iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

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

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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

so when the community guidelines say that transgender people are a protected group and someone is posting how transgender women aren't women, calls then Frankensteins, and other horrible things that I don't want to say here that are obviously in violation of the Community Standards, and then when reported, they insist even upon appeal that these comments don't violate community standards, they have no blame in the matter at all?

Like I know some of the review is done by bots/automated and I'm not defending Facebook as a company, but when I see people getting banned for saying Trump voters are "stupid" and not for extremely racist/transphobic stuff, none of these employees are letting their personal biases into the fray?

their community standards are fairly poor but even they're clear that this shit isn't allowed and it goes unpunished, even on pages which are supposed to be safe spaces for these people. comments criticizing the transphobic get removed as "bullying" where the offensive transphobic comments stay up.

xpost

well for sure some moderators working for whatever partner facebook farms out content moderation to will have extreme right-wing views - they look at extreme right-wing stuff on facebook all day, it's got to work on some of them. but their work is also insecure and highly scrutinized. if they were making many mistakes by not moderating things that they should they would be fired. if it's a systemic for users it's not an accident

systemic problem

I should really start keeping a file of all the horrible comments I report that turn out not to violate community standards, because it happens ALL THE TIME.

xp to Boring, Maryland: Oh, the Jack Acid Society comes up from time to time. There are some real Pogo experts in the group and they have a fine old time talking to each other about all the minutiae of Walt Kelly's art. I actually feel fine about the group itself; it seems to provide some interest and connection for a lot of people my parents' age, and I moderate it carefully enough to keep it from turning into a dumpster fire like most Facebook groups. I just wish it weren't on Facebook, because it keeps me trapped there.

zero percent success rate at finding a $1200 Rhodes piano

Man, that's the last straw. Fuck Facebook forever.

Perhaps we could crowdfund this?

xp my solution to this many years ago was creating a facebook page for my dog, which i kept secret, and adding fido as an administrator on the pages and groups i managed at the time (but have ling since abandoned) before deleting myself.

make Beauregard Bugleboy the admin of the Pogo group

lol crut

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/06/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-clashes-with-facebook-in-social-media-giant-s-first-appearance-before-mps.html

I just got a 30 day FB ban for writing "shut the fuck up you dumbshit hamster".

u fucked w the wrong hamster apparently

Zuck apparently needs another run on the wheel this mornin

pick on a species your own size next time

"shut the fuck up you middle aged fat bearded guy with a bad back!"

*half of ILX turns around*

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