Yes! Thank you! This crap has been driving me crazy lately and I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
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Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#322Although I'm not on Facebook anymore, I have the same problem with LinkedIn. To deal with it, I just add to my email sieve filter every so often. So far I have: ## Linkedin - Trash useless email if allof( address :is "From" "messages-noreply@linkedin.com", anyof( header :regex "Subject" "^(Congratulate|Say happy birthday to) .+", header :regex "Subject" "^Check out .+ (updated profile|new skill|new photo)", header :r…
Dumb question: Why not filter by the from address?
That's what the
address :is "From" "messages-noreply@linkedin.com",
bit does . This is just more specific.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#323The best thing I ever did was delete the Facebook app from my phone. I had already disabled all the notifications, but that didn't change things like deleting the app. Not being able to get to Facebook wherever you are. As silly as it sounds it was liberating. I still access Facebook from my laptop - but now that it's off of my phone, I'm accessing Facebook less and less frequently and I'm find I'm happier as a resul…
> Less Facebook == more happy More productive, less distracted, etc., sure but was FB really getting you down that much? Am I just using Facebook "wrong" in that it's not upsetting me the same way it upsets others?
People are different. Some people react badly to alcohol, some don't. Facebook depressed me, closed it years ago. Enjoy your facebook.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's possible they rejected your photo because they did a reverse image search and it matched the magazine?
How would they know it's not his photo in the magazine?
I'd guess the population of magazine models who want minimum-information access is an acceptable false negative rate for Facebook.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#325Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'd like to see a modern forum site where anyone can create a subforum and moderate it themselves the way anyone can create a subreddit on Reddit. Isn't that...Reddit?
Reddit is very geared towards short-term discussion. Top comments on a post are usually from the first couple of hours and posts last less than a day. For long-term discussion traditional forums with chronological posts and threads that get re-bumped to the top are still king.
Meh sounds like Reddit just needs a sort by 'weight' option that sorts by amount of comments.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#327Although I'm not on Facebook anymore, I have the same problem with LinkedIn. To deal with it, I just add to my email sieve filter every so often. So far I have: ## Linkedin - Trash useless email if allof( address :is "From" "messages-noreply@linkedin.com", anyof( header :regex "Subject" "^(Congratulate|Say happy birthday to) .+", header :regex "Subject" "^Check out .+ (updated profile|new skill|new photo)", header :r…
Slight tangent, but any suggestions on how to do this kind of real-time filtering with Gmail? The filter functionality doesn't quite let you do regexes.
GMail filtering isn't very powerful.
Although I run my own mail server, there are other good providers out there which allow you to use sieve based filtering. Fastmail for example:
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what the address :is "From" "messages-noreply@linkedin.com", bit does . This is just more specific.
Oh wow, totally missed that. I think it's time for more coffee.
I wanted to be selective about which particular emails from Linkedin would be discarded.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought they did that, but my experience has been quick, so I cannot imagine anyone got asked. I suspect it was either an automated process, or some human looked at my photos and decide whether I am that person. I believe it would be both, so facial recognition can be trained and perfected. I'd lean to say if this was all automated, they probably did a "Google image" search and came to the conclusion it could not h…
Well, even here you seem to be posting from two different accounts. Even I get the feeling of 'suspicious activity' with your story.
Or you know, you are talking to another person that has had the same experience.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#330I'm sure Facebook, the company, enjoys posts like these:
1. Complain a whole lot about the state of affairs with FB,
2. Say "but I still like FB and will probably keep using it"
3. Propose no alternatives to the status quo.
I think this post underscores the fact that FB really didn't have anything to lose doing these things. In fact, these things caused some mildly annoyed users to write lengthy blog posts about FB to give the company even more attention attention and mental time.