Do you think its possible that the fb socializing was fun when it started but after few years we all realize that its just not the right way to socialize. You can only post so many updates and likes have no meaning anymore.
Do you think its possible that the fb socializing was fun when it started but after few years we all realize that its just not the right way to socialize
Pretty much. It's all so pointless now.
My feed today:
Important service alert from a transit agency in some other city.
Obviously fake friend request from someone who thinks a Sharpie is an eyebrow pencil.
Promoted post from some company I've never heard of pushing something I don't care about.
People You May Know who are all people I don't know.
Someone else's shared memory of an event 5 years ago I wasn't at and don't care about.
Post from a "neighborhood" group on the other side of town.
Suggested Post about something I don't care about.
Post in a language that I don't speak, but that's OK because I did intentionally follow the Yomiuri Giants.
Post from the state parks people about a state park 400 miles away.
Image caption repost of a repost of a repost of a repost from someone who thinks that life's problems can be solved by re-posting other people's refrigerator magnet thoughts.
Ad for a coffee chain in another city with no locations within 700 miles.
"Breaking News" weather alert about a dust storm last week.
News item that a local TV station posted three months ago.
Photograph of someone I don't know who is friends with someone who is friends with someone I might know.
Photo from an actual Facebook friend, but it's of his tween daughter in a leotard. Ummm...
Ad for a coffee chain in another country.
One of those "URGENT! URGENT!!! !! Please help us find out dog!" re-posts from someone 2,500 miles away.
A re-post of an image caption that's been around since the 1990's.
Photograph of a friend not wearing enough clothing with a bunch of other quite hairy people not wearing enough clothing in what I really really hope is a sauna.
Good job, Facebook. Glad to see the $70 billion spent on "user engagement AI" is working out for you.
Yeah some of it has just gotten too silly, especially the notifications of ín your 'neighbourhood' which aren't even in my city. Maybe this is based on US car culture, I don't know. But they're notifying me about friends who aren't even really friends, going to an event I wasn't invited to and have no interest being, like a colleague from another department going to a barbecue with his highschool friends in his hometown I've never visited in my life and is an hour away... as an event in my neighborhood.
Just no. And it's not even on my timeline or something, it's an actual notification, the ones we use if an actual human being sends you specifically a one on one message.
Tumblr has started doing the same thing - inserting "suggested posts" from people you don't know, don't follow, don't want to follow, and don't want to see. There seems to be no way to disable this behavior, and to me, that's frightening because some of the things it's shown me have been disturbing.
Same with Twitter. It's sorting algorithms have been awful. Made it totally worthless for things I want to see, like local National Weather Service updates for local severe weather.
It was great when it was friends showing off pictures and potentially pointless status updates, not unlike twitter. Now it’s mostly overrun with political vomit and filler content/spam. Once everyone starting friending parents, colleagues, and acquaintances, the more intimate stuff moved to more private platforms.
