iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

Facebook made me more social as I was less afraid to throw parties with the Event feature and got invited out more.

Therefore FB sucks. I miss being reclusive

The only thing I still like about FB is when everyone says happy birthday to me as if I'm insanely popular for one day a year and of course FB chooses TODAY to have a massive outage thanks FB! >:|

I hardly see anything from friends or family anymore, no one posts or I just skip it, but I follow a lot of news/local businesses/mags etc. I dunno, it’s 5 mins a day, whatever. Obv it’s not a place for relationships, it’s the internet

dang

NEW COVER: One year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook really cares. Then why is there an endless cycle of fury and apology? https://t.co/ncft3UCgZq pic.twitter.com/iI4DuNT1Ic

— Businessweek (@BW) March 14, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1sx1rIWsAIbKMU.jpg:large

feed me fish pic.twitter.com/SVHAFEAz8j

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that code is just asking for a null pointer exception

https://i.imgur.com/u9m74bj.png

RIP Barry Zuckercorn

wait, what's that about the fonz?

Complete and total fabrication.

also not a trump supporter

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/henry-winkler-death/

scarymommy.com

so one of the most viral facebook stories of 2019 has been an out and out lie?

why yes, i do think facebook is bad

More than one.

tmz comes out of this smelling like a rose - why, yes, luke perry is absolutely, indisputably dead!

tmz is gross but they’re pretty good about the declaring people dead thing

it's extremely frustrating for me because it seemed whenever i used to point out blatant falsehoods my friends posted on facebook i would get accused of perpetuating the lugenpresse narrative. well, i guess i am!

Facebook admits it stored ‘hundreds of millions’ of account passwords in plaintext

surely this will be the moment people stop using facebook

...

So glad I'm not on fb anymore. Just said goodbye to a relative (died in accident). Don't want to open fb in 2 yrs time and have pics pop up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/27/facebook-says-it-will-now-block-white-nationalist-white-separatist-posts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.25bf8471bbfd

Oh, finally?

Posted the amazing still of Damian Lillard after his long 3 tonight and Facebook auto-tagged a friend... who looks nothing like Lillard, aside from being black.

what could go wrong

Facebook just announced a new feature called Secret Crush that will allow Facebook Dating users to select up to 9 friends to express interest in. It's similar to matching on Tinder or Bumble, except you get to pick specific friends you want to date https://t.co/VwNMzHpbQv

— WIRED (@WIRED) April 30, 2019

new words with friends game mode - play against romantic rivals who have expressed interest in the same person as you! whoever loses must withdraw their secret crush pick

i quit facebook in january 2018 and it was the one good decision i made that month

This is like forcing people to have tinder accounts

Fucked up.

Wait i misunderstood—you have to have “facebook dating” to get a crush notification

Wtf is Facebook dating???

idk. apparently it hasn't been rolled out in america yet.

online dating is the worst. i'd rather be placed in a vat of boiling acid than ever do it again. and it's so invasive. i deleted my hinge profile and disabled it but i still get emails saying people "liked" me wtf.

Online dating is already the worst, so it makes sense that a data broker would offer it, too.

I cannot imagine fb lasting another ten years tbh. These are desperate measures to earn a buck.

otm except read “juice MAUs” for “earn a buck”

i deleted my Flange account and started a Minge account

but i still get emails saying people "liked" me wtf.

stop bragging already

Xpost GaruGBook

did somebody say "desperate measures to earn a buck"?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/report-facebook-looking-to-disrupt-credit-cards-with-cryptocurrency/

love to get fined $5 billion and see your shares go up

what I really don't like is even responding to invites cos then my mom later that day is like "oh, I see you're going to xxx" and it's like, "no, mom, I just marked Interested, which means maybe", but also I can't figure out how to set privacy for responses to events. like I can see in my Activity Log that it's "custom" but it seems like it just lets everybody that is on my settings for "future post" privacy see it, which....I don't want.

fuck Facebook I hope it dies of diarrhea

Just quit dude. That's how it dies.

^^^^^

yeah i deleted my account ~2 years ago and i just never even think about it anymore

i would except, this is now the sole method in which anybody invites anybody to any events anymore and theatrical/musical productions I'm a part of insist on using FB groups as the way that it communicates rehearsal schedules.

also lol it isn't gonna die, it's like McDonald's fries, everybody knows it's killing them but they keep eating.

people DID stop smokign cigarettes though.

remember that. things can change.

to follow in tobackey's downfall, that'll require some government restrictions on Facebook

for one weird section your username appeared to me as treeLamp and I got really confused

second. jesus what the fuck

For the last few years I only go on it to make one weekly post about a weekly event I do and ignore it the other 99.8% of the week and I feel so much happier and healthier as a result, but I also feel a little guilty sometimes that I’m still perpetuating its use as an event/promotion tool, which I hear ppl say is the only reason they stay on it (myself included). Facebook should die fully, but I guess if it just gradually turned into an event invite tool like meetup.com or something that would at least be marginally better for society than dominant news source/communication tool/social space

it also occasionally helps me learn which people I know are secretly bags of shit, so, there's that.

I was at the company Christmas party last night and this morning I had a notification that there was a photo that I might be in. It was a photo of a group I wasn’t in, but I was in the picture somewhere in the background, my face partially obscured. Somehow it figured out this was me, despite the fact that I don’t know any of these people and we don’t have any mutual friends. I am guessing this is location based somehow but thats uh...kinda scary.