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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by nojs »

nathanaldensr wrote: post #96
dash2 wrote: post #93

This is the tech version of "nobody I know voted for Nixon": FB's position in the US & Europe is very misleading from a global perspective. In the Philippines, say, Facebook is the internet. Every business runs on it. People use it instead of news. Everybody uses Messenger to chat. You get free minutes with your phone that are specifically for FB/IG/Messenger.

As someone with a Filipina wife and who's traveled many times to the Philippines, your characterization is exactly correct. Facebook is the option, not just one option. Interesting side fact: The Philippines is #1 in social media usage in the world.

> The Philippines is #1 in social media usage in the world.

By what metric?

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by HoldOnAMinute »

sparky_z wrote: post #111
HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #3

I'm a parent in my 50's. "Peak Facebook" is years in the past for me. But it was great for a while. My spouse, friends, friends' spouses, and I were all sharing stories and pictures of our kids, travels, and experiences, such as dining experiences or hikes. There was so much joyous sharing. And it wasn't done for clicks, views, or monetization. It was just friends, sharing their experiences, encouraging each other, e…

> It all just went away, starting with the husbands. I honestly can't tell whether I'm supposed to interpret this as "The dads lost interest in Facebook before anyone else", or "Everybody got divorced."

I would say their priorities changed. They spent less time with social media and just did other things.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by HoldOnAMinute »

da02 wrote: post #10
HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #3

I'm a parent in my 50's. "Peak Facebook" is years in the past for me. But it was great for a while. My spouse, friends, friends' spouses, and I were all sharing stories and pictures of our kids, travels, and experiences, such as dining experiences or hikes. There was so much joyous sharing. And it wasn't done for clicks, views, or monetization. It was just friends, sharing their experiences, encouraging each other, e…

What do your social groups use nowadays?

Nothing, the sharing has stopped.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by munificent »

strangattractor wrote: post #216
SamuelAdams wrote: post #198

This is not unique to Facebook. Reddit has seen a large uptick in AI-generated posts, or repeated posts from the past. I think we need to recognize that social media of 2026 is not the same as what we had in 2006. AI generated content, regardless of if it is image, video, or text, is here to stay. And it will only get better and more convincing as the technology improves. What people really need to ask is this - what…

Coining HNs Law Any mode of communication that depends on advertising for funding will over time t monotonically approach total BullShit Grifting as t increases.

It already has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by Dr_Birdbrain »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #13
mgiampapa wrote: post #4

Social media is mostly about what you make of it and how you interact to find value. This is the same in Twitter, TikTok, FB, Instagram, even LinkedIn. If you don't interact with the product, you get lowest denominator crap.

This is not true for the major social media sites that control the algorithmic feeds. (Facebook, Xitter, Reddit, YouTube...) While you may be able to add a small bend to the feed, it's really 90% in their power, not yours. I'm looking at Facebook "Home" feed. Funny how they added a separate "Friends" feed, the original purpose of the site, that's not the default.

For Reddit, you can select an option so that it only shows you things from subs you follow. Dramatically improves the experience!

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by underlipton »

jrmg wrote: post #226
wincy wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar experience for me and it’s just been replaced with… nothing. My gaming buddies talk on Discord but I just don’t really hear from my aunts and uncles and cousins anymore. It’d be a hassle to even figure out how to contact them. Only 13 people showed up to my high school reunion last year from a graduating class of ~400.

It’s returned to nothing. Losing touch with people you didn’t contact regularly was the norm until the mid 2000s. For someone who grew up in the ‘golden years’ of social media, it’s kinda weird to see.

It just keeps tumblring down, tumblring down, tumblring down. I just keep logging me out, logging me out, logging me out.

I joke, but the internet I knew as a youth going the way of the dinosaurs really has had a deep impact on me. End of an epoch.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by pwrsysengineer »

jedberg wrote: post #204

> So: is this just something wacky with my algorithm? No, it's not. Once Meta identifies you as male, you will get almost exclusively thirst trap posts no matter what you do. It started about two years ago. Some other interesting points: A woman posted on reddit recently saying she noticed her son's feed was filled with this stuff, so she created her own instagram account, identified as a man, and had the same feed.…

I created a Facebook account a few years ago to get in on the local marketplace deals. After opening the website a few times and seeing very suggestive content, I had the idea of tailoring my feed to the most racy things I could find. Eventually, my feed was filled images of children wearing bathing suits and in suggestive positions, censored images of sexual acts, and AI generated images of elderly women with large breasts and little clothing. I was taking screenshots for a while but one time I opened my photo gallery while on the train and realized how embarrassing it looked to have a phone filled with this crap. Edit: Used more respectful language

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by [deleted] »

hmokiguess wrote: post #158
mirekrusin wrote: post #87

I think author goes on porn sites and it skews algo towards crap like that (no cookies/incognito/etc doesn't save you from them tracking where you move), especially if he's not active on fb then that's the only signal they get.

Takes one to know one? Could you elaborate

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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by underlipton »

drnick1 wrote: post #138
bojanz wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my part of Europe it’s all in private WhatsApp groups (one for inner family, one for friends, etc)

Unfortunately, those are also being surveilled by Meta, so the exodus from Facebook did not help. Consider Signal or a private XMPP server.

I convinced my family to try Signal, and after a month of not being able to connect despite knowing each other's numbers - silent errors - I had to apologize and join them on WhatsApp.

They all use iMessage primarily, but that's a whole other can-of-worms conversation. (Screw Apple.)

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