iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

i’m pretty close to deleting instagram, which gets me one step closer to being entirely off big tech (apart from uh, my apple ID). whatsapp is the other big one, though. that’s harder to surmount. feels more like a utility than the others and i would have a very hard time doing without it.

facebook i haven’t thought about in years and years apart from what i read in the news.

I check in on Facebook only because my family worries about me if I don't. None of friends or family enjoy it because everyone's nosy old aunt or neighbor or grammar school teacher is also reading their timelines. It's become depressing.

Also what's really awkward is when a school friend posts a tasteless joke and five minutes later your other school friend announces that their brother has just died or something. Having all of these disparate contacts in one place has made a lot of people reticent. No one knows what to post anymore so they just post pictures of food or their dog.

The latest tragicomedy was this week when I damn near permanently crippled myself obtaining a giant bottle of Galliano for my brother. Also dropped the $50 bottle but thankfully it didn't crack. By the time thing made it to my kitchen table, I was in tears.

However I cannot seek consolation on FB regarding my fragile holiday emotional state as it would entail revealing said gift and the hell I went through to get it.

i learned through FB pics who the new girl my bro is seeing is. because even though he wasn't tagged in the pic, his best friend posted it, so his ex blew up at him ("you're already over me!!!"), and my brother told my mother, and she told me.

sadly, someone I was kinda into, but my dating life has pretty much ended until pandemic ends/caregiving stabilizes, and plus I'm looking scraggly and ugly these days. (though I did shave finally)

I M Losted you are right about people being tentative about the climate right now of what to post. there's so much sadness I think people are afraid to share some joy as it might come across the wrong way?

Absolutely. You don't want to post something happy or trivial when someone else in your extended circle is having a rough time.

i post once a day, if that these days. except for when sports are on

Can never delete Instagram because I'd miss Brisk God videos

one of my friends is, for what seems like the third time this year, publicly telling everybody that he's done with his fiancee and tagged her in the post AND made the post global.

if this fits the usual pattern, it will be deleted in ten minutes, and tomorrow there will be a huge pic of the two of them that he shares, all smiles.

don't get on facebook

Bruce!

Sorry for the clickbait source but I can't see beyond the paywall. (Original source is the WSJ.)

https://www.rawstory.com/mark-zuckerberg-2656194176/

The company's "sharp-elbowed" response to Haugen's claims was driven by Zuckerberg as the social media giant faced its biggest crisis in years, according to the report. Zuckerberg "told employees not to apologize" and announced the company was changing its name to Meta.

"Mr. Zuckerberg pushed subordinates to respond more forcefully to the bad publicity, according to people familiar with the discussions," according to the Wall Street Journal. "In a virtual meeting in late November, some of Meta’s largest institutional investors asked Facebook to address some of the issues around user safety, according to people familiar with the call. Some investors found Mr. Zuckerberg, who also is chairman, defensive on the call, these people said. They left dissatisfied with Facebook’s overall response, because the company reiterated previous talking points and didn’t share any big new changes, according to a written briefing about the meeting described to the Journal."

the company reiterated previous talking points and didn’t share any big new changes

when was this ever not true of FB?

That time they made Breitbart part of their "fact checking" group?

im beginning to think sociopaths shouldnt control everything, sorry thats just how i feel

"Move fast and break things then don't apologize."

There just needs to be a culling of all tech billionaires. I'm sure the videos of such would go quite viral and generate a lot of hits.

i use it mostly to catalogue my music movie and game collection!

https://www.garbageday.email/p/viral-content-optimized-to-piss-off

I've noticed the last few weeks, in politics and COVID threads, and just now in a baseball thread, people posting Twitter threads where the person tweeting has a lot to say and breaks everything into a whole bunch (meaning, what they need to say/140) of tweets. Is this relatively new, or have people always done that on Twitter? Facebook's zillion and one problems are well documented in this thread, but it also has this amazing feature (shared by ILX and other message boards) where you can say everything you want in one place.

‘1/997’ tweet threads have been a running joke for at least a decade.

They began the minute someone decided to use the platform for something other than dick jokes or micro-blogging about where they got a latte.

Okay. Almost all the tweeting I see is what shows up here.

It just seems so dumb to me that people would do that.

You're not wrong. There are rare occasions when the format works because each succeeding tweet reveals something more insane in a deep dive, like a slide show of horrors

The thing you need to understand about today's Zillow find is that it was built in 2010 in the United States of America. 1/ pic.twitter.com/Rd5JrrsVgr

— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) January 14, 2022

I'm immediately launching a new social media platform called Slide Show of Horrors, for people with stories to share that get worse and worse by the sentence.

that's a helluva thread there

facebook.com itself is on borrowed time, their only hope is whatsapp and insta (and lmao metaverse)

Holy shit. Facebook just *got smaller,* probably for the first time in its history. https://t.co/59xqrmpB9M pic.twitter.com/bAo0cHIrh1

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) February 2, 2022

Diediediediediediedie

tis a consummation devoutly to be wished

some of their ivermectin hydroxychloroquine posters stopped using the site because they are dead

stock down 25%

Sheesh. Not every day that $230 billion in market cap goes poof.

pic.twitter.com/aobBLaWeCN

— drill (ON THE RUN) (@drilliebobby) February 7, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/07/facebook-metaverse-horizon-worlds-kids-safety/

I can't express how peeved I am that these douches are ruining the word metaverse which Atlus shd've locked down

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/02/facebook-hate-speech-misinformation-superusers/621617/

what a shithole. Interesting to see how the weightings work/ change. would love to run an experiment slowly turning all the popular content more and more lefty.

eh

Instagram owner Meta said it would let its users in some countries call for violence against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60709208

I guess it handed Russia a rationale to block Facebook and Instagram. They probably would've found one anyway.

buy nothing now has an app so you don't have to sign up to facebook to post/reply.

what's the difference between buy nothing and freecycle?

Buy Nothing is a bit more idealistic and community-minded and generally restricted to a smaller area, I think.

Was locked out of my account ("Facebook Protect"-related) for 36 hours, a friend finally figured out a solution (gave him my password and he logged in, and then, for reasons I don't understand, I was able to also).

Not to sound naive, but one question coming out of this: besides "billions of dollars," how is a public company that (if locked out from your account) pretty much can not be contacted--by phone, by e-mail--allowed to operate? Even Microsoft and Amazon, I'm pretty sure I was able to contact them in the past over a couple of issues. Here, I was caught in this Joseph Heller-level endless loop: 1) locked out; 2) required to change settings to get back in; 3) can't change settings because I'm locked out.

WHOA DOCTOR, facebook got BURNED on this one!!!

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It’s been four years since users alleging harm caused by the Cambridge Analytica scandal sued Facebook (now Meta) for selling tons of easily identifying personal information to third parties, allegedly doing so even when users thought they had denied consent. In 2018, plaintiffs alleged in a consolidated complaint that Facebook acted in “astonishingly reckless” ways and did “almost nothing” to protect users from the potential harms of this “intentionally” obscured massive data market. The company, they said, put 87 million users at “a substantial and imminent risk of identity theft, fraud, stalking, scams, unwanted texts, emails, and even hacking.” And users’ only option to avoid these risks was to set everything on Facebook to private—so even friends wouldn’t see their activity.

Because of Facebook’s allegedly deceptive practices, plaintiffs said that “Facebook users suffered concrete injury in ways that transcend a normal data breach injury.” Plaintiffs had gotten so far in court defending these claims that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was scheduled to take the stand for six hours this September, along with lengthy depositions scheduled for former Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and current Meta Chief Growth Officer Javier Olivan. However, it looks like none of those depositions will be happening now.

On Friday, a joint motion was filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California. It confirmed that the plaintiffs and Facebook had reached a settlement agreement that seems to have finally ended the class action lawsuit that Meta had previously said it hoped would be over by March 2023.

It's not clear yet how much the settlement will cost Facebook—which has already paid billions in fines to the FTC—but there may be more information on Facebook sanctions in the next few days. Although the joint motion requested 60 days to draft a written settlement agreement, US district judge Vince Chhabria only granted the motion in part. Chhabria said he still expects all parties to “appear at the hearing on Friday, September 2 to discuss sanctions.”

Meta and Facebook’s legal team told Ars that it has no comment. The plaintiffs’ legal team did not immediately respond.

OUCH!!!!!!

https://social.entrepreneur.com/s/sajak-walks-off-set?as=6dap23851079301260596&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=z020409&utm_content=23851079248380596&utm_campaign=6dap23851079301260596&bdk=0

i included the facebook bonus URL numbers because it's the facebook thread.

if you have 5 minutes, you should read through that link. i feel very strange now

https://i.imgur.com/9e62auv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/RFJnJtJ.jpg
sajak appears to be in physical pain whenever he has to give away 100K

i was not aware of this https://www.garbageday.email/i/75786121/bolsonaro-finally-debates. they really do have the stench of death on them as a company.

The debate in Brazil this week was notable for a few reasons, but the biggest one for me was that Bolsonaro skipped the one in 2018, instead going live on his Facebook as the other candidates debated each other. It’s hard to imagine Facebook Live (or any Meta product) being able to counter-program a national primetime broadcast in 2022, but four years ago, Bolsonaro was able to fully tap into an out-of-control social media groundswell, thanks to pretty much unlimited reached on Facebook and WhatsApp. When he won, his supporters literally chanted “Facebook” and “WhatsApp” at the presidential palace gates. And in an interesting story that I haven’t seen really talked about in the English media yet is that it’s not just Bolsonaro that is suffering from Meta’s waning cultural influence in Brazil and Instagram’s pivot to TikTok, but also all of the far-right influencers that ran alongside him in 2018. And so it should come as no surprise that Bolsonaro has recently begun focusing on Telegram.

I would rather his focus on drowning in his bathtub

Here's the unsolvable FB problem - having your spot blown up all the time. I.E. being tagged places you don't wanna be tagged.

Oh sure, you can stop it from showing up on your OWN Timeline with just a mere setting adjustment, which I added ages ago.

But that is useless if you have lots of friends are mutual friends with each other. If someone else tags me and I never approve adding it to MY timeline, my name still shows up in the friend's post. Which means people who are friends with the person who tagged me can see I'm there, it just delinks the link to my profile.

I can remove the tag, but until I notice it, my whereabouts are out there temporarily. So I wind up having to talk to people in advance to ask them not to tag me. Posting pics is worse cos it doesn't matter if I'm tagged if people recognize me, but I can solve that by not taking them with anyone?

Why do I care so much? Idk. For one I don't like people knowing where I'm at unless I choose to share that info, but mostly, a new age of FOMO butthurt that the social media age brought on.

Namely, I've had situations where random friends demand to know WHY WASN'T I INVITED when they see I was somewhere without them (one reason I don't check in places often), or I'll be invited to something but have a conflict, then that other person tags me and mutual friend yells OH SO THIS IS WHAT YOU BLEW ME OFF FOR?

I mean yeah that's childish behavior and it's not my responsibility to prevent people's feelings from being hurt, so if it comes to that, I'll just ditch any high drama friend if they do it more than once, but I also don't always want to advertise what I'm doing as that takes that control away from me.

(like it's diff if you're actually lying about your whereabouts and get tagged where you really are, cos that's actually kinda funny)

This is a solvable problem because within 5 years almost no one who isn't in a senior care facility will be using Facebook. All the tagging will be "game room" or "dining room."