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Wasn't early Facebook all about connecting with friends and family and looking for boyfriend/girlfriend? Today I only hear something like "fake news, hate, raci

Wasn't early Facebook all about connecting with friends and family and looking for boyfriend/girlfriend? Today I only hear something like "fake news, hate, racism, violence" etc. I wonder what has changed? I think that it is not Facebook's management fault but the reality kicked in. Medium like Facebook is convenient for all type of content and interaction unlike Instagram for example which is more for showing off with photos and following other people's lives.

donatj 5y ago
I'm 90% sure it's when they started personalizing the feeds. You only see things the algorithm thinks you're going to like, but it has a very shallow idea of you as a human being limited to your outward expression. Then It pushes you further and further to the extremes of what it thinks you like. People were warning about filter bubbles even before Facebook did it.
- bckr 5y ago
  > People were warning about filter bubbles even before Facebook did it. Makes me think of "reality tunnels"[] written of long before Zuck made his website. [] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Reality_tunnel https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Reality_tunnel
sewercake 5y ago
There's a lot of 'political' content on instagram. do a quick google search for 'politigram' and you'll see what I'm talking about. That being said, there are definitely per-platform affordances that may change the degree and extent to which its expressed (and, crucially, to whom).
justbored123 5y ago
Well, I don't know how your friends and families are, but mine are quite racist and quite hateful of minorities and they were that way long before the internet. Facebook just shows that, it doesn't change it. I think that most people (specially white, heterosexual and not poor) were simply living in a bubble of ignorance thinking the world was a much better place that it actually is and social media simply popped that bubble and showed reality for everybody to see. And now they are angry at Social media in a classical shoot the messenger reaction.
mrfusion 5y ago
They didn’t get enough engagement with positive social interactions so they had to harness the worst parts of our psyche. Sounds eerily similar to this: > Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.

donatj 5y ago

I'm 90% sure it's when they started personalizing the feeds. You only see things the algorithm thinks you're going to like, but it has a very shallow idea of you as a human being limited to your outward expression. Then It pushes you further and further to the extremes of what it thinks you like. People were warning about filter bubbles even before Facebook did it.

bckr 5y ago
> People were warning about filter bubbles even before Facebook did it. Makes me think of "reality tunnels"[] written of long before Zuck made his website. [] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Reality_tunnel https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Reality_tunnel

sewercake 5y ago

There's a lot of 'political' content on instagram. do a quick google search for 'politigram' and you'll see what I'm talking about. That being said, there are definitely per-platform affordances that may change the degree and extent to which its expressed (and, crucially, to whom).

justbored123 5y ago

Well, I don't know how your friends and families are, but mine are quite racist and quite hateful of minorities and they were that way long before the internet. Facebook just shows that, it doesn't change it. I think that most people (specially white, heterosexual and not poor) were simply living in a bubble of ignorance thinking the world was a much better place that it actually is and social media simply popped that bubble and showed reality for everybody to see. And now they are angry at Social media in a classical shoot the messenger reaction.

mrfusion 5y ago

They didn’t get enough engagement with positive social interactions so they had to harness the worst parts of our psyche. Sounds eerily similar to this: > Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.