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interwhat posted:Uhhh, actually, I haven't felt this free in a while. Im still depressed and hate most of the world around me. But finding myself not putting those feelings out there to all my idiot friends and family, and more importantly, not feeling like agendas and thoughts aren't being injected constantly between my ears has been INSANELY rewarding. It should be a good feeling, friend. The world you live in has always been depressing and bleak, Facebook just allowed you to put the blinders on. hth ly honestly i was never really "on" facebook in the first place... now xanga... i had the gently caress out of a xanga haha getting off facebook was really a formality... but even the little but i was on it, was so awful christ people are so dumb
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I still find it tolerable as long as you avoid their app, and use Social Fixer to hide all the ads and dumb video bullshit they're pushing. But I absolutely won't miss it if it finally dies. I have a lot of international acquaintances, but we'll find other ways to keep in touch, and when those collapse we'll find more. It's the circle of life in the internet age: Thing becomes huge, Thing creator gets rich because obviously Thing is the future forever, the next generation of users doesn't give a poo poo about Thing, and once a successor is clear Thing withers and dies. I hope the dumb Metaverse idea dies with the company, ideally before anyone starts taking out mortgages on NFTs of virtual land.
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I like Facebook marketplace. Rest of it can go to hell though
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bucking social trends and sidestepping groupthink is easy when you're an independent free thinker, who coincidentally doesn't have any friends 
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:I dunno, my friend buys lechon on facebook from some guy that cooks it in his backyard. Also gets fresh crab off someone on Nextdoor. I guess its possible that just code for something else though Virtual reality market farmers with max headroom kramering around in the background. I'm not sure the same would be done here on mad cow island.
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Feb 4, 2022 23:51
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mark zuckerburg is a lil bitch lmaoooo
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precision posted:in retrospect, as stupid as everyone's MySpace was (yes, even yours, and mine, all of them. none of us were cool) at least they had,you know... personality To be fair, the original Facebook profiles were essentially exactly the same as MySpace profiles, just cleaned up and streamlined. I distinctly remember editing my Music/Movies/TV sections on one and copy/pasting to the other, for instance. Early Facebook was awesome and entirely about, well, social networking. Learning about people in your life and finding people with similar interests. It's weird to think about how quaint it started vs. the gargantuan monster it became.
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sporkstand posted:mark zuckerburg is a lil bitch lmaoooo Ran this through a fact checker, turns out it's 100% true!
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:To be fair, the original Facebook profiles were essentially exactly the same as MySpace profiles, just cleaned up and streamlined. I distinctly remember editing my Music/Movies/TV sections on one and copy/pasting to the other, for instance. Early Facebook was awesome and entirely about, well, social networking. Learning about people in your life and finding people with similar interests. It's weird to think about how quaint it started vs. the gargantuan monster it became. Early Facebook was made to creep on girls at Zuck’s school and MySpace let me destroy everyone’s eardrums with horrendous midi covers of Linkin Park songs. Also MySpace Tom was fuckin’ brilliant and cashed out at its height to leave News Corp et. al. to take it in the pants once it crashed down. Basically MySpace was the best social media network because the smart people bailed out and left rich idiots to eat poo poo.
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STABASS posted:bucking social trends and sidestepping groupthink is easy when you're an independent free thinker, who coincidentally doesn't have any friends au contrare mon frere, it seems to me that people who don't have any friends or have never done are the ones who are most poinsoned by Online Cancer
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kntfkr posted:everyone who is not mark zuckerberg, is better than mark zuckerberg. far and away the worst person born in the last 50 years Don't give him the same death as Jesus and St. Peter Pull a Diogenes and throw his body over the wall for the dogs to eat
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im pretty sure Facebook were the bad guys in the Year Zero ARG
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Don't give him the same death as Jesus and St. Peter dont let dogs eat bad robot man.
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Feb 5, 2022 00:46
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Can someone go to whatever university is churning out tech grads, and find what will replace facebook please? SomethingICantRememberTheNameOf -> MySpace -> Facebook -> ??? Second Life is not the correct answer.
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nothing 'needs' to replace facebook. we can just go back to myspace and call it a day
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Doug Sisk posted:SomethingICantRememberTheNameOf -> MySpace -> Facebook -> ??? LiveJournal?
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Junk posted:LiveJournal? Now owned by a Russian company so maybe
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Doug Sisk posted:Can someone go to whatever university is churning out tech grads, and find what will replace facebook please? Ask a teenager.
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Waltzing Along posted:Ask a teenager. TikTok then
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I feel bad for all those people who used to run blingee / pimpmyprofile / AOL buddy icon websites.
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Such a good thread title holy poo poo
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socal media is never going away
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precision posted:socal media is never going away Social media will die with society.
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I worked with Facebook for three years and was horrified about how they talked about targeting behind closed doors. All they care about are "SMB"s or small to medium businesses and how much cash they can extract from them. I visited the head quarters once which is like loving Disneyland but empty. After we walked through security we immediately ran into like 8 nerds on a couch watching horse racing and losing their minds.
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Internet Old One posted:Could be that companies sometimes rebrand when they have a bad reputation. Comcast has atrocious approval ratings and then they rebranded their cable service as Xfinity. wow you really know alot about business
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Gay Hitler posted:I worked with Facebook for three years and was horrified about how they talked about targeting behind closed doors. All they care about are "SMB"s or small to medium businesses and how much cash they can extract from them. I mean it totally makes sense that their target demographic is SMBs. What I don’t understand is why anyone thinks Facebook advertising is worth a drat. They charge so much for so drat little.
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Betty Wight posted:I mean it totally makes sense that their target demographic is SMBs. What I don’t understand is why anyone thinks Facebook advertising is worth a drat. They charge so much for so drat little. It’s not only Facebook. Prices for advertising on all of the major social media platforms have risen. A purely online retailer now has about the same margin as a retailer with a physical store.
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die attention economy, die
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i was just looking into john carmack's role at facebook after the oculus acquisition and yeah it turns out he's neck deep in this meta stuff is this common knowledge that i just missed? cause this is actually really depressing to me. for all his hilarious flaws carmack was always one of my biggest heroes. brb gotta go pop another ambien
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Do you think the world will become marginally less stupid when facebook dies?
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Doug Sisk posted:Can someone go to whatever university is churning out tech grads, and find what will replace facebook please? Instagram. But the fact that I know that means that Instagram isn't cool any more and everyone's on the hip new thing that I don't know about yet.
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Meme Poker Party posted:In recent years we have seen many examples of how a marketing budget + media coverage can make many people believe things that are completely ridiculous. In light of this it's actually kind of impressive the Metaverse is so universally unappealing that no force on this Earth could gaslight people into thinking it's the future/good. It just obviously sucks rear end to anyone who looks at it. We have the discovered the Suck rear end Threshold. The point at which something sucks so much rear end that combined forces of marketing, media, and money are unable to convince the public that a lie is the truth. yeah, it's kind of a silver lining that they seem literally incapable of hiding how morally bankrupt and disgusting they are, and this manifests visually in a way that an average person can understand despite decades of marketing advancements.
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Is there actually anything interesting on Facebook? I mean, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, etc., all those services have some cool stuff hidden in there if you can sift through the large amounts of garbage. Facebook just seems like a place where people mostly talk about themselves, maybe make an attempt to pretend to give a poo poo about distant family members they don't give a poo poo about, and realize how many of their friends and family members are completely unhinged from reality. I just follow a few accounts on Twitter and avoid reading other poo poo on there unless someone posts a neat thread or something that honestly would be better served as a blog post if people gave a poo poo about blogs in the 2020's. If you're seeing people talk about politics on social media, you're using social media wrong.
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Beartaco posted:Do you think the world will become marginally less stupid when facebook dies? The same dumb old people will stay on Facebook until they literally die, the same young people will use the videoclip app de jour, nerds will use forums and Reddit and the severely mentally ill and/or journalists will use Twitter and so it must and will be.
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Mega64 posted:Is there actually anything interesting on Facebook? if there is, it's impossible to find kinda like youtube. i mean, i watched this youtube video this morning that was insanely awesome and cool and it has six thousand views. out of everyone on the planet. six thousand lmao even spotify will often recommend you bands with very few listeners... their algorithm actually works. one of my favorite bands ever is this band that spotify just randomly rec'd me 6 years ago... a band that has i think 1000 monthly listeners and only put out one shoegaze album in 2010 and i've never heard of anywhere else
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Mac and Cheese posted:i was just looking into john carmack's role at facebook after the oculus acquisition and yeah it turns out he's neck deep in this meta stuff It’s sad but I guess he’s just chasing wherever the new developments are, and new developments come from people with a ton of money. He at least is negative about the idea of meta being a monopoly which ‘owns’ virtual space
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whatever the Facebook equivalent of weird Twitter is can be amusing, but the bizarre algorithmic content policies keep stamping out large groups most of the actually interesting stuff I've seen recently happens in smaller groups of people who've coalesced out of those bigger groups I just heavily curate my friends list and never ever talk about anything serious and also turn on adblock and don't use their loving app
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I don't necessarily hate Facebook, but I feel like it was better 10-15 years ago when it was basically a way to keep in touch with people, share photos, etc. Now, 1/2 my stream is advertising. However, if it disappeared tomorrow, I'd really only miss a few people's posts and a few of the niche groups I belong to where most of the people migrated to from dying forums. Oh, and Marketplace. It's users are typically much more level-headed than the typical Craigslist user. I've never been offered pitbulls or broken lawn equipment as payment on Marketplace.
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Beartaco posted:Do you think the world will become marginally less stupid when facebook dies? Yeah, until the next social media platform run by sociopaths replaces it.
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