iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

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.

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.

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.

i just unfollowed a half dozen boring ppl, this thread really helps with my productivity

fu I've slowed it way down

― 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 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

both noodle vague and balls are otm and good fb posters

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.

boggles my mind that Facebook is still experiencing user growth

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

one simultaneously cool and sad thing about facebook is done right it turns yr friends and acquaintances into content aggregators

sarahell truth bomb about the anxiety of likes in the age of the algorithm

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.

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.

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

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

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.

good, then?

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.

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.

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

http://thedatadrive.com/

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.

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.

ok anti-vax shit I give no quarter, but corny stuff I really should give more of a pass.

there are definitely no winners when you find yourself judging perfectly nice people for being bad at the internet

it's kinda comforting to know that basically everyone ends up corny

no it's not

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.

there are definitely no winners when you find yourself judging perfectly nice people for being bad at the internet

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.

they should post more updates about being cruel to their children and spouses

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

Nb I don't know how to Twitter maybe that's what I really want

'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

yes

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

man if only there was a way to share stuff with actual friends

yesterday someone posted an article criticizing the natural sunscreen Jessica Alba's company put out. I was fighting an almost 103 degree fever/bacterial infection and bored so I found a similar article supporting the one he posted and attached it. His post in response a mere MINUTE later was: "I've never understood why people respond or attach a link to a FB post without liking it first. It's always felt like a social faux paus."

sounds like a cool fucking dude

tell him you don't like his dumb shit because you don't... like his dumb shit

and unfriend his ass

one of the benefits of being sick this week = sleeping when I'd normally be FBing

I've never understood why people respond or attach a link to a FB post without liking it first

lol this statement has actually really wound me up. what kind of whore for likes is this guy

yeah that pisses me off too, moreso for the fact that it implies there's some sort of unwritten etiquette being infringed upon for facebook. it doesn't even make sense. like did i miss an emily post blog or

reminds me of the local metalhead that was like "man I can't believe I have 550+ FB friends and only 95 likes for my band's page, guess you aren't as supportive as I thought"

xp well, there is (nature of the beast of sociality)

but to make a thing of it jesus

Um WHAT? You dont't have to feel a warm and fuzzy emotion about a post to have a response to it.