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I’m not looking for Facebook to be great, just useful enough. And I reckon I’ve got it doing that by only following people and groups that serve my interests a
by TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
I’m not looking for Facebook to be great, just useful enough.
And I reckon I’ve got it doing that by only following people and groups that serve my interests and don’t rile me.
That means I generally tried to avoid what my individual friends have to say, as it’s mostly the usual things which aren’t really worth engaging with.
- perl4ever 6y agoI find it almost unbearable the way it selects the worst of what everyone posts. I know, it's easy to blame the person and not the algorithm. But I think people underestimate how much manipulating context can warp perceptions and how vulnerable anyone who posts a fair amount is. I get to feeling almost persecuted and then I look at someone's posts in context chronologically and it seems quite normal. Just by selecting a small fraction of posts, there is an illusion of a personality that doesn't exist. Context matters so much. It's not humanly possible to overcome the effect of what you don't see other than by challenging it, going out and looking for a more representative sample.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoYeah, look, I mean, I only follow groups like specific model vehicle owners group for my local state / country and say, in my own context as an example, permaculture and mushroom identification groups, which are usually well moderate to exclude poor behaviour / encourage good behaviour. Having said that, I do see how the most divisive posts and comments get more attention. And fuck Facebook and everyone one of the individuals who work there and enable that.