iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

Sorry to hear about that.

This is not anything like that, but I'm spooked these days by what seems like diminished activity by almost everyone I know. Is anyone else experiencing this? Common sense tells me it's the pandemic--people are tired, worried, etc. The paranoid part of me worries about I'm not even sure what. It's not just that my own posts don't get much response--I'm used to that. It's that hardly anybody I know posts anymore. Used to be I'd go out for an hour or two and there'd be a message or two when I got back and five notifications of new posts. Hardly anybody posts anymore. Maybe it's something to do with my settings or algorithms or something else--I know Facebook has its own inscrutable system. But it's unnerving.

This thread is about Facebook, not ILX.

"This thread is about Facebook, not your whole life" would have worked just as well for me.

This ain't the Truth Bombs thread either!

(by that I mean, "same")

Personally, I’m posting more than ever. I’d guess lots of people are stepping back and recovering from a time when they felt the need to confront others perhaps more ever before

I pretty much only post "hey this music is great" or "hey i made this thing" posts, don't engage with anyone else's posts, don't care to.

most of my postings are Jack Handy-wannabe misdirections and i'm much happier than I was prior to my 30-day timeout.

Clemenza, I experience the same thing on Facebook. My personal reasons for posting less, and mostly inconsequential things is partly out of dread of who will interact with it. By that I mean various things - I post something innocuous so set the post to public or all friends (a list 500+ now), but then a closer friend or relative will obliviously drop my kids names or other private info in the comments. Or my mother in law will barrage me with questions or apologies. Or there’s the possibility of being publicly linked with someone who posted toxic shit elsewhere. Local acquaintances who just see me as middle aged suburban mom x, seem to distance themselves if I post anything outside that box. Other people that actually are outside of that box also distance themselves if I hedge and post too much bland stuff. Feels like ever diminishing returns to put oneself out there at all, and I’m sure I’m not unique to think so. That said, I’m still on the thing far too much browsing practical info group content and just doomscrolling. Pandemic hasn’t helped.

I pretty much only post "hey this music is great" or "hey i made this thing" posts, don't engage with anyone else's posts, don't care to.

― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Friday, March 19, 2021 10:32 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh, you mean on Facebook

lol yes, i mean on facebook.

Kim, I also mostly stopped posting anything remotely...provocative, I'd say, because anytime I would post *anything* that wasn't related to music or some endeavor of my own, people would start shit in the comments. And always the same people! It seems like a lot of the people who are still using Facebook actively are some of the most angry, depressed people I know, and I just don't care to interact with them in such a way.

the biggest thread escalation I ever caused was saying "who cares if Ben Affleck is gonna play Batman".

I think my Facebook experience is different than a lot of people's. I've almost never gone through the arguments and pestering that seems common. In all honesty, I've had more confrontation here--not constant or anything, but more than on Facebook. In the 10+ years I've been on there, there was a couple of minor flare-ups with a cousin this past election, and one over one of those pick-your-favourite-album things; I picked a Byrds album that someone else didn't think was a real album. It was over and deleted within about three posts. That's literally it--I can count them on three fingers. The general political stuff on my wall is more or less in sync with me, and the only politics from teacher friends has to do with teaching, and of course we're in sync there.

The worst annoyance for me was always people who over-posted--like constantly, 10-15 times a day. Some I unfollowed, some I let it go. Now it's just dead. I'm missing what I don't even like.

Honestly I'm praying for the death of Facebook.

facebook finished the job ilx started

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/

facebook seems kind of quaint and old fashioned now.

You find a better forum for organizing a takeover of your state Capitol l.

something feeling really desperate about them throwing friend recommendations of utterly random people in the notifications. HEY HEY HI HI MAYBE YOU KNOW THIS PERSON??? YOU SHOULD BE FRIENDS :D :D :D THEY ARE ONE OF SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE WHO IS FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE YOU HAVEN'T INTERACTED WITH IN OVER A DECADE!!!!

Hasn't that been around for a while?

The thing that was bothering me two or three weeks ago--lack of anything on FB in the way of activity--has started to subside. To paraphrase George Costanza, it's not me (I was worried that it was), it's Facebook. It just seems to be fading in general among the people I interact with--maybe pandemic-related (it's a particularly bad time where I am), or maybe more permanent.

I only signed up for Facebook last year so I could see Satoko Fuji and Natsuke Tamara perform concerts. I don’t know how anyone can use this garbage site. The UI is actively repellent and confusing. I know their shtick is trying to drag you in for hours but everything about it makes me run away within minutes.

That feature really just inspires creepy doodz to friend request friends of friends so they can mack and claim "FB said we should say hi!"

Facebook’s whining pop-up about Apple hampering ad tracking is about ‘keeping Facebook free.’

I think Facebook should institute a monthly subscription fee immediately just to see how funny the result would be.

The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:

1. Franklin Graham
2. Fox News
3. Franklin Graham
4. Sean Hannity
5. Ben Shapiro
6. Ben Shapiro
7. Ben Shapiro
8. Ben Shapiro
9. Dan Bongino
10. Ben Shapiro

— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) May 25, 2021

cancel culture has gone TOO FAR

Imagine going on Facebook and clicking on a Ben Shapiro link followed by a Dan Bongino link. Like wtf are you even doing with your life at that point

dong banino

i had to fucking check his name like 5 times before typing it here. don bangino? dan bongano? fucking idiots

i only trust an angry white guy who yells at me!

bong danelectro

danilo bongalinari

dung bandito

Ben Bagingo

preview of next week's most popular facebook posts

https://relevantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-9.32.04-AM.png

Bongo ran for Congress in my Maryland district and lost thank God.

Bongos Bass & Bob

Ben Dongiro

lol - so my friend gets an obvious scammy "hey I'll be ur sugar daddy, here's $1k a week" FB message and she shared it with me, and we were having a laugh about it on FB. in a separate thread on a mutual friend's page, I parodied the post as a joke, and FB reported that i was banned for 30 days for "sexual recruitment", and then they rejected the appeal. but it still let me post for a full fucking *12 days* before this morning, they finally began enforcing it.

all for a joke callback post on a friend's page. but the person who posted the original post? nah, they weren't banned at all!

it's a hilariously terrible mess of a site, but the vacation is probably a good thing for me anyway.

congrats man

Whenever I flag and report a racist post, Facebook eventually gets back to me with a message telling me it didn't violate any of their policies, but feel free to block the post if I don't want to see it. I should really leave that goddamn site but I have 7,000 lonely boomers depending on me to moderate their comic strip fan page, so I stay.

what strip?

Pluggers.

Pluggers know their Ben Shapiro from their Dan Bongino.

I've usually been successful getting some (if not most) racist content taken down, but transphobic shit basically goes unpunished.

Mods are Alt-Righters, no shock there I guess.

xp the strip is Pogo. And I was wrong, actually, we're up to 8,000 boomers by now. My brother and I started the group for no particular reason back in college, when Facebook was new and there were a million joke groups with like two members each. I did nothing to promote it; it just took off on its own and now I'm stuck moderating the damn thing.

Pluggers.

xp the strip is _Pogo._ And I was wrong, actually, we're up to 8,000 boomers by now. My brother and I started the group for no particular reason back in college, when Facebook was new and there were a million joke groups with like two members each. I did nothing to promote it; it just took off on its own and now I'm stuck moderating the damn thing.

I still report every obvious guns and ammo listing on FB Marketplace and have a zero percent success rate. Also a zero percent success rate at finding a $1200 Rhodes piano.

I've usually been successful getting some (if not most) racist content taken down, but transphobic shit basically goes unpunished.

Mods are Alt-Righters, no shock there I guess.

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, June 2, 2021 7:53 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

mods are low-paid, overworked, and working towards guidelines set by higher-ups.

transphobic shit basically goes unpunished

twas ever thus