iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

missed opportunity for meowist memes

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

Found this event posting that showed up on my wall the other day kind of laughable. It's a Fast Times/Clueless double-bill at a local rep house in August. There are currently 906 people who are going. The theatre holds 200-250, and on the night of the screening it'll be me and 40 other people. Great way to apprise the world of all the great stuff you'll be attending without ever having to show up for any of it.

tbf if there were free booze they'd all show up & then some

xp plenty of ppl, me included, will "join" events as a way to have all their social/cultural options on the event calendar and then choose what to actually go to based on that short-list.

best bit is when it announces "[Bananaman Begins] went to [some shit]" and is nearly always incorrect.

I find it particularly annoying when ppl put themselves down as attending things when they're not even in the same country as the event

funny, i find it particularly annoying when people invite me to events on different continents from the one i live on

If people unfollow me, and never message me on IM, then i'd rather they just sent an IM saying that as they never see any of my posts or chat to me then they will unfriend me and do so.
But people never have the honesty or guts to do that so they either unfriend you without warning or just keep you unfollowed.

u ok hun?

lol

was just on offshoot of an earlier fb post i made on the subject

i have no idea if anyone has ever unfollowed me

People are always unfriending me. I never usually notice until they crop up in "people you may know" lists and I'm like "aren't they already my friend?" and it turns out they aren't any more. Oh well.

"always" = about three people, I think.

there's someone on my local neighbourhood thread who occasionally posts completely off-topic "jokey" image shitposts that i find actually super charming because she's just this nice lady from the neighbourhood who's trying to brighten everyone's day. someone decided to drop into the comments and be a facebook cop today so i just responded with "[dude's name], facebook cop" (note: this hood doesn't much care for cops btw) and i ahve now decided that saying "[person's name], facebook cop" is my new favourite thing to write

does everyone get lyft/uber spambots posting to public events pages where you are?

annoying af

particularly when its an event i'm putting on and people ask me when we 'partnered' with lyft or whatever and i just want to shrink into a higgs-boson

god facebook sucks so fucking bad

i don't know why i even go to this site anymore

I avoided it for a couple days, got drawn into a discussion on abortion and healthcare that ended up with me peacing out after some guy with his head up his ass took over the conversation

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6376

iyo did facebook ruin the meaternet

I've just fell victim to the real-name policy. Facebook wants proof of my name, but the name I use on social media is not the name I was born with and I was really quite happy with that. It's so easy to think, "well it's just Facebook, it doesn't matter" but I've already had texts from people (OK, my boyfriend and my mother) wondering what happened to me, plus it's stopping me from accessing all the music groups/pages etc I follow.

Wait what real-name policy

Facebook insists people register under their assigned birth names like i do

fwiw, friend of mine was at some jobcentre bullshit, and they mentioned the danger of putting employers off with social media stuff, my friend was like, pfft I use a fake name anyway, that very evening she was shut out by facecontrol and ordered to provide proof of real name...

who knew job centre employees were utter cunts?

word

loads of my friends have jobs that make it important to remain pseudonymous, maybe fb thinks it would be easier for them to use a fake name at work

tbh Facebook might as well ban my account now, or can I turn it into a fictional band page?

It's not like I'm using a completely made-up name - when I got the email to tell me why I was locked out, I replied explaining that my first name is the same as my real first name and my surname is just the first letter of my real surname. But I doubt that will be enough and I'll just have to get my real name on it. It's just as well I'm not transgender and trying to establish my new identity through self-definition.

altho I don't use a fake name, I think this is the final straw for me. Too big for their boots these fuckers.

god facebook sucks so fucking bad

― marcos, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:21 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know why i even go to this site anymore

― marcos, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:21 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For about the last three months I've been feeling very close to wanting to leave it entirely. Have been posting less, deleted the app from my phone, but can't completely stay away somehow.

It's just like this weird internet junkpile, or I guess junkstream -- baby pictures from hs 'friend' you didn't like enough to keep in touch with --> look at this talented uzbeki 6-year-old breakdancer --> politician we hate said something outrageous! --> failed joke --> local parent selling some garbage --> someone still jocking the Wire --> terrible user someecard --> BEEERRRNIE SANDERS!!! --> bicycles --> IF WE CARED HALF AS MUCH ABOUT X AS WE DID ABOUT Y... --> "hey everyone, I did something on my weekend!" (person you barely know)...

and yet somehow creates this feeling like you need to "check" it to make sure you don't miss anything

basically it's shitty ilx

ilx: facebook, but less shitty

less face, more book

It's just like this weird internet junkpile, or I guess junkstream -- baby pictures from hs 'friend' you didn't like enough to keep in touch with --> look at this talented uzbeki 6-year-old breakdancer --> politician we hate said something outrageous! --> failed joke --> local parent selling some garbage --> someone still jocking the Wire --> terrible user someecard --> BEEERRRNIE SANDERS!!! --> bicycles --> IF WE CARED HALF AS MUCH ABOUT X AS WE DID ABOUT Y... --> "hey everyone, I did something on my weekend!" (person you barely know)...

this is why Facebook is good!

My feed is p sweet tbh

mine too, apart from the endless wittering of CONTROVERSIAL POSTER REDACTED

facebook should develop a big button that inverts your location in the social map and lets you see posts from ppl who aren't so deathly boring and uncool as everyone you know

maybe I need to curate my feed a little better

facebook is the worst bc humanity is the worst

picture a book of human faces, being clicked on, for eternity

humanity is the worst but with social media websites the design and the format definitely shapes folks' posting style and for whatever reason facebook seems to bring out the most dull and irritating in people or something. i just deactivated my faceboo, feeling free.

My feed is p sweet tbh

― j.enjoyhotdogs (wins), Friday, July 31, 2015 1:02 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my advice is follow national parks and the national weather service

i need to start aggressively hiding people who constantly (like several times a day) post links to depressing news and think pieces about depressing news