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> I had an interesting case with Instagram where after viewing enough pictures of women's butts it started also showing men's bare butts in my feed too.. at lea

by ohyes 10y ago

> I had an interesting case with Instagram where after viewing enough pictures of women's butts it started also showing men's bare butts in my feed too.. at least until I never opened any of them, and they disappeared. This truly is technology run amok. "Welcome to buttstagram, for your butt viewing pleasure." When I think about this situation it makes me want to stay entirely away from social media and off the internet. Yet it's ubiquity in our lives makes it difficult to be integrated and participant in society without the technology. And a lot of the features really do disappear when you remain entirely anonymous (via tor, incognito, not having accounts etc).

kchoudhu 10y ago
Wait, what's cloudstagram?
- forkerenok 10y ago
  That's a very subtle joke :) (Those in the dark search for cloud2butt browser plugin)
  - Fedex 10y ago
    That is my favorite extension. It subtly brightens my day when I come across one of its gems.
13of40 10y ago
I had a similar thing happen a year or two ago: At some point in the past I shut down my Facebook page, but a year later I created a new minimalistic one so I could stay in touch with my family. I posted a picture of a Vespa scooter I'd been restoring in the garage, and suddenly my suggested friends list started overflowing with guys in Indonesian scooter gangs and young asian ladies in head scarfs. (I friended one guy and we exchange "likes" every once in a while but even google translate doesn't understand 3/4 of what he says.)
a3n 10y ago
> Yet it's ubiquity in our lives makes it difficult to be integrated and participant in society without the technology. Or: Yet the ubiquity in our lives of Stuff that was never built for us (pretty sure I never gave the billionaires at FB and Goog as much as a single dollar), but merely to lure us, makes it difficult to be integrated with and unwittingly enabling that Stuff without installing and using that Stuff.

by ohyes 10y ago

kchoudhu 10y ago

Wait, what's cloudstagram?

forkerenok 10y ago
That's a very subtle joke :) (Those in the dark search for cloud2butt browser plugin)
- Fedex 10y ago
  That is my favorite extension. It subtly brightens my day when I come across one of its gems.

13of40 10y ago

I had a similar thing happen a year or two ago: At some point in the past I shut down my Facebook page, but a year later I created a new minimalistic one so I could stay in touch with my family. I posted a picture of a Vespa scooter I'd been restoring in the garage, and suddenly my suggested friends list started overflowing with guys in Indonesian scooter gangs and young asian ladies in head scarfs. (I friended one guy and we exchange "likes" every once in a while but even google translate doesn't understand 3/4 of what he says.)

a3n 10y ago

> Yet it's ubiquity in our lives makes it difficult to be integrated and participant in society without the technology. Or: Yet the ubiquity in our lives of Stuff that was never built for us (pretty sure I never gave the billionaires at FB and Goog as much as a single dollar), but merely to lure us, makes it difficult to be integrated with and unwittingly enabling that Stuff without installing and using that Stuff.