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>A few years back it started showing me obvious political ragebait. I ignored it and then it started showing me pictures of women whose nipples were obviously s

by rnd0 2y ago

>A few years back it started showing me obvious political ragebait. I ignored it and then it started showing me pictures of women whose nipples were obviously showing through their clothing, which was an improvement, but still not the reason I signed up for Facebook. Same experience. Then, after ignoring that, I've started getting posts from mystery people who seem like they could be aquaintences (because hobbies) but aren't -an improvement, but still off the mark. I just want to go back to where you could use facebook to share what you're up to and see what other folks you know are up to; but apparently that's too 00's to hope for.

vineyardmike 2y ago
> I just want to go back to where you could use facebook to share what you're up to and see what other folks you know are up to; but apparently that's too 00's to hope for. But do folks you know post? I’m under the impression that the slop churned out for clicks are all that’s left.
- hunter2_ 2y ago
  The answer can be found by clicking Feeds > Friends [0] and it's an overwhelming "Yes, this is great! Wait, 90% is 'shared' from someone I don't know anyway, not written by my friend, so it's only a slight improvement." [0] https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr (this URL seems to work on a desktop browser only; use the menu items in other situations)
- rnd0 2y ago
  If they do, I'd probably be the last to know -because slop.
- Nursie 2y ago
  Over time, fewer and fewer of them post, and they post less and less. I post a lot less than I used to as well. At least in part this is because my feed is drowning in unwanted noise. Facebook's desparate attempts to wave stuff in my face 'for engagement' drive me away from posting more, so it becomes a vicious circle, driving down engagement, making people post less, round and round we go. Maybe I'm weird, but if my friends aren't posting much, that's OK, that's what I came here to check. Instead I'm assaulted by noise, quite a lot of it either scammy or offensive.
  - marcus_holmes 2y ago
    I also post less because anything I say seems to be immediately shown to the person most likely to be outraged by it. I used to use it like a daily "here's what I'm up to today" blog, because my friends and family would see that and it was a cool way of sharing my life with them. The, somewhere around 2014-ish, it was suddenly unsafe to post normal stuff without getting criticised. I had a whole series of arguments with folks about things that I or they had posted. I stopped posting as much, and started checking all my posts first, and deleting old ones. Then in 2017 I got a stalker who messaged all my friends and family with shit about me. I had to make my friends list private and unfriend a bunch of people (no great loss). It felt even more unsafe. Now I post travel pics and that's it. I miss the old safe space.
axus 2y ago
How about a choice for which social circle you'd like to view at one time. We could call it "Circles".
- jazzyjackson 2y ago
  that would be so wildly popular we could see a Diaspora
  - BobbyJo 2y ago
    Maybe it could have page customization features that let you upload html. Have it be a really custom space of your own.
    - paradox460 2y ago
      Could even start to resemble some sort of city
      - cheschire 2y ago
        You would need a ring of people to help navigate around it.
        jazzyjackson 2y ago
        At that point so much of our lives would start to be recorded digitally the internet could act as a kind of shared memory for the whole community
        paradox460 2y ago
        A living journal of some sort?
        HappMacDonald 2y ago
        pastebin
cruffle_duffle 2y ago
> I just want to go back to where you could use facebook to share what you're up to and see what other folks you know are up to; but apparently that's too 00's to hope for. And now they have some way for "AI" to write your entire FB post for you. Which I'm sure will end well. Why think for yourself and write what you mean when you can let AI do all the thinking for you?
- saalweachter 2y ago
  It frees you up to focus on the most important part of the experience: organic ad clicks.
strangattractor 2y ago
Maybe Zuck should apologize for that - he's quite good at groveling to Congress. He may also want to apologize to investors for totally shifting Meta's focus to VR despite it being clear that it is not as big as he claimed. But he likes being underestimated. https://www.yahoo.com/news/news/mark-zuckerberg-rather-underestimated-214300672.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/news/mark-zuckerberg-rather-under...

by rnd0 2y ago

vineyardmike 2y ago

> I just want to go back to where you could use facebook to share what you're up to and see what other folks you know are up to; but apparently that's too 00's to hope for. But do folks you know post? I’m under the impression that the slop churned out for clicks are all that’s left.

hunter2_ 2y ago
The answer can be found by clicking Feeds > Friends [0] and it's an overwhelming "Yes, this is great! Wait, 90% is 'shared' from someone I don't know anyway, not written by my friend, so it's only a slight improvement." [0] https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr (this URL seems to work on a desktop browser only; use the menu items in other situations)
rnd0 2y ago
If they do, I'd probably be the last to know -because slop.
Nursie 2y ago
Over time, fewer and fewer of them post, and they post less and less. I post a lot less than I used to as well. At least in part this is because my feed is drowning in unwanted noise. Facebook's desparate attempts to wave stuff in my face 'for engagement' drive me away from posting more, so it becomes a vicious circle, driving down engagement, making people post less, round and round we go. Maybe I'm weird, but if my friends aren't posting much, that's OK, that's what I came here to check. Instead I'm assaulted by noise, quite a lot of it either scammy or offensive.
- marcus_holmes 2y ago
  I also post less because anything I say seems to be immediately shown to the person most likely to be outraged by it. I used to use it like a daily "here's what I'm up to today" blog, because my friends and family would see that and it was a cool way of sharing my life with them. The, somewhere around 2014-ish, it was suddenly unsafe to post normal stuff without getting criticised. I had a whole series of arguments with folks about things that I or they had posted. I stopped posting as much, and started checking all my posts first, and deleting old ones. Then in 2017 I got a stalker who messaged all my friends and family with shit about me. I had to make my friends list private and unfriend a bunch of people (no great loss). It felt even more unsafe. Now I post travel pics and that's it. I miss the old safe space.

axus 2y ago

How about a choice for which social circle you'd like to view at one time. We could call it "Circles".

jazzyjackson 2y ago
that would be so wildly popular we could see a Diaspora
- BobbyJo 2y ago
  Maybe it could have page customization features that let you upload html. Have it be a really custom space of your own.
  - paradox460 2y ago
    Could even start to resemble some sort of city
    - cheschire 2y ago
      You would need a ring of people to help navigate around it.
      - jazzyjackson 2y ago
        At that point so much of our lives would start to be recorded digitally the internet could act as a kind of shared memory for the whole community
        paradox460 2y ago
        A living journal of some sort?
        HappMacDonald 2y ago
        pastebin

cruffle_duffle 2y ago

> I just want to go back to where you could use facebook to share what you're up to and see what other folks you know are up to; but apparently that's too 00's to hope for. And now they have some way for "AI" to write your entire FB post for you. Which I'm sure will end well. Why think for yourself and write what you mean when you can let AI do all the thinking for you?

saalweachter 2y ago
It frees you up to focus on the most important part of the experience: organic ad clicks.

strangattractor 2y ago

Maybe Zuck should apologize for that - he's quite good at groveling to Congress. He may also want to apologize to investors for totally shifting Meta's focus to VR despite it being clear that it is not as big as he claimed. But he likes being underestimated. https://www.yahoo.com/news/news/mark-zuckerberg-rather-underestimated-214300672.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/news/mark-zuckerberg-rather-under...