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Mine is still active but I don't know why I bother. I keep in touch with my close family/friends via fb messenger a lot but you can use fb messenger without having an actual page. I barely ever talk to any of my other actual friends on there because I'm an anti social piece of poo poo
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I thought about it some more, and one thing I didn't mention was the amount of suggested pages on "living off the grid" and "abandoned places" that were also being shoved at me. Also, I thought about what Google knows about me. Over the last 6 years or so Facebook would have seen my usage drop off to almost nothing, and they would have been getting less and less information about me from other sources. Assuming they get some info from Google, and that I tend to be logged in to my Google account while reading Google News daily, they would see that I read tech news, more and more of which I've noticed are from or about India, which I do click through on sometimes. So I think Facebook might have surmised I'm a tech-minded prepper who doesn't interact with people anymore and is probably becoming a paranoid hermit, so is serving me suggestions based off that. Some of the horny AI stuff might well be influenced by this, and the "big nipples, big life" comments made me consider the tech news thing as a possible influence. In light of this I'd say this particular enshittification at least makes a little more sense. I was just taken aback last night by what looked like a flood of it since I hadn't logged into my account in months. It's possible it's been going on longer and I just didn't notice, because the Facebook feed has been useless for so long that I wasn't in the habit of scrolling down from the landing page, and maybe last night the crap was just floating closer to the surface than usual.
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kntfkr posted:Anyone who still has facebook should feel ashamed.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I have everything so walled off they know next to nothing about me. Facebook runs in a Firefox container, I run scriptblocking everywhere, and have never allowed Facebook on any of my phones. I also have a second Facebook account for reasons, and when I checked it is largely the same except more panty shots and NFL cheerleaders labeled as "show girls" for some reason. All that effort and it’s worse than if you let it just track you lol
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Jan 15, 2024 01:30
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Why does Facebook still exist? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Haschel Cedricson posted:It got worse once they allowed people to sign up without a .edu email.
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During Covid I tried to sign up for Facebook for the first time. Did all the stuff it asked me and upon signing up I immediately got a message I was suspended for TOS violations in an instant. The Facebook algorithm is so good that it could tell that I wasn't meant for Facebook and kicked me off before I could even fully log in.
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011424 posted:Why does Facebook still exist? wtf is going on with these number accounts i keep seeing probated? I swear this is like the third one I've seen in as many days.
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Lt. Cock posted:wtf is going on with these number accounts i keep seeing probated? I swear this is like the third one I've seen in as many days. It's just some insane rereg guy, he's made at least 100 of these in a few months.
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Lt. Cock posted:wtf is going on with these number accounts i keep seeing probated? I swear this is like the third one I've seen in as many days. it's a crazy person that can't take a hint
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bradzilla posted:it's a crazy person that can't take a hint that is a human being and perhaps they deserve to be treated with some dignity 
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Dick Fontaine posted:that is a human being and perhaps they deserve to be treated with some dignity It was Dick Fontaine all along.
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But why give yourself away with such an obvious username? I just checked the leper's colony and it's always a six digit number
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Lt. Cock posted:But why give yourself away with such an obvious username? I just checked the leper's colony and it's always a six digit number It's the date, EIU registers so many accounts that he ran out of names
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They also randomly participate for real instead of making GBS threads up a thread and if they'd just make a new account and  nobody would bat an eye.But I don't have $1000 to shitpost every month so what do I know.
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Lt. Cock posted:But why give yourself away with such an obvious username? I just checked the leper's colony and it's always a six digit number Seems pretty irrational doesn't it
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FWIW I think its the "Many posters did not want or like me posting" or whatever fella
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Yeah, the numbers are a rereg, and let's kindly not continue the discussion - giving him any sort of attention is probably counterproductive.
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Slugworth posted:Facebook is unironically useful for hobby groups. I collect fossil shark teeth, and there are active groups where you can post alongside paleontologists and what not. All the old forums for the hobby are dead. This is true. I found the astronomy / telescope related groups very useful for quick information and help. I've been doing it for awhile and now I'm admin of two of the groups and a mod of two others. Being a Facebook admin/mod of a group of 5,000 to 20,000 members is like being a god drat cop. Facebook is just a non-stop parade of spammers and scammers. We're getting pretty good at detecting the bullshit classified posts that use photos stolen from eBay, reddit and elsewhere. I still don't know why there's all the random Tik-tok like video spam posts, but I ban those fools on sight. Then there's the poor man's porn spam - don't even bother reporting it to FB because like anything else FB doesn't really give a poo poo. Just ban those folks too. I'm guessing FB has given up and just lets the group admins/mods handle everything. However, FB will get you for something you've posted 10 loving years ago. Posted a Photoshop Friday pic from here - the famous Kent State shooting pic combined with Twister the game. 10 years later - too graphic for FB! Gotta be hidden! And then the loving ads...so many are just loving scam after scam. There's no such thing as discounted USPS Forever stamps - not a thing. Counterfeit stamps yes. USPS Postal Inspectors need to beat some heads at FB. Oprah and the fucks of Shark Tank are selling weight loss supplements. Home Depot isn't sell a $1000 item for $1. Just bullshit. FTC needs to shut that poo poo down hard. Anywhoo...FB is how I keep in touch with friends, family, old co-workers and chit-chat about astronomy when it's cloudy at night. One thing that would go a long way to get rid of all the poo poo on FB - a pay wall. Maybe just $10 per year. Probably all it would take to get rid of a lot of crap.
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Yeah, overall FB moderation is worse than a joke. My already light use of it nosedived around 2020, for several reasons. They made a public statement assuring everyone that they were going to crack down on vaccine misinformation, but I'd file reports about it and the follow-through was less than 50%. Like, obvious misinformation just allowed to keep chugging along unabated. That was around the time I really saw the Dockers Nazi bias, too. Anything that got reported that could possibly offend a straight white American male was clamped down on hard, but propaganda and misinformation was drat-near untouchable. I joined several iterations of a group called "Are the straights okay?" which was just funny memes and not mean-spirited in the least, but it kept getting nuked presumably because the Dockers Nazis got their feelings hurt.
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FB thinks I'm a black man with a dog which is weird. I use it for hobby groups and that's it. The time I spend looking at the feed has gone down from a few minutes to about 10 seconds it's so full of garbage and 'suggested posts' from groups that are 99% bots.
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Yeah, FB decided that it perfectly OK for some rando to harass me over my gender identity but that I broke the rules when I replied to them with a photo of a Nazi war criminal awaiting execution. 
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Op, at the risk of also being branded as a degenerate boomer perv, I've had the same experience. I almost never use FB but have had to check it for some random reason. My suggested posts are a mix of "[local city] nostalgia" (which is occasionally interesting historical photos) and just creepy and frequently AI generated sleaze. Instead of flight crews mine tends towards women in sports and random celebrities (someone mentioned Avril Lavigne, which stuck in my mind as a strange reoccurrence). The best part is that I keep clicking "stop showing me this" and it doesn't seem to make a lasting difference. It's like the algorithm has run out of relevant content and keeps defaulting to what I assume is content aimed at their theoretical low brow condumer. So yeah, the feed is trash!
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Are you using it in a mobile browser? Switch to desktop mode, hit the same button, it will work at least while you’re in desktop mode and ideally for awhile in mobile mode
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There is at least one group for fun photos of birds doing dumb things which has been completely swamped with AI-generated rubbish. I guess it's a sort of self-reinforcing loop where people with no interest in AI goop stop posting, and those that find it thrilling and fun keep encouraging it. An interesting sort-of-related effect in the world of bird photography is people "adjusting" or "colour balancing" their photos to the point where they cease to resemble any actual species. Guys, if you've made an Australian magpie look anything other than solely black and white, there's some egregious photoshoppery going on. Stop upvoting the peacock corvids. It's kinda pretty but it's not real. Surely that matters, right?
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Tree Bucket posted:There is at least one group for fun photos of birds doing dumb things which has been completely swamped with AI-generated rubbish. I guess it's a sort of self-reinforcing loop where people with no interest in AI goop stop posting, and those that find it thrilling and fun keep encouraging it. Hobbies, support groups, and special interests like that are the few areas where Facebook really does serve a purpose. I'm in a bird group but it is private and highly moderated, and I'm sure what you're describing would be clamped down on fast. Or at least I hope it would be  - I haven't checked it in months since I just stopped logging into Facebook without some reason to.Edit: I just checked and my bird group still appears fine, but it is also fairly small - fewer than 5000 members. CaptainSarcastic fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Tree Bucket posted:There is at least one group for fun photos of birds doing dumb things which has been completely swamped with AI-generated rubbish. I guess it's a sort of self-reinforcing loop where people with no interest in AI goop stop posting, and those that find it thrilling and fun keep encouraging it. There was an avian schism and your bird orthodoxy is passé.
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I joined the Miller High Life Lovers facebook group because it looks funny, and it totally is. Tons of dudes just posting themself in a bar with a miller being like "Guys, this is the coldest Miller High Life I've ever had. Life is great and I'm feeling great!" and a bunch of beers sitting in the snow being like "Keeping em cold and living the high life!" These guys are happier than I will ever be.
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I remember a few years ago FB started showing me ads for very expensive looking tractors and other large scale industrial farm equipment. Only ever lived in the city and I have never searched for or had any sort of interest what so ever in farming, or farming equipment, hell not even gardening, so no idea where that came from. It was during a massive drought in Australia when I doubt farmers were buying that sort of stuff, so maybe they were just showing that to everyone here in the vain hope that a few people drunk enough would see it and accidentally buy a $250K tractor with plowing attachments.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I joined the Miller High Life Lovers facebook group because it looks funny, and it totally is. Tons of dudes just posting themself in a bar with a miller being like "Guys, this is the coldest Miller High Life I've ever had. Life is great and I'm feeling great!" and a bunch of beers sitting in the snow being like "Keeping em cold and living the high life!" These guys are happier than I will ever be. Lol that sounds awesome I want to join that group I like the electronics and soldering groups I'm in, they're heavily moderated, don't tolerate hate/misogyny/etc., there's not really a lot of AI horseshit to deal with and you can actually commiserate with people about having to fix 0201 resistors edit: I did join that group and it's fuckin awesome MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Facebook has figured out my house is full of mould and is aggressively reminding me to do something about it, which I suppose is a helpful form of targeted advertising
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Thesaurus posted:Op, at the risk of also being branded as a degenerate boomer perv, I've had the same experience. I almost never use FB but have had to check it for some random reason. My suggested posts are a mix of "[local city] nostalgia" (which is occasionally interesting historical photos) and just creepy and frequently AI generated sleaze. Instead of flight crews mine tends towards women in sports and random celebrities (someone mentioned Avril Lavigne, which stuck in my mind as a strange reoccurrence). Thanks for confirming I'm not the only one getting this crap flung at them. It does seem like the less they know about you the worse the content they try to serve you gets. At this point I'm only going to ever open Facebook in a private window to further starve them of information and occasionally check in to see how bad it will get. 
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The only reason I still have an fb account is for managing couple of band pages, liking my gf's posts about knitting socks and messenger. Last year I got permanently blocked from paying for ads (only way to get anyone to see your posts on a band page, otherwise its just 2% of your followers). Still no idea why, cant give fb money even if I wanted to lmao & lol.
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More than anything, I just use Facebook to track events in town. You know what's weird? You go to the website, you can have it show you events for TODAY. or TOMORROW. Very handy. On the app, you can't. You can't even set the date range! You can just set distance and some other things, and you can't even sort it by date. So it just shows you 100 events, MOST of which in the first few rows are happening today or tomorrow but maybe 60 events down there's an event happening tonight I really wish I'd seen.
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First time in a while I've looked at facebook. Lot of history themed stuff in my feed. Some genuine looking local history stuff, some poo poo right-wing memes (social media has ruined roman history for me), some weird fake-looking stuff that I'm not going to click on for fear of polluting the timeline. And a lot of Farside cartoons. That's enough facebook for 2024.
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They throw anything and everything at me. Some of it is birds, old wrestling, football, and video game clips. That I know because I'll even watch those when I'm bored and just scrolling. But then there's other stuff that I don't know where it came from. Animal "rescues", plays, comic books, old celebrity pics. Some of this is crap I never look up or even actively dislike. Someone mentioned far side comics I've been seeing those too. I think some of this crap they must pay the company extra and show it to everyone not just algorithm. Something about it all is depressing and demoralizing even with the stuff I like in there and why I don't really use the site.
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Tree Bucket posted:There is at least one group for fun photos of birds doing dumb things which has been completely swamped with AI-generated rubbish. I guess it's a sort of self-reinforcing loop where people with no interest in AI goop stop posting, and those that find it thrilling and fun keep encouraging it. The Man is preparing us for a future where all the birds are gone except for some Electric Sheep bullshit (for only $8.99 a month!)
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The few times I've logged into Facebook for messenger I've noticed a lot of this, but I always assumed that it's because 99% of my friends have fled and the algorithm knows it's not supposed to just fill my feed with a dude I knew two cities ago.
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