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Personally, it comes off to me as desperate and presumptuous. They seem to have come to the conclusion that most users see value in getting "engagement" on Facebook, even in a nebulous and non-specific sense.
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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.
Imapfilter [1] would work. It also uses regexes so it would be easy to convert mike-cardwell's rules. [1]: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
Although 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…
FYI, LinkedIn has somewhat fine-grained email/notification configuration so you can stop these at the source. Have a look at Me (menu) > Settings & Privacy > Communications (tab) > Email frequency (controls not only overall frequency but frequency per message type, i.e. group message notifications, invitations, job notifications, connection update notifications, etc.). Also, you can entirely disable classes of notifi…
Facebook does too, but it's also slimy too. You can't preemptively opt out of specific notifications, but you can unsubscribe to types you've already received via a link in the email. The slimy thing is that some of these are fairly generically named and you can never be sure exactly what you're unsubscribing from sometimes.
I want to receive ONLY event invites and messages notifications from Facebook, but there have been a couple times where those stopped and the only way I was able to get them back was to resubscribe to stuff until I hit the one that suppressed them.
Since FB got Instagram under the belt, it's no less annoying. On the mobile app, I've turned off all notifications, because why? If I want to check in on my Instagram apps, I'll open the app myself, thank you very much. No need to litter my screen with that stuff. But guess what? The app of course knows if you have notifications turned off, and there is no way whatsoever to get the app to stop bothering you about thi…
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This is true, and now even scientifically backed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/04/30/study-l... https://www.nature.com/news/how-facebook-fake-news-and-frien...
“Research Links Heavy Facebook And Social Media Usage To Depression” Do we really need researchers to tell us that prolonged heavy anything usage increases the chance of unhappiness?
It's official. I will never work for Facebook. In terms of hipness (lack of it), positive impact (lack of it), and sliminess, this puts them on the same shelf as Comcast for me. It also frames their ruinous impact on societal discourse as "hostile" rather than just a "a naive and clumsy mistake". For Facebook employees: Is this really the company you want to work for? Is this the impact you want to have on the world?…
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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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.
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I deactivated on January 1, still find myself typing `f` in the address bar in a new tab. They've done a very good job of getting in the brain stem.
I still find that after being off Facebook for five years. Luckily the football team I hate the most has a URL that begins with f, so I started visiting that. Cured it in a week...
They also ensure there's ALWAYS at least one notification when you sign in. Even if nothing of importance happened, they find _something_ to notify you about just so you can see the red notification count every time. I deactivated my account yesterday and look forward to a FB-free life.
I mean, enjoy your FB-free life, but I tweaked my settings a bit, and I only ever get a notification if someone likes my posts/comments, which is all I care about. If I open the app after not having posted something in a day or two, it's quiet.