iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

"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

yeah my main problem was just so many thinkpieces. also like since my friends are primarily left-wing and educated and live in the northern hemisphere they're all the same thinkpieces, from the same publications, that if I wanted to read I wouldn't need to go to facebook to find them.

also multiple people posting the same thinkpiece

also when the thinkpieces are from different publications they all piece about the same thinks

I was bemused by a couple passages in Matt Haig's The Humans:

Mostly, humans just wanted to know about what was going on within their country, preferably within that bit of the country which was their bit, the more local the better. Given this view, the absolutely ideal human news programme would only concern what was going on inside the house where the human watching it actually lived. The coverage could then be divided up and prioritised on the basis of the specific rooms within that house, with the lead story always being about the room where the television was, and typically concerning the most important fact that it was being watched by a human. But until a human follows the logic of news to this inevitable conclusion, the best they had was local news.

Essentially, social networking on Earth was quite limited... On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a non-sentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee. It was the news show they had been waiting for. It was the show where the news could be all about them.

you mean amused

true, dat.

the evolution of Cecil the Lion as meme on my fb feed has made me feel like a decent curator of my personal brand

my advice is follow national parks and the national weather service

― e-bouquet (mattresslessness)

^^^

kinda feel like cecil the lion and the confederate flag are precisely the level of target internet outrage should be targeted at. like police brutality is too big a target for the internet to do much more than maybe catalyze the first step in a twenty step process that maybe if we're lucky leads to a moderate adjustment in policy. but getting walmart to stop selling the confederate flag or potentially scaring business away from the doofus hemingway larping safari market, these are tangible, worthwhile goals and not insignificant ones imo. is there clearly some odd mechanism at work, is the outrage sincere or faux or outrage for the sake of outrage? yes. i don't find it an inherently immoral tactic, it's one that ppl whose politics i do find inherently immoral resort to effectively, might as well use it imo. if it stops working or leads to a turn towards politics not rooted in irrational anger all the better.

also yr facebook feed is a reflection of yrself, it's what you've made it. if yr friends are tedious bores unfriend them. if it's too painfully awkward and there are potential consequences to unfriending them just unfollow them. posting pictures of yr kids or pets or glorious sunsets you're seeing on yr vacation to glorious panama beach doesn't make you an asshole, bitching about it and then moaning that unfollowing these posts is too much bother makes you an asshole. who the fuck moans about facebook in 2015 anyway? it's like moaning about spam or telemarketers. these problems have been fixed already.

does anyone have a good facebook feed?

wins said his is pretty dope

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

― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague),

fu I've slowed it way down

I remember I used to have good days, like id be like "ha my feed is really funny/entertaining today". can't remember last time I thought that.