[Diana]

Despite thousands of horrible reviews online they still keep signing up for dumpster fire web hosting like GoDaddy. WHY!? 😳

[Gabriel]

The power of Super Bowl commercials.

[Linda]

======> ego

Basic psychological validation from the in-crowd media is enough to control the child-like mind of Americans

[Kathleen]

Basic psychological validation from the in-crowd media is enough to control the child-like mind of Americans

lmao isn’t it same for 90% of humans? 👀

[Natalie]

I think it’s the strong consumer mindset in the USA. The culture is very obsessed with following trends, celebrity endorsements, and showing off with brands and products.

Strong branding is effective.

Not many people in the world are going to care about technical details of web hosting. And for consumer culture, they assume the brand is “good” because they saw a lot of advertising and so they think other people must be using it too.

[James]

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23013102/american-consumers-expectations-anger-entitled

“In our culture, we have excessively high expectations,” said Robin Kowalski, a psychology professor at Clemson University who studies complaining. Not just high expectations, but specific ones, about how the economy should run and what we should get out of it. We want things to be cheap, we want things to be fast, we want things to be efficient. For decades, American customers have been told they’re always right. Naturally, they’ve come to believe it.

People aren’t accustomed to having to really think about the trade-offs they make for the economy to run how it does, and when they do have to think about it, they don’t like it. Consumer-centric culture has made it easier for us to be destructive in ways big and small — to workers, to the environment, and to each other. Corporations have manufactured our high expectations, and it’s hard to reverse course.

[Russell]

Sadly, Americans are also less likely to donate to open source projects in my experience, they treat every product and organization the same, like they’re owed something.

Of course there are exceptions but I mean per-capita.

But many of them see WordPress or SlickStack in the same category as McDonald’s, just another brand that owes them customer service etc

However they are also more likely than other countries to donate to things like earthquake victims in some poor country halfway around the world so it’s weird…

[Ashley]

😆

[Marilyn]

Slava Ukraini!

[Daniel]

Indignant boomer: GoDaddy is wonderful, they have phone support! I’m not brainwashed!!

The internet:

GoDaddy had malware on their servers for years and didn’t know it

[Diane]

lmaoooo Daniel…… so true

[Anna]

ironic because most Americans think they are more enlightened than others.

[Ronald]

ZOMG: No one actually wants simplicity…

[Janet]

so what about Canadians?

[Nathan]

making Americans feel more clever than their peers for choosing a product is Marketing Psychology 101 for American corporations. they will lose face if they admit to anyone they were mislead so they mostly rely on cognitive dissonance, esp the men

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