"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

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.

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

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

Logged in to FB after months away, immediately regretted it: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2164890463806836&id=100008577106113

God, when I see this ol thread, I think how long ago. Then I see it's only 13 years!

Yeah I prob should have posted that to the “why do I hate that...” other FB thread but somehow always remember this one instead.

what's the regrettable thing at that 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".

if that's the one I'm thinking of, yeah it's pretty bad

the former, as a non-facebooker I couldn’t see it

If you click on his profile all his other posts are about Catholicism and bacon. Not sure what I make of that.

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.

Unfollow ex-colleague?

The local news feature in the iOS app is awful, just highlighting every petty crime so old people can panic some more.

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)

I use the Snooze for 30 Days option for a couple of my friends.

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

I'd like a "hide stuff I don't wanna see" feature, but I guess AI isn't that far along yet.

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

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

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.

Yeah, I get movie bros posting shit from Cinema, Mon Amour too. Cringiest fucking name. Tru headz know we call it kino now anyway.

filter has expired again, 7 posts today. man united have done something, here's a picture of the rain, the daily mash has posted something funny, gammon watch has posted something funny, a news article about millennials...

Blocked by Facebook. Not following community standards. this is bogus.

it's asking for my phone number for 2fa. it's asking for a picture of me so it can check it's me (check against what though? - i've not uploaded any other photos of me)

"We have fewer people available to review information due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

This means we may be unable to review your account."

Australians are having fun today

https://www.theshovel.com.au/2020/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-dead-at-36-says-social-media-fact-check/

https://chaser.com.au/world/social-media-should-not-fact-check-posts-says-child-molester-mark-zuckerberg/

Seem to be a lot of companies that have decided to stop advertising on this site.

my company just warned us not to say controversial things if we say we work for them on our FB profile, or we can be disciplined.

this is why my job shows as "Fey Canoes", and why I don't use my Christian name on Twitter or anywhere else.

They've finally forced me into the new layout (on a laptop) and it's so horrible. I thought it couldn't get more ugly BUT IT DID

There was still a switch under options for me on Friday.

Does anyone know if it's possible to turn off the delightful feature of fb automatically popping up a message window whenever visiting a business page?

This has just started happening for me with the new layout.

I just went through and looked at a bunch of businesses that I have liked. Some of them have the message window pop-up and some don't, which makes me think maybe it's something on their end.

While I was going through though, I noticed a bunch of weird stuff that I didn't recognize in my likes. A movie called Scare Dares that seems to have never been released. A Disney Junior page, but not the one sanctioned by Disney. A link to a shady-looking external website titled "I can't believe a GIRL did this because of Justin Bieber - Website". In the case of the first two, clicking on the link brought up an error page that read "This Content Isn't Available Right Now. When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted." For the Bieber scam site, the message was "You Can't Go to This Link From Facebook. The link you tried to visit goes against our Community Standards." But as far as I can tell, I'm left with no way to unlike these things!

the new layout is awful.

I actually have taken a one week vacation from FB (using messenger only) and Jesus, why didn't I do this earlier. my mood has been so much better.

Now they're trying to beat Twitch I guess?

Continual failures and embarrassments like trying to turn Marketplace into an Amazon/Ebay alternative (but with useless search capabilities), creating an Instagram platform for TikTok people to port their content over including the TikTok watermarks, the different attempts to be a streaming video platform... and Zuck is still worth $30+ billion?!

FB now is kinda like if you built a shelf 15 years ago, and every so often, you kept making useless improvements to it to the point where now it doesn't even serve the original purpose of holding things up, and there are nails poking out, loose screws, and even a syringe or two lying around on it

Maybe if Zoomers start watching Among Us on there it will move away from being Boomer Jonestown.

> the half-dozen pictures that he posts individually

15 today. it snowed in paris.

I check Marketplace every few days hoping for the world’s cheapest Rhodes piano to fall into my lap.

I’ve started reporting obvious guns and ammo posts (“Freedom Seeds” with a picture of an ammo box) and not a single one has ever been taken down by Facebook.

Had someone genuinely ask me this a few months ago, to which I responded "hahaha I'm 30, bro."

xpost the bots are shit and the actual real person moderators are all alt-righters. explains why "men are trash" gets you a ban, but stuff like the above or transphobic posts don't.

I think even "shut up" triggers the bots

The only time Ive ever seen a FB post I reported get removed was one with a necrophila image in it.

But my bf and his friends podcast? It has a FB group and the members LOVE to swear at each other a lot, its sort of the aussie schtick (loads of "gimme a cake you cunt" and so on), and apparently lately loads of posts have been going into the censor bitbucket.

Friend of mine got a post from years ago removed which was just an Islamic State map with their projected territory - he'd posted it because it included Portugal and Spain, with the comment "I think those two were included for better football results?".

https://nextshark.com/girlfriend-hand-robot-japan-lonely/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgfObekV6JQ

Not what I was expecting based on the url.

Facebook: this other page has followed your page! would you like to follow it back?
Me: uh, can I look at it first?
Facebook:
Me: ok, fine, I'll search for it
(a hundred partial matches come up, none are the page I am looking for, I give up)

Just got a notification that Warner Bros. has released their claim on a live video I took in 2018 at the last local monthly Soul Night of people dancing to "Land of 1000 Dances".

I forgot I even shot it.

So the morning after a whistleblower releases a trove of documents that reaffirm that Facebook is evil, the site and its other sites all go down?

mmmmmm say that again