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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by steezeburger »

eek2121 wrote: post #477
rconti wrote: post #410

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I've been a male (it's in my profile!) for all 22 years (yikes) I've been using facebook. I don't get that stuff.

There is definitely more to this. I’ve been on Facebook since it opened up to the public, and they know for a fact that I am a guy. I literally only use it to communicate with family. I logged in today on both desktop and iOS, and the only thing I saw were updates from friends/family that I personally know.The only AI things were from a nerdy friend that created/shared/disclosed of it being AI, the rest was real stuf…

I think they definitely track how long you stay on something as you're scrolling. They show an attractive woman doing your hobby, then it just keeps going.

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Post by mvdtnz »

Don't know why Linda Dong (yoleendadong) has to catch strays from this post. Her videos are legitimately funny, absolutely not sloppy or bait. Her content is brilliant.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by GorbachevyChase »

pwrsysengineer wrote: post #496
xethos wrote: post #481

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> my feed was filled images of children wearing bathing suits and in suggestive positions > I was taking screenshots for a while More than a little surprised this seemed like a good idea at the time, let alone that you did so for a while without thinking "There is no scenario this ends well"

It does sound bad, and yes I deleted them. I wanted to convince my friends at Meta of what I was seeing. They didn't believe me until I showed them.

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Post by Aurornis »

AlienRobot wrote: post #450
Aurornis wrote: post #255

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> So the algorithms for people that travel internationally a lot are drastically different from the people who remain stationary. I can confirm the same experience as the parent commenter for my family who still use Facebook even though most of them don't travel internationally. > If Facebook wanted to prevent themselves from negative publicity, they might have a different experience for the people who have political…

It would be very ironic if the reason people complain about Facebook so ardently is that they just didn't have enough friends IRL in first place to make Facebook work the way it should.

I have one circle of friends who are barely online at all. Their phones exist for minimal e-mails and texts and that's it. A couple don't even have a dedicated internet connection at home. Their experience on Facebook wouldn't be good either.

I do agree with your general sentiment, though: Many complaints about Facebook come from people who don't want to invest time into finding their friends online and engaging with friend content. They log in, see what the article sees, assume that's all there is, and abandon it. Most people just move on, but a few will complain about Facebook based on their limited experience from 10 years ago.

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Post by GorbachevyChase »

boxedemp wrote: post #490
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.…

This is one of the reasons I always identify as non-binary when asked.

That is a pretty clever algorithm hack. I wonder if you get bombarded with pharmaceutical ads as a consequence.

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Post by jrumbut »

arcatech wrote: post #425
groundzeros2015 wrote: post #414

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Sometimes you have to stand for something even if it’s inconvenient.

It's working too. All my friends stopped using Facebook for similar reasons. My feed went from a 24/7 pleasant reunion to a fetid swamp and now I also have stopped using it.

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Post by Throaway1982 »

afavour wrote: post #337
Aurornis wrote: post #255

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> So the algorithms for people that travel internationally a lot are drastically different from the people who remain stationary. I can confirm the same experience as the parent commenter for my family who still use Facebook even though most of them don't travel internationally. > If Facebook wanted to prevent themselves from negative publicity, they might have a different experience for the people who have political…

I do think it’s that but with a dangerous slippery slope embedded within. FB will optimize for engagement no matter what so if you linger on one political post they put among 99 friends and family posts they’ll immediately amp up the ratio. You need to somehow maintain a perfect ratio of time spent on FB to fresh family and friends content, otherwise FB will fill the space for you. My mother in law is an example of t…

FB Marketplace makes you click on ads in order to tell the platform that you dont want to see that kind of listing anymore.

Unfortunately, clicking on the ad alerts the algorithm, which then shows you MORE of that type of ad that if you had not clicked at all.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by GreenDolphinSys »

jedberg wrote: post #366
dagurp wrote: post #362

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I don't get anything like that. Just memes and people complaining about dog poo

Are you looking at your feed or the reels? It happens in the reels (and on Instagram if you go the search page, most of the suggested items are thirsty)

That may apply to a vanilla account, but if your account is old, then that's just the kind of stuff you click like on, dwell on, bookmark, etc. We have to consider that these men may not be honest about their activity as well.

The search and reels page just shows you what you interact with, and in my experience it tends to overreact to recent input. Look at a couple cat reels for example, and the very next or so refresh will have more cat reels.

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