iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im_SpOdacVY&t=67s

uh never mind. those aren't showing up? whatever.

or people who post things like "you really fucked up this time. i don't know if i can forgive you after last night. pray for me, friends." and then wait for people to ask about what went wrong

OMG I used to have a few people on my feed that'd pull that shit, but if you dared to ask what the issue was, they'd say 'oh i dont really want to talk about it here' or 'its private'. FFS, you just bleated about it on FB!

OR, no one replies at all because frankly we're all sick of their shit and then they have a sook that no one gives a shit about them.

and just like that! the facebook friend most likely to post in the manner described above has posted a link to sarahah
:( people

Zuckerberg is 4 days late, can't say "Trump" or mention Facebook's role in targeting/amplifying hate. He can't run if he's this compromised pic.twitter.com/vGHG08Y3yJ

— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) August 16, 2017

run? zuck for what?

1500m world champion

LL, are you not aware of the speculation on why Zuckerberg has been doing this weird cross-country tour to small town america? surely he's running for president

not sure I buy that argument, but I would guess it has crossed his mind

he'd be better off starting his own reality show

that's the route to president, I guess

mid-20s to early 30s, most of the abusive comments reported tho came from people in mid-20s

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LL, are you not aware of the speculation on why Zuckerberg has been doing this weird cross-country tour to small town america? surely he's running for president
no this is the first i've heard of his weird cross country tour. now i know!

It's not a "weird" tour. When I was young every summer my family would drive all over the country, trying to hit as many states as possible. Then again I did grow up to become President.

you didn't do so as a public figure! dude has 95 million facebook 'followers'

if I post a little bloggy-style thing on facebook with my road trip through the american west it's not nearly as performative

the bad thing is I had to search for Zuck's fb profile to get that number and figured out I have one friend in common with him

and hilariously, it's not the one who used to work at fb

I keep feeling like social media is bad for my anxiety cos i measure my feelings against other people's when things happen and i always feel mine is wrong

Largely cos i am always detached and then i cry later at a kids movie

the less close social interaction (dating or committed relationship, living in a home or apartment with other people) I have, the more likely I am to tear up at a kids movie

I think it's normal, you have to have some base level of social interaction or third-party, even fictional, situations will surface that emotional capital you're not spending

Yeah that's true. Living alone has increased that - i still get out a lot but i only talk to invisible co-workers most of my day

It's not a "weird" tour.

http://i.imgur.com/ABZS4pL.png

c'mon Karl everyone finds that truck stop entertaining

and whom amongst us has not asked a friendly trucker for a truck ride and some time sitting in the cab of their truck, as we pose for pictures

zuck is the worst

i would probably have a lot more facebook followers if i interviewed several people in every town i visited

do you suppose he's a big tipper or

I feel like he thinks this tipping problem is something he can help solve with tech

help solve disrupt

Haha it would be amazing if he

Argh zing

It would be amazing if he was travelling all over the country, performatively not tipping people.

Oh I thought zuck had disrupted yr post lol

I'm fighting back

if I post a little bloggy-style thing on facebook with my road trip through the american west it's not nearly as performative
yeah no shit
a person who writes this many words about their personal vacation has some kind of ulterior motive for sharing the information, even if the motive is "i want people to appreciate my writing skills and jokes"

totally going to take a selfie at the I-80 truck stop in a couple weeks though

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKMqVnxWkAUweFu.jpg:small

fails were made

the nazis are so not made of win smh lol

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-used-an-i-will-rape-you-image-to-invite-users-1818638390

UGH the new messenger thing where it doesn't let you not want to turn on notifications

One of the oddest things about facebook to me, and something I don't hear discussed a lot, is the voyeurism of it. It's so easy to just randomly wander through someone's profile, even a complete stranger. I find myself thoughtlessly doing this sometimes when reading comments on a public article -- a certain comment seems smart, or stupid, or whatever, and you click to see the face of the person who made it, and depending on their settings you find yourself just browsing random stuff -- their truck, their dog, their kids, whatever, trying to guess what state it is, cool tattoo, oh, they waterski, etc., they're liberal, they're left, they're right-wing, etc. Sometimes I come up with little stories in my head about what's going on in the people's lives, what their personalities are like, I see a picture of them with friends at a bar and I start to imagine the scene playing out at the bar, etc. I guess this sounds a little bit creepy but it's just this mindless thing I do, never actually returning again to the same person's profile or even giving them another thought in most cases.

most cases

TBC I don't ever actually go back to the person's profile, but once or twice I have just had these fictionalized facebook characters pop into my head.

sure sure

Those are all fake profiles u know that right

it matters not

one of my favorite twitter accounts' whole shtick is basically this

michael hudson's?

that easy voyeurism is not at all unique to fb although it certainly enabled it more than any other site

ya xp

https://i.imgur.com/Yduyk3k.jpg

when irl is more satirical than any parody

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/09/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-puerto-rico-virtual-reality

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia?CMP=share_btn_fb

publishers were paying george takei one cent per page view to post their stories on facebook (earning him $10k for a really popular one)

https://theoutline.com/post/2491/when-publishers-get-paid-for-promoting-narratives-george-takei-influencers

just signed up to this thing after an ~8 year absence, for one specific purpose only. took 90 seconds to make the account and almost an hour to lock it down. the surprising thing isn't how glib it is about users' privacy but how pig-headedly it takes its users for granted, e.g. the iphone app doesn't ask you if you'd like to share your contacts, it just throws up a shitty "facebook needs to muckrake your entire address book and piss it all over the internet (ok) (maybe later)" which i presume it will throw up every single time i go near this bloody app.