally to them. Took me years (literal years) to explain to my mom that someone’s Facebook status was not that person sending her a message.
Most don’t even realize the product questions are automated. They think amazon is personally asking them so they feel obliged to respond, even if they don’t know the answer.
It is kind of fucked up. It’s one thing if someone is being abusive/combative and you’re filming them for your own safety, but so many videos are of mentally ill people or addicts acting weird but not harming anyone. People in the US constantly harp on about china’s social credit system, while basically making their own crowd sourced version without any limitations.