iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

not because it feels old but because it is weird and fun and full of surprises

Basically I'd rather feel in touch with a genuine cross section of people rather than letting my arbitrary click habits determine who Facebook thinks I care about

i do not envy people who didn't grow up with a strong divide between their public and private selves
it's one of the things i cherish most in life
the expectation that i would need to remove this barrier more than i do is so not gonna happen

― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:30 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Absolutely OTM. I also understand and appreciate, in the abstract, dog latin's point in favor of getting to see ILXors more as real people via FB interaction inasmuch as it's always been hard for me to get a sense of who most people are here. As people and not as goofy, abstract usernames. I don't feel like I've ever found a comfortable middle ground wrt online interactions.

Ned Raggett runs my FB timeline :(

"i do not envy people who didn't grow up with a strong divide between their public and private selves"

feel the opposite! (most of the time)

Ned Raggett runs my FB timeline :(

― 龜, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:46 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love ned of course but sometimes when he shares something I think, no way you care about that man

Am I the only one who feels like he'd like his fbook feed less, not more curated? That I'd much rather literally everything showed up on it?

― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thats the consensus amongst internet power users, everyone else has no idea their feed is being curated but prob likes it better

i hid ned a long time ago (sorry ned)

yeah you have to think fb has run the numbers on this, being that there are billions of dollars on the line

By "likes it better" do you mean "spends more time on it"

ya

tildes ruined the internet

― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, February 23, 2015 6:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't feel comfortable talking to my real life friends, the co-workers that have added me, a few relatives, my young people music friends, my old people music friends, internet friends, and rando acquaintances all at once. about anything.

OTM. normally everything is ok but occasionally i'll be commenting on something my sister is talking about and suddenly there will be an intrusion of people that my sister doesn't know, commenting/disagreeing/making the funnies and all that, and they don't realize that it's my sister i'm talking to rather than just another person. i guess the solution is to never talk to my sister via facebook or to create a family list and keep my posts to her restricted to that level of access, but...what a massive pain in the ass that is.

Ned runs my timeline as well, but I think that goes back to the curation by algorithm thing. Ned posts lots and lots of stuff that I don't necessarily click on, but I click enough things that Facebook knows that putting his posts at the top results in more clicks/$ from me.

I see a lot of Alfred blog posts in my timeline too

btw, you all realize you can sort the timeline so that it shows the posts in reverse chronological order, right? every few days it'll try to steer you back to the curated algorithm "top stories" mode but you can keep switching it back.

xp nakh-
no, but I am charmed by it, the borgean index especially. the cheerful aphorism-laced mish mash reminds me of early internet days in a few ways bc it also reminds me of my childhood home, chatting to my dad & skimming my parents books. not sure if the peculiar crossover between weightier scholarly subject matter and lighter internet-facilitated browsing goes wider than my own experience but it is a way of thinking + feeling that I hadn't thought about for a long time

― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 01:49 (16 hours ago)

yeah it's a wonderful site and that mode of discursive/aphoristic is something to be valued, seldom done so well or with that generosity of spirit and intellect though

that and scaruffi were my favourite personal sites as a teenager and i can't think of anything i've found since to compare to them

now even glenn mcd is working for the algorithm bots : (

btw, you all realize you can sort the timeline so that it shows the posts in reverse chronological order, right? every few days it'll try to steer you back to the curated algorithm "top stories" mode but you can keep switching it back.

Yes, but that is a gigantic pain. In order to follow everything, I need to be able to know where I was the last time. But what if the last time I was reading, I was on top stories, it's all a clusterfuck and confusing. Then I realize that I don't care enough about the content to bother.

Plus FB, still does some grouping out of order. For example in my current TL if I put it to most recent, it has a group of posts, Person X posted 7 updates, and then has a box with two of their updates in it, one 13 hours ago followed by one 7 hours ago.

what the internet needs is more threads about facebook and how shitty it is

hard hitting

what the internet kneads is artisanal bread dough, and the internet is posting about it on facebook.

what i need is your FPs

tildes ruined the internet

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good piece http://www.theawl.com/2015/02/the-facebook-proposition

Plus FB, still does some grouping out of order. For example in my current TL if I put it to most recent, it has a group of posts, Person X posted 7 updates, and then has a box with two of their updates in it, one 13 hours ago followed by one 7 hours ago.

This is likely because a post will get moved back to the top of yr feed if someone's recently commented on it or liked it. This is a neat method to make an old lol post or pic get reposted in peoples feeds btw (something I've seen Roxy and Hoos use to great lol effect and Ive done once or twice myself).

My "unfollow" list is almost bigger than my list of friends at this point, and in addition to this, I have a "locked down" list full of people that are excluded from seeing anything I post. All relatives bar a couple. Many ILXors. This one woman I know who *literally* compulsively clicks like on every single thing everyone posts, to the point it started to feel creepystalky. That One Guy everyone has who posts nothing but SAVE THE GAY LAND WHALES img macros with change.org petition links under it.

ima gay land whale and i vote

actually can we get a WhatsApp group going pls already

Viber or GTFO

wtf is that

I still have a silly-named snapchat account, can't wait until I am about to get sexy pics, am too lazy to set up a new one, and admit my account is g0thninja69

send nudes to weedhitlerdid911

viber is just a net-based version of SMS txting really, like whatsapp or skype.

saves money if you pay by the txt; bit pointless for me cos I get unlimited txts on my phone plan but it is also handy for group chats.

prob good for texting other non-contiguous countries

which is rly every country for aus I guess, unless you get free texts to New Zealand!

lol I dont kno anyone in NZ tbh

so many txting apps my lord everyone wants to txt

whatsapp only one ive fd with too much, its p good

iyo is twitter inherently corny? does it turn everyone corny?

twitter is good actually

you can tweet corporations

and it turns out that they are just fronts for young adults

http://i.imgur.com/R6w3ybU.png?1

ugh current worst tweeter always RTed into my feed

surpassing moscaddie

challops

In the dress controversy, the white and gold partisans are just lying to freak people out right? The dress is clearly blue and black.

keep that shit off ilx

idgaf about your rods and cones, keep that to fb

moscaddie quit

ya i discovered that when i was making that slanderous post cause i cldnt remember her name so i had to search twitter, did something scandalous happen or did she just get sick of being ppls feminist fortune cookie

an interesting cycle on twitter is like someone is good at twitter, gets popular, becomes bad at twitter due to the forces exerted by twitter popularity