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― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 March 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
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
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Monday, 18 March 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
More than one.
― pplains, Monday, 18 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
tmz comes out of this smelling like a rose - why, yes, luke perry is absolutely, indisputably dead!
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Monday, 18 March 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
tmz is gross but they’re pretty good about the declaring people dead thing
― maura, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:03 (five years ago) link
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!
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
Facebook admits it stored ‘hundreds of millions’ of account passwords in plaintext
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 21 March 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
surely this will be the moment people stop using facebook...
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 March 2019 18:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― nathom, Saturday, 23 March 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
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?
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
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.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 08:27 (four years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
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
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
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
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Fucked up.
Wait i misunderstood—you have to have “facebook dating” to get a crush notification
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Wtf is Facebook dating???
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
idk. apparently it hasn't been rolled out in america yet.
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
otm except read “juice MAUs” for “earn a buck”
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
i deleted my Flange account and started a Minge account
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
but i still get emails saying people "liked" me wtf.
stop bragging already
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
Xpost GaruGBook
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
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/
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 May 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
love to get fined $5 billion and see your shares go up
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 July 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
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
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
Just quit dude. That's how it dies.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
^^^^^
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
yeah i deleted my account ~2 years ago and i just never even think about it anymore
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
people DID stop smokign cigarettes though.
remember that. things can change.
― treeship., Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
to follow in tobackey's downfall, that'll require some government restrictions on Facebook
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
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
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
it also occasionally helps me learn which people I know are secretly bags of shit, so, there's that.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Saturday, 14 December 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Even better is thinking about how that could potentially happen to people (ie my family) who have avoided facebook their entire life
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
One time I wore a Leatherface mask and it mistook the mask for my friend Victor's face
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
xp yea I have a friend who mentioned that recently, he's not on FB but he's reasonably sure that FB still knows who he is because his girlfriend is and he appears in pictures
oddly enough FB mistakes my brother for me a lot, he doesn't tag himself in anything so for some reason it thinks new photos of him are actually me. its odd because we don't look *that* much alike, plus he's got a substantial beard and I don't. I wonder what's going on there
― frogbs, Sunday, 15 December 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
the people on the internet ruined the internet
if you look closely you may stilp see some of them at it to this very day
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 December 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
hubbub (n.)
1550s, whobub "confused noise," of uncertain origin; according to OED generally believed to be of Irish origin, perhaps from Gaelic ub!, expression of aversion or contempt, or Old Irish battle cry abu!
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 15 December 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
hmm not that id ever argue with experts or anything but hmm
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
Why do people automatically think you know who is a family member commenting and give you shit for criticizing something they wrote?
I could see if they have the same last name and are listed as family on FB but one of my friends wrote something and got told by someone to stop spreading "hate". I defended him mildly, because I figured they might be family, but wasn't sure. No name-calling, just defending what he said.
Only for his husband (also a friend of mine) to freak out and tell me she was his aunt and to step back.
Ok?
And another time this dude's mother wrote something really heinous and stupid on his FB profile and people came after her and he wrote this screed about how dare people be nasty to his mother.
Idk if you have salty family members maybe tell them to stfu?
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 January 2020 02:01 (four years ago) link
Are these people part of your theater group? After all, that's the only reason you're still on Facebook, right?
― pplains, Saturday, 11 January 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
xp i . . . have no idea what you're even saying. families? friends? husbands? who
(i suspect the answer is to quit facebook tho. i repeatedly ignored my father's friend request and i was right to do it)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 January 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
imo yes Facebook did ruin the internet
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 11 January 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
I'm still technically on Facebook, but I more or less abandoned it 5 years ago after a) coming to dislike the context collapse I experienced there as the site became more popular, and b) joining and becoming addicted to Twitter.
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. But also just pleasant low-level online interactions seem appealing sometimes.
(I do not, however, want to argue on Facebook about politics or the latest online outrage; I'd rather do that on more niche platforms that don't include random family members or high-school classmates.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 11 January 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link