Giveaways and raffles exist to buy your data and influence in exchange for the slightest chance of winning

For so many of us, all we know is the small bubble of the world we live in, so things like this seem perfectly normal and thus perfectly okay. It certainly is normal, but to think it's okay I think misses the reality of what this is: it's not a giveaway at all — they're buying something from you. For the most minuscule chance of winning a second-rate gaming PC, they are buying your data and your influence. What's perhaps more disturbing is that there are people who would willingly give up this information and become a sell out for so little — nothing really, only the smallest chance of something... This is on top of the fact that we rarely have any real way of knowing whether the raffle actually took place — 99% of people probably never check back to see if the prize is actually distributed, so it wouldn't surprise me if many of the times for these types of giveaways the prize is not given away, or it is given away to a company friend. We are given no insight as to the rules around the drawing, when it will take place, who is watching to make sure it's fair, etc. All this amounts to what is likely a near-zero chance of winning these things, and yet people still enter the giveaway freely... How desperate are we? Honestly, I think these kind of giveaways and the responses they get (as seen by the spammy messages from our friends telling us to like this and that product) are quite telling with regard to how well we are all doing in this world... (not very well all, apparently). 😅🙈