iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

I deleted the app but have hung on thru the mobile web interface. Has that gotten uniquely terrible for anybody else this week, where it logs you out after like 30 mins?

i think u should consider that a feature

March break, so my wall is dominated by vacation photos posted by people I work with. I know, I know--there are ways around this, no one is forcing me to look at them.

That aside, isn't one of the oldest jokes in movies/TV the bit where one couple is over at another couple's house for dinner, and afterwards they're forced to watch three carousels of mind-numbing vacation slides? The basic premise hasn't changed, even if the technology has and you now have the freedom to leave: of what interest is this to me? Or to paraphrase Seinfeld: I'm happy your happy--frankly, it doesn't do a thing for me.

yes i have had the same thought: it's exactly the same. i try to remember that when i want to show people pictures of things on my phone. they don't care.

no, people want to see photos of cats that I have on my phone

Ok that’s true but otherwise point is otm

sometimes they might want to see the photo on your phone, if the thing you are showing them is novel enough or interesting to that person specifically. by itself, a photo of a family on vacation or the place where they vacationed does not rate as noteworthy (imo) but maybe someone who is related to you would enjoy seeing it. i think it's a matter of knowing your audience.

no, people want to see photos of cats that I have on my phone

― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 3:32 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do

I am only interested in seeing pics on ppls phones if it is useful to me, eg “see this is the coupe glass set at the thrift store that sounded like what you were wanting”

Also any pics from I DIED (rip) because they are really good and I love the subject matter.

like i said, know your audience! to answer the thread title question, facebook has certainly done a number on people knowing (or not knowing) who their audience is and what is appropriate to share with that audience.

I feel like most of my fb friends are using it a lot less recently, which is great. I haven't posted anything for a year and a half and before that only posted 2-3 times a year. I never posted news/linksbecause I don't want the responsibility of moderating or want to do the work of editorializing. I travel a lot and am in a stupidly happy and easy relationship but posting about that constantly/at all seems in poor taste. Even when I travel I usually only take 1-3 pics per place because who cares, buy a postcard, look it up on googleimage, people's pics are usually crappy. Unless it's of pets of course.

lately FB is where I post from concerts about how drunk I am

Also, no one should be fb friends with current coworkers.

I am but I have my security settings set to where they can't see anything that I post unless it's something innocuous that I make available for them to see like a picture of a fuckin' butterfly

I don't post pics of butterflies

My original complaint is limited to vacation photos, how I realized today how perfectly they mirror the long-standing joke about vacation photos in the real world, and I'll narrow it down even more. If it's a photo of you at the Grand Canyon or the Eiffel Tower or whatever, sure, post away. It's photos of people sitting poolside that baffle and annoy me, or sitting down to lunch. They serve no purpose whatsoever. (Know your audience, yes--but even pictures like that from my sister I don't need.)

Also, no one should be fb friends with current coworkers.

In general, probably good advice. My present complaining aside, I've had pretty good luck with co-workers on FB.

Has always been my rule. Ive always had a few strict ones.
- no coworkers
- limited family/family set to filtered/blocked posts
- never gave FB a phone number
- never told FB where Ive worked, where I work, who my family are
- name slightly faked

My strict rule has been to ignore FB and never sign up. Works for me. I'm sure that corporate America knows more than enough about me already without my handing them the keys to my front door, my car, and the complete contents of my personal life.

yeah, I have
-no current co-workers, ( and only add previous coworkers that I like socially)
-no phone number, work, family
-no real birthdate, place
-I changed my name every 6 months until i just got locked into this one
-i trim fb friends every 4 months

I had a vote for twitter being so much worse than fb.

I defriended all of my actual friends a few weeks ago. I put a public post on my page just saying "look, I'm changing the way I'm using social media. if you want to actually chat with me, I'm still available on messenger." So now I'm just left with all the family members and uncles who joined up in 2011 or whatever (most of whom AREN'T conservative thank god and those who are thankfully have stopped posting about politics). Plus a bunch of local businesses that I actually like and local news pages so I can keep up with where the fire engines are heading off to this time or whatever.

― how's life, Sunday, March 4, 2018 11:33 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This has worked out extremely well for me.

Being on fb with only my family sounds like a job that I would want to be paid for.

the key to making fb work for you is blocking main news feed and setting up a friends list of ppl you actually like. it takes barely any time to check and you dont feel like shit plus NO ADS.

The 2016 election really threw into stark relief for me how I got no joy or utility out of using facebook and that 98% of my time spent on it was simply due to addiction and muscle memory. I would have pulled the plug completely except that it's useful to promote gigs & events I'm involved with and find out about gigs & DIY events in my town. My compromise was to install a browser plugin that blocks FB after 5 minutes each day - just enough time to create an event & invite people, check my invites, cursory scan through the feed (but little-to-no time to meaningfully comment or engage), and I'm done for the day. It's the single best decision I've made for my mental health in ages, I felt like I'd clawed hours and hours of my life back.

I love FB travel photos, at least they're not reactionary political posts like the ones my former classmates post. My best friend from grade school travels the world and posts photos of the food and beer (along with churches she's visited). She financed those trips because my brother stupidly gave her his massive baseball card collection in the seventies and she held onto them and sold them for a fortune and started her own baseball memorabilia business. So it's good to see what our lost potential windfall is funding.... :)

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