Onion launches own social medium

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Onion launches own social medium

Post by Tero » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:23 pm

I did not join. It asked for names and phone numbers.
https://onionsocial.com/welcome-to-onio ... 1826614110
I think I never gave FB a phone number.
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Post by Tero » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:24 pm

https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Post by Tero » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:25 pm

The Onion is on a crusade against Mark Zuckerberg because it says Facebook is choking its traffic
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-onio ... ook-2018-6
The Onion's criticism of Facebook could be about two different things:
So what's The Onion playing at? Nackers was highly critical of Facebook in his statement, calling it "an unwanted interloper between The Onion and our audience. He cited how the publication's Facebook fans "receive an ever-decreasing amount of the content we publish on the network" — That's most likely a reference to Facebook's News Feed, which only shows a publisher's posts to a certain number of that publisher's followers. Companies can pay Facebook to "promote" their posts so that they reach a larger number of their followers.
That is badly explaining that FB shows Onion stories but Onion does not get the advertising credit from that.
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Post by Rum » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:45 pm

You know it is a spoof right? Fun to follow the sign up all the way (It accepts any old nonsense)..and at the end..

Your application to Onion Social has been rejected. Unfortunately, we were only able to accept the brightest luminaries into the small, 6.3 billion-person beta group. Perhaps it’s worthwhile to take a moment to focus on yourself and what precisely about your choices in life made you ineligible for this truly revolutionary social media experience.


It also says it has 21 billion members!

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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:49 pm

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (FANG) will soon be forced to attack and devour each other. When that day comes The Onion will be ready to pounce.
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Post by Tero » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:49 pm

I figured something like. I never finish the surveys that ask me this and that and tell me something about myself because they have the endless questions at the start. Those need to be spoofed.
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Post by Rum » Mon Jun 18, 2018 9:04 pm

Tero wrote:
Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:49 pm
I figured something like. I never finish the surveys that ask me this and that and tell me something about myself because they have the endless questions at the start. Those need to be spoofed.
I was pretty sure when I typed 'fuck off' into the phone number slot and is accepted it....

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Post by Tero » Mon Jun 18, 2018 9:28 pm

I did not get that far. I once gave my phone number to a healthcare site and they called me to sell insurance for half a year. The calls came from numerous states.
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Jun 18, 2018 11:07 pm

Scot Dutchy asked me to let you all know that he hates Facebook and will never use it.
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Post by JimC » Mon Jun 18, 2018 11:10 pm

:lol:

Then there's their social club, Pickled Onions...
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Post by Tero » Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:27 am

Where is the parody? (Social tedium)
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Post by Tero » Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:28 am

” I first heard of the social-media when it was given as the latest answer to the eternal question of what, exactly, my employees do all God-damned day. Naturally, not knowing exactly what social-media was, I had my solicitor, Beavers, procure an expert in this suspiciously contemporary field. However, I was not prepared for the appearance in my bed-chamber of a distressingly hirsute, copiously beard-oiled young gentleman of roughly 30 winters’ vintage, and initially summoned my Swiss guard to carve him into head cheese. However, Beavers beseeched me to stay my hand, saying the apparent carnival roustabout was in truth a suspiciously intelligent sociable-media wunder-kind! I satisfied myself by having him merely depilated, degreased, and brought beside my iron lung at axe-point, there to instruct me as to how The Onion should navigate the brambles and thorns of this new social-media land-scape, a region intolerably foreign to me.”
https://www.theonion.com/i-am-leaving-t ... 1826907443
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:51 am

Never see the point of the onion. It is not even like Private Eye which actually does get things done.
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Re: Onion launches own social medium

Post by Rum » Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:06 pm

Oh come on now - you are turning German (i.e. where's your sense of humour?). With headlines like these whta's not to like?

Jeff Sessions Argues Family Separations Only Happening Because Current Law Doesn’t Allow Him To Strangle Immigrants With Bare Hands

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Post by Tero » Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:32 pm

Turning German
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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