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

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

It’s actually been nice to not able to access it.

hard agree

I have definitely had the thought today "would I really miss these sites if they just never came back online?" And the answer is no for the most part. It would be nice to keep instagram just because I've been using it as a kind of musical diary of my playing, and messenger is sort of helpful for keeping track of people I don't otherwise have in my contacts, but I could remedy that by just getting their phone numbers or emails.

Would need a substitute for the family WhatsApp

how much? https://t.co/fH0zXw7rV9

— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 4, 2021

incredible

this is a great day for America

what a horrible day for purveyors of aspirational bougie content!

I might go an entire day without thinking about whether I need washable rugs or $100 linen sheets!

I was on the verge of buying a bath stone to replace my stinky bathmat, tbh

Looks like Twitter is having problems now too. I have been unable to see responses to any tweets and lots of similar complaints on down detector. Maybe all social media will go away today!

why don't you just wash the bathmat?

Fuck washing a mat

And there we have it!

notgonnahappen

So, someone deleted large sections of the routing....that doesn't mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it....that means Facebook is GONE. pic.twitter.com/OCZWPD2okw

— The Academy (@BenjaminEnfield) October 4, 2021

please please please

lol my mother usually FB messages me when she brings dad home from the adult daycare and i had to tell her "use this old fashioned texting thingy today, FB don't work".

Wish.com ad makers mourn

can instagram influencers apply for unemployment

i'd miss facebook tbh. obv society will be better off without it – but it's been a great way to keep in touch with (most) my circle of friends during these covidy times.

are we all gonna have to join gab?

I’m texting with some friends who jokes “does this mean we have to join Parler now?”

Mobile messenger app on Android is working

Google already having emergency meetings to relaunch Google+

if they weren't on facebook, my friends from around the world would presumably be on something less evil, so I welcome its death, even though I am a regular user.

xpost mine works but I noticed if I send a message it doesn't actually get delivered

i've had a test message in 'sending' for over an hour