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My word, I remember years back when I didn't realise that this was a thing, and it took my mate showing me his feed filled with me liking a whole load of random

My word, I remember years back when I didn't realise that this was a thing, and it took my mate showing me his feed filled with me liking a whole load of random sexy filth pages. I remember commenting wondering if my mum could see all the shit I'd liked, to which she responded "yep.". Absolutely mortified mate.

ben_w 7y ago
That is exactly why I ended up leaving Twitter. As soon as Twitter started showing me everything my friend marked with a “like” (Favourite? Star?), I started seeing explicit examples of my friends’ kinks.
- Cyph0n 7y ago
  Rule 1 of social networks: use a different account for NSFW content.
  - pjc50 7y ago
    .. which doesn't help unless you tell all your friends to do that as well, and unfollow those that don't. (I've managed to kill the bringing of other's likes into my feed somehow, which keeps it usable)
aklemm 7y ago
Who did you think the likes were being shown to?
- mckeed 7y ago
  The poster. It used to be that shares/retweets were used to put a post on your friends feed and likes were used to express support/appreciation to the poster/creator. Twitter always had the problem where faves (now likes) were public but people didn't always realize – they were used as a combo of bookmarks and upvotes. But even then, there was a difference between having your likes viewable on your profile and when they started randomly showing your likes on followers' feeds.
nostromo 7y ago
For a long time you could see a friends like history on Instagram. When you told friends that, a fair number of them would look like, “oh fuck.”