My feed is p sweet tbh
― j.enjoyhotdogs (wins), Friday, July 31, 2015 1:02 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Friday, 31 July 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
my advice is follow national parks and the national weather service
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Friday, 31 July 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Friday, 31 July 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Friday, 31 July 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
also multiple people posting the same thinkpiece
also when the thinkpieces are from different publications they all piece about the same thinks
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
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.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 31 July 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
you mean amused
― five six and (man alive), Friday, 31 July 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
true, dat.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 31 July 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
the evolution of Cecil the Lion as meme on my fb feed has made me feel like a decent curator of my personal brand
― sarahell, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness)
^^^
― balls, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― balls, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― balls, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
does anyone have a good facebook feed?
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Friday, 31 July 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
wins said his is pretty dope
― sarahell, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
mine too, apart from the endless wittering of CONTROVERSIAL POSTER REDACTED
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague),
fu I've slowed it way down
― irl lol (darraghmac), Friday, 31 July 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Friday, 31 July 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
i feel like the algorithm is kinda crappy and questionable when you have over a certain number of friends. I routinely unfollow the boring ppl, but outside of going one-by-one through my friends list and doing something (?) so that the algorithm will show me more of their posts, i feel like there are a ton of ppl i'm only friends with in theory.
― sarahell, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
i resisted facebook for a while and then finally it became like not having a phone or not owning a tv and at first i was fairly strict w/ who i friended and then that slackened and now i'm at the point where the other day i accepted a friend request from someone on the basis of i think i may have bought ginger ale at his store once.
― balls, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
i just unfollowed a half dozen boring ppl, this thread really helps with my productivity
― sarahell, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
― irl lol (darraghmac), Friday, July 31, 2015 11:12 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm sorry this is just how i feel
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 July 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
the good thing about unfollowing is you can still go their page if you're curious if anything interesting has happened and find out that no, nothing interesting has happened
― balls, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
both noodle vague and balls are otm and good fb posters
― sarahell, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
This has inspired me to unfollow a bunch of people.
I do feel like there's something over reactive about the algorithm. Like you give someone a couple courtesy likes and suddenly they're blowing up your feed. And the more you get someone in your feed the more likely you are to give them more courtesy likes.
― five six and (man alive), Friday, 31 July 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
boggles my mind that Facebook is still experiencing user growth
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
seriously, I now get apprehensive about liking posts by relatively dull ppl -- if I like this picture of the cool vintage suit this person bought at a thrift store, i will end up seeing more posts by her, the high points are those of her dog, and her dog isn't that great tbrr
― sarahell, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
one simultaneously cool and sad thing about facebook is done right it turns yr friends and acquaintances into content aggregators
― balls, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
sarahell truth bomb about the anxiety of likes in the age of the algorithm
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 July 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
i think judicious unfollowing has given me a pretty good feed, but maybe only to the extent that i got rid of all the people who post all the time so really not very much happens at all.
i got unfriended for i think the first time recently, by an amanda palmer fan. i can't think of any particular plausible causes, so i'm hoping i just have such an annoying self-centred social media presence that even ampam supporters can't stand me.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 1 August 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
potentially scaring business away from the doofus hemingway larping safari market, these are tangible, worthwhile goals and not insignificant ones imo
my feed today was like half links to the "internet mob justice about this lion has gone too far" thinkpiece in vox.
the worst thing about Facebook for me is when someone you met recently and they seem kind of cool and they friend you and it's just a constant stream of george takei and ecards about ladies needing wine shit and you feel sad.
― joygoat, Saturday, 1 August 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
then finally it became like not having a phone or not owning a tv
good, then?
i can totally see the point of sharing yr kids photos with all the grandparents at once etc. everything else about it sucks and always has, even apart from george takei
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 August 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link
I have gotten unfriended quite a few times bc of rl "drama"
my feed is pretty good these days! the US national weather service provides good content ime. most of my feed are from sites I've liked, relatively few "friends" post anything in comparison. I have a couple of friends who mostly post about needing wine and related drama but it's ok, my life is o/w drama free so it gets the blood moving a little
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 1 August 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link
I actually feel kind of sad that facebook makes me judge people by their george takei shares and such, cuz some of those people are people I used to have fun hanging out with in real life, but on facebook it's all about judging how refined their taste in internet is. Of course without facebook I probably wouldn't be in touch with a lot of them anyway.
― five six and (man alive), Saturday, 1 August 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
lol. no it was just i'd run into ppl and they'd be like 'i need to invite you to something, how do i invite you, you're not on facebook???' like they'd forgotten any other mode of communication or, worse, i'd have friends who told me they respected me for not being on facebook.
― balls, Saturday, 1 August 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
I've been using the Groups app more and more. Since the only thing I need to read are the various groups, like my neighborhood association, running groups, etc. Less takei there.
― Jeff, Saturday, 1 August 2015 09:48 (nine years ago) link
90% of my friends assume that a FB invitation will reach me, which it won't, cause I'm not on FB. on the other hand I probably wouldn't go to 90% of those things in the first place, so.. shrug_emoticon.tiff
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 August 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
http://thedatadrive.com/
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
otm
it's been amazing to see so many idiotic and boring things posted by old friends, current friends etc. actually, it's turned me into a self righteous asshole. when one of my bff's sisters posts constant anti-vax stuff, i almost can't resist commenting in a really know-it-all way. or passive-agressively posting a link to pro-vax stuff via my status. and sooooooo many people only ever post corny as fuck memes, or share business pages to be in the draw for a prize (my little sister is so guilty of that), and never post anything about themselves???
i unfriended my uncle for posting some anti-muslim shit a while ago, that was in the context of 9-11 (he lives in nz! he's never even been out of the country!). i always hated him anyway.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link
ok anti-vax shit I give no quarter, but corny stuff I really should give more of a pass.
― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
there are definitely no winners when you find yourself judging perfectly nice people for being bad at the internet
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
it's kinda comforting to know that basically everyone ends up corny
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
no it's not
― j., Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
Turns out in recent weeks the guy I was best friends with and lived with all through university is a big Tory and pro-privatisation fan. Who'd have known? Not me because we never discussed politics at uni.
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Especially since there are probably lots of people who only post non-terrible stuff and are up to speed with "being good at internet" but, e.g., read terrible books or are cruel to their children and spouses or are otherwise bad at life in ways that aren't visible on the screen.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
they should post more updates about being cruel to their children and spouses
― j., Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
I used to post more stuff about my life but I feel like I'm one of the only people on my feed who does, and so it now feels awkward, naked. I'd prefer to see just semi-self-aware reflections on mundane things but in 2015 people have outsourced that to think pieces imo
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Nb I don't know how to Twitter maybe that's what I really want
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
'X is a mutual friend'
… of Y, who you don't know at all, and you, who you are
i'm sure all my friends are mutual friends of me and all the fuckers they know that i don't, yeah, but what does that have to do with me
grrrrr
― j., Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
yes
― it me, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
I used to post more stuff about my life but I feel like I'm one of the only people on my feed who does, and so it now feels awkward, naked.
yeah there's a void now in social networking sites - a smaller more private network where you only share stuff with actual friends.
what if path was actually a good idea but was five years too early
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link