A lot of people have just left social media - the combative and the mild alike. And as I’ve gotten older, my impulse has been to communicate more frequently with people in real life (remember that?) or singly or in small groups via text or DM, when I have an opinion that’s barbed or need some specific feedback about something. The whole world doesn’t always need to know why I had a bad day or a bad week (or even if I’ve had a good day or a good week).
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 15 May 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Saw this last night, a new low?
https://i.imgur.com/xGO5U2E.png
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 15:24 (eleven months ago) link
(narrator: I saw plenty of posts from friends, and I never see ads on FB nor anywhere else)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 15:25 (eleven months ago) link
what the hell is this
Sign up for Meta Verified on the web and get all the same benefits at a discount, including a verified badge.
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:27 (seven months ago) link
I enjoy the byproduct of FB that is two strangers ripping into each other on a post about a local event and a friend who somehow knows both people intervening so the other two don't kill each other IRL
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 January 2024 05:45 (four months ago) link
Most of my posts in this thread are about how much I hate Facebook and hate that I've let it become part of my life, so I'm really loathe to defend it in any context. But god it's nauseating to watch Josh Hawley and Lindsey Graham get all self-righteous for the cameras in that hearing today. "You have blood on your hands" says Trump/Jan. 6 apologist Lindsay Graham to the approval of the room.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 February 2024 04:28 (four months ago) link
you don't have to watch that! you and i and everyone except the new york times knows that it's just playacting. don't do it!
that said, the part with tom cotton doggedly asking the singaporean guy if he was a commie spy who approved of tiananemen square was . . . really something
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 February 2024 04:53 (four months ago) link
I wasn't watching, I just caught it on the news. (If I had been watching, though, I'd say so--I hate the supercilious "Why are you watching this?" posting on ILX.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 February 2024 05:24 (four months ago) link
what hearing
― bae (sic), Thursday, 1 February 2024 05:35 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCB-SQJLr9E
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 February 2024 05:44 (four months ago) link
what does he apologise for
― bae (sic), Thursday, 1 February 2024 08:36 (four months ago) link
Anyone else find themselves inundated with unwanted "Reels and short videos?" Every time I hide them and ask for fewer of them, but they're never not there. Complaining via help and support is pointless, of course.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 February 2024 01:53 (three months ago) link
Reels seems to be a big part of FB's business strategy right now: https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-reels-revenue-narrows-tiktok-boosted-by-ai-2023-07-27/
― jaymc, Thursday, 22 February 2024 02:04 (three months ago) link
I'll see if I can talk them into ignoring their marketing strategy to please a retired Canadian grade-school teacher.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 February 2024 02:24 (three months ago) link
What's with this thing where someone posts something fucked up and the first thing someone does is write I HAVE 55 MUTUALS WITH THIS GUY, WTF GUYS, THAT'S FUCKED UP and yet won't state who it is that said it, like everyone knows.
Like I see it all the time now, why is it the assumption that everyone is complicit if they friend someone who eventually says fucked up shit and they're perennially online to the point where they see everything the moment it goes up.
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:12 (one month ago) link
I don't really even add people anymore but can tell you it helps a lot more if you just say "hi this person is fucked up, here's their name" so people actually are aware, particularly when the algorithm hides so much, rather than assuming everyone knows and tolerates it
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:14 (one month ago) link
It’s a bummer when I do open the app and look at memories and 12 years ago see interactions with a dozen people who don’t use Facebook anymore (me either, really), old friends who live thousands of miles away. Now maybe there are some mutual Instagram likes but no real interaction.
The depths of the enshittification of Facebook are astounding.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:41 (one month ago) link