fun fact: no-one ever became a billionaire through scrupulously even-handed business practices
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
it's almost like amassing ungodly sums of money might be.. evil?
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
hmm, makes u think
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
> fun fact: no-one ever became a billionaire through scrupulously even-handed business practices
the minecraft guy?
― koogs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
they need to cut it out with the "your facebook memories" shit
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
every time i click the box that says "show me less things like this" and i still get these updates multiple times a week. sometimes it's nice to reflect on the past but it has to be on my own initiative. the past is full of traps--photos of exes, reminders that life is fleeting, whatever. who do they think they are?
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
facebook memories is actually my favourite bit (because facebook is worse than it used to be so past = better)
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
it's a form of torture
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
If I were that terrified of being reminded of my life I wouldn’t record it for posterity tbh
― gray say nah to me (wins), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
― Trϵϵship
this also applies to facebook as a whole, fyi
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
I was having a bad day a while back and Facebook was nice enough to show a post and pic of me and our dog the day before we put little Dottie to sleep : (
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
That's horrible. I live in fear of the day my RIP post for my cat shows up in FB memories - it got tons of engagements at the time so I think they'll definitley go for it.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 February 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
So happy I'm off fb. It's been 2 weeks now? Haven't missed it at all.
― nathom, Monday, 4 February 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
i don't think it filters 'memories' in any way, based on the four bits of absolute tosh it just gave me, none of which has a single like.
"is imagining he's playing tennis"
oh look, 6 years ago i was in kensington waiting for the comedy to start. i know this because i checked in from the pub next door. fascinating.
― koogs, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
congrats nathom!
i don't miss facebook but i do miss talking to most of my internet friends. they're good people but the opportunities for quality socialization on facebook just aren't there, i find it to be an addiction that ultimately does more harm than good. i need to find more friends i can hang out with in person, but the social anxiety makes it challenging...
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
ilx is the only good place on the internet
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
(in b4 inevitable 'and even ilx sucks' posts)
They don't show YouTube links in memories anymore, but I think that's the extent of the filtering (aside possibly from game/app posts).
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 February 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
Have deactivated FB and IG for a little more than a month now and it's been brilliant. Don't miss either.
Wish I could take myself off Twitter too but it's a job requirement, unfortunately.
― Roz, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:41 (five years ago) link
I have been off fb for a couple of weeks. It's liberating. I do miss some people but the downsides being on it are outweighing the former. Back on ilx which feels grebt. Just can't access my stevienixed account. Nathom will do. Lol
― nathom, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Well, you get the FB ilxors here too, so there’s that!
― suzy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
Yes! Missed you guys
― nathom, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
yay!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/facebooks-legacy-anger-depression-and-fake-news/
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
"You have two memories..."
but before that, here's a crappy video of pictures you've posted floating around that we put together because it is Friends' Day
and here's a 3 word post from 9 years ago (that one's probably on me)
and here's a crappy video of pictures you've posted that we've cobbled together for no other reason than it used to be January and now it isn't. Your January Highlights.
and here's a memory from two years ago yesterday that you might have missed (but didn't)
meanwhile those group posts you made to that group with 26 people in it, we're only going to show that to two of them, despite the fact that they all subscribed specifically.
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link
anyone got tips for getting rid of the phantom notifications? my total keeps creeping upwards, now it's at seven, none of which are real.
― Book Doula (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
can you describe these in more detail?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
you know, the little red dot with the number in it. When I'm logged out, it (incorrectly) says seven, when I log in there are zero. Totally nitpicky but it drives me crazy.
― Book Doula (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
do you use fb on both a phone and computer?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
yeah, and I think that's at the root of it. I don't see them on the phone, but I do on the computer.
― Book Doula (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
The Android app is rubbish tbh. Sometimes when these things appear on the Web page there are new likes or comments way down your list from days ago that it wants you to acknowledge. I've had maybe the odd genuinely phantom notification but it lasted for a day or so and I've never had them mount up
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
i often get notifications based on the last time i used facebook on the particular device. ... esp. message notifications ... as opposed to the last time i used facebook and looked at the notifications
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Logged in to FB after months away, immediately regretted it: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2164890463806836&id=100008577106113
― Roz, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
God, when I see this ol thread, I think how long ago. Then I see it's only 13 years!
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
Yeah I prob should have posted that to the “why do I hate that...” other FB thread but somehow always remember this one instead.
― Roz, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
what's the regrettable thing at that link?
― insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
not sure if you're asking about the content of the link or what's regrettable about it: it's a shitty conservative meme about "snowflakes".
if it's the latter, the reason i got off FB in the first place was so that I spend less mental space looking at terrible content, like shitty conservative memes about "snowflakes".
― Roz, Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
if that's the one I'm thinking of, yeah it's pretty bad
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
the former, as a non-facebooker I couldn’t see it
― insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
If you click on his profile all his other posts are about Catholicism and bacon. Not sure what I make of that.
― koogs, Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
all I want for Christmas is for the Facebook 'hide post' option to work.
ex-colleague uses it like Twitter and is forever posting crap memes and pictures of beer, things I don't mind seeing once, but given that the hide post option seems to do nothing, I have to scroll past them again and again.
― koogs, Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
Unfollow ex-colleague?
― nickn, Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:58 (four years ago) link
The local news feature in the iOS app is awful, just highlighting every petty crime so old people can panic some more.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 4 January 2020 05:49 (four years ago) link
un-following seems a bit drastic - some of it is interesting. it's just the drunken (?) chains of cat memes, the half-dozen pictures that he posts individually, or the French language stuff that annoys me. hide posts would be fine, if it worked.
(with the reposts you can hide all from the original poster and that seems to work. social fixer plugin has an alternative that works on desktop)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 January 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
I use the Snooze for 30 Days option for a couple of my friends.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Saturday, 4 January 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link
i have a number of people i snooze for 30 days because they post too much it's the best option imo bc at most i have to snooze them again, that's 1 click for 30 days of relief with no hurt feelings
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
I'd like a "hide stuff I don't wanna see" feature, but I guess AI isn't that far along yet.
― nickn, Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
Run back Facebook did today.They bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it, then when they got caught, they denied knowing anything about it.And what was that ad/story about?Their commitment to stopping disinformation.Incredible.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 9, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 January 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
every last detail of that is tasty
https://image.businessinsider.com/5e16189324fe122e47676b93?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp
https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/teenvogue-facebook-sponsored-c.html?utm_source=moreatbb&utm_medium=nextpost&utm_campaign=nextpostthumbnails
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
the 'hide for 30 days' i did has obviously worn off. ex-colleague (see above) posted 17 (seventeen!) things on the 3rd, including 4 reposts from "Cinema, mon amour" which is some kind of arthouse movie screenshot farm.
― koogs, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link