run for president and you get them for free.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
why were you banned? because of the ads? xpost
the only time I have been flagged was for one name C4rey An4lytica. I just changed it to something else. I also have a completely corrupted account that everyone thinks belongs to a famous goalie and somehow his pics are in it. I swear I never put them there.
― Yerac, Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
how is tik-tok different from vine?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
a lot of stuff could be on both. tiktok usually longer videos, based on a lipsync app so much (most?) of the audio is dubbed from elsewhere, more earnest, hardly any of the wild stunt/fight/fail stuff that you'd see i.e. on worldstarhiphop. more dance moves. more transparently desperate ploys for likes and followers.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
I’m not entirely sure and Facebook weren’t going to offer an explanation. I might have been VPNed into japan at the time but I don’t think I was.
I also got banned from google ads as well this week for ‘payment violations’ from an entirely legit but new google apps account. I already had one kafkaesque experience trying to work out what went wrong there.
I’m just going to pay a mate with a marketing business to do this for me.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
It’s a good thing Ed is kept out of the PR business tbf. I’ve seen his hair
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
tbh the thing that ruined Facebook was letting people comment on your statuses
"Well, actually..."
honestly, it's also been good as I've found out when a few friends were in crisis a little easier and have been able to help as a result.
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:43 (four years ago) link
fb is grand
twitter is grand too
idk how ye do be using them. that may be the issue idk
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
i think the 'darraghmac' login has been compromised
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
darraghacked
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link
vg tb
well noted mookie but since i started using twitter i have carefully curated it to only see dublin bus updates and say horrible things about tottenham players
ppl who do otherwise may be seeing different results but complaining about that seems performative given the locus of control
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
Your mom's performative
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
gosh i rly just never know how to react to that tbh
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
'if spurs had twice the points they'd still not be in first'
follow me
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 January 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
ouch
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
It’s a good thing Ed is kept out of the PR business tbf. I’ve seen his hair― El Tomboto, Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:08 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― El Tomboto, Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:08 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Personal brand, mate.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 12 January 2020 07:58 (four years ago) link
I keep getting friend requests. It’s seriously freaking me out
― nathom, Sunday, 12 January 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
For all its evils, though, I do wonder whether it would help me stay better connected with IRL friends who I no longer see much (mostly because we're in our 40s and many of them have families). For instance, not knowing about events that friends have created or are attending means I undoubtedly miss opportunities to actually see people
Actually, yes, yes it would, speaking as a person in my 40s
I was at a party last night, and a friend who isn't really on FB asked about my job ... the one I got laid off from over a year ago, and posted about on FB ... he was unaware this had happened. It was mildly embarrassing for him.
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 January 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
It feels like Facebook is just so crap now that surely everyone will stop using it soon.But I thought the same thing five years ago and everyone still uses it.
― mirostones, Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
Facebook's global domination strategy would ensure their continued profitability, even if everyone in the USA stopped using it tomorrow.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
facebook seems a lot less ubiquitous when you just leave it and delete your account seriously folks, all your excuses for remaining are really lame. like it’s fucking facebook, gross, get outta there
― Clay, Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
that’s fine with me if they stay (barely) profitable, I just need them to stop being the #1 destination for my political donations, the #1 channel for disinformation actors, and most importantly, the default for its users to share their life events, to the exclusion of any other way of connecting with people
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
Xpost replace fb with ilx ;-)
― nathom, Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
that’s fine with me if they stay (barely) profitable
counterpoint: every Facebook executive should be jailed for 90 years for their deliberate program of sabotaging democracy and destroying journalism
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 13 January 2020 02:37 (four years ago) link
^
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 13 January 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Monday, 13 January 2020 06:15 (four years ago) link
― maura, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:29 (four years ago) link
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
😠
― imago, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:39 (four years ago) link
xp ^
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 13 January 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
My dad is holding out, refusing to engage w the internet at all and I respect his decision.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, January 11, 2020 8:09 AM bookmarkflaglink
It’s somewhat difficult to communicate w him but that’s the only real issue it has caused.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, January 11, 2020 8:10 AM bookmarkflaglink
the internet doesn't make dads easier to communicate with tbh
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 13 January 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
lol
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 13 January 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
lol true
i've only got the one and tbf it has never been easy
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 13 January 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
someone I'm "friends" with on Facebook, for his birthday, posted a form that lets people give him anonymous feedback
― lukas, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
"Stop posting"
"Did Antman crawl up Thanos's ass?"
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 April 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
In 2016, an internal report found that 64% of people who joined an extremist Facebook group found it through the company’s recommendation algorithms https://t.co/2XSFUiNST8 pic.twitter.com/RzY1eb4ni9— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 26, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
I got locked out of it over the weekend and found it very isolating not being able to see what friends are doing (even when all they were doing were posting pictures with no descriptions).
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
on the one hand, it's doing great things for BLM right now, because when the next protest is, what bail funds/other organizations are good to donate to, the latest news is hitting my feed and helping quite a bit.
on the other hand, literally everybody else is sharing a gif meme about your gif meme about their gif meme being a bad gif meme is in fact a bad gif meme....
...or being racist
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 June 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
the only person i know who ever mentions interacting w/ facebook is my mom
― Clay, Friday, 12 June 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
if you've seen these tweets...
Top-performing posts on Facebook today (link posts only, ranked by interactions, data from @crowdtangle) are from:1. Donald J. Trump2. Franklin Graham3. Fox News4. Fox News5. Ben Shapiro6. Ben Shapiro7. Ben Shapiro8. Blue Lives Matter9. Occupy Democrats10. Sean Hannity— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) June 16, 2020
interesting background...
—@CaseyNewton reports that @kevinroose's tweets showing the top content on Facebook — most often from right-wing pages — have "been driving people at Facebook absolutely crazy." https://t.co/FLc92TLKMV— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 22, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
the lack of effort on the latest Facebook interface is mind-boggling.
there are two big bugs I've discovered, and frankly that's probably a fraction as I don't spend as much time on there anymore.
1) when selecting your audience, there are random friends from your friends list who will not show up in a search when you do it on a computer. it will say "not found". when you pull FB up on your phone and edit the audience, those friends magically re-appear.
2) When doing a Feeling or Activity, the activities only have 4 choices on the computer. If you do it on your phone, you have about 4 times as many, including Listening, which I used to use the most.
3) I couldn't even change my profile picture the other day. It kept returning a 'try again later' message. Worked instantly on my phone.
on the plus side, this just makes me use it less.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 26 October 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
probably to encourage you to use it on your phone, which they can steal much more useful data from than a stationary computer?
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Monday, 26 October 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
probably, yea
― Neanderthal, Monday, 26 October 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
it's aight, I just use other ilxor's data anyway when I sign up for things
― Neanderthal, Monday, 26 October 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
was it in this thread that someone recommended unfollowing everybody for an empty feed? seems facebook broke that function recently
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
My account has been mothballed for about two years. I just went in to permanently delete and got given a bunch of 'options' to verify myself: call three friends and get a code from them or upload a passport photo. FFS.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
i've noticed a thing it sometimes does where the box i'm trying to write a comment into appears as a single line, so i can't see what i've written without hitting up or down
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
love how we're now just getting phantom notifications because one frequently-interacted with friend comments on another friend's post that you didn't even look at, really great way to reduce the signal-to-noise ratio there.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
think it happens mostly when they don't have anything else to show you, it's a "wait, come back!" manouevre.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
it's the same on twitter btw, seeing responses from ppl you follow to a tweet by someone you don't follow
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link