iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

Neanderthal otm. The fact that there's always an implied audience in particular raises the stakes imo.

Neanderthal OTM, yeah (as well as many others).

Not just FB per se, but … I just don’t think this many minds are really meant to be squeezed together on a social media platform. It isn’t necessarily healthy for humanity.

I’ve been on FB since 2011 and it’s been instructive to watch people grow up through trial and error (and also to grow up *myself*) in terms of interacting with people and kind of checking myself as to whether or not my comments or thoughts are really always necessary. Sometimes you just keep scrolling, or mute someone for a month, or unfriend, or whatever. And a firestorm is avoided, mental energy and emotion conserved.

A lot of people have just left social media - the combative and the mild alike. And as I’ve gotten older, my impulse has been to communicate more frequently with people in real life (remember that?) or singly or in small groups via text or DM, when I have an opinion that’s barbed or need some specific feedback about something. The whole world doesn’t always need to know why I had a bad day or a bad week (or even if I’ve had a good day or a good week).

Saw this last night, a new low?

https://i.imgur.com/xGO5U2E.png

(narrator: I saw plenty of posts from friends, and I never see ads on FB nor anywhere else)

what the hell is this

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I enjoy the byproduct of FB that is two strangers ripping into each other on a post about a local event and a friend who somehow knows both people intervening so the other two don't kill each other IRL

Most of my posts in this thread are about how much I hate Facebook and hate that I've let it become part of my life, so I'm really loathe to defend it in any context. But god it's nauseating to watch Josh Hawley and Lindsey Graham get all self-righteous for the cameras in that hearing today. "You have blood on your hands" says Trump/Jan. 6 apologist Lindsay Graham to the approval of the room.

you don't have to watch that! you and i and everyone except the new york times knows that it's just playacting. don't do it!

that said, the part with tom cotton doggedly asking the singaporean guy if he was a commie spy who approved of tiananemen square was . . . really something

I wasn't watching, I just caught it on the news. (If I had been watching, though, I'd say so--I hate the supercilious "Why are you watching this?" posting on ILX.)

what hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCB-SQJLr9E

what does he apologise for

Anyone else find themselves inundated with unwanted "Reels and short videos?" Every time I hide them and ask for fewer of them, but they're never not there. Complaining via help and support is pointless, of course.

Reels seems to be a big part of FB's business strategy right now: https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-reels-revenue-narrows-tiktok-boosted-by-ai-2023-07-27/

I'll see if I can talk them into ignoring their marketing strategy to please a retired Canadian grade-school teacher.

What's with this thing where someone posts something fucked up and the first thing someone does is write I HAVE 55 MUTUALS WITH THIS GUY, WTF GUYS, THAT'S FUCKED UP and yet won't state who it is that said it, like everyone knows.

Like I see it all the time now, why is it the assumption that everyone is complicit if they friend someone who eventually says fucked up shit and they're perennially online to the point where they see everything the moment it goes up.

I don't really even add people anymore but can tell you it helps a lot more if you just say "hi this person is fucked up, here's their name" so people actually are aware, particularly when the algorithm hides so much, rather than assuming everyone knows and tolerates it

It’s a bummer when I do open the app and look at memories and 12 years ago see interactions with a dozen people who don’t use Facebook anymore (me either, really), old friends who live thousands of miles away. Now maybe there are some mutual Instagram likes but no real interaction.

The depths of the enshittification of Facebook are astounding.