Social Media Discovery

We wanted flying cars and got 140 characters.

We're not a serious country anymore, our greatest minds are finding ways to keep us scrolling and buying.

Yeah we have to bring back the high culture of the good ole days. Pet rocks. Streaking. Not wearing your seat belt so you'll be "thrown clear" of the accident. Legal marital rape. Coat-hanger abortions. The police shooting people in the back because they were "fleeing felons". Rape being asked on the stand what they were wearing when they got raped.

Consider A) a female twerking her nice butt, and B) somebody driving a flashing, overpriced car. At least A does not involve wasting a shit-ton of money. We appreciate it when neighbors plant pretty flower around their house for us to see. I like me some pretty flowers, but would have to admit I much prefer a beautiful twerking bum.

I didn't personally help invent the microchip. I don't feel better than anybody else for being as old as the people who did.

I've never had a Facebook account, not even a throwaway account. I've always thought of Facebook as a mindless --though benign-- waste of time.

But it's grown into something more sinister with over 3B members and advertising revenue of over $50B in the first half of the year. Facebook helped facilitate anti-vaxxer garbage, the insurrection on the Capitol, and provided a platform for teenage girls to feel miserable about their body image. Something needs to be done, but what?

I watched the whistle-blower interview on 60 minutes. That ex-Facebook data scientist should run for office.

As my family and friends are spread far and wide, I find Facebook to be an efficient way to hear a little about what's up with them, and let them know a little of what's up with me. By primarily only "liking" posts of people I've friended, I reduce the amount of spam in my feed versus posts by friends.

Facebook has always made it clear it's a platform for commerce and entertainment, not a press outlet. Demonizing them for looters/rioters infiltrating in with lawful protesters (Jan 6th or George Floyd protests) is stupid. Would you demonize sandpaper companies for bloody buttholes if morons decide to wipe their asses with it?

All that shit is pure evil. From your “so called” “friends” bragging about shit they buy to cope with their own insecurities to everyone trying to put their political views into your head (aka) convince you they are right…

I deleted it all 3 years ago. Felt so good.

You still need Facebook. Want to find that restaurants menu, an event in your town? Luckily you can good things like that and it’ll still come up without having an account.

So now it's Facebook's fault if we made friends with jerky people, as well as there being so many political nutjobs?

Well if you’re referring to me no I don’t think it’s facebooks fault. If you want to be on Facebook that’s your business, I was just pointing out how I can understand and have experienced how viewing Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat/TikTok can cause you to have a variety of negative feelings and who needs that? I know I don’t.

And as for your comment on “friends” there are people I’ve known for decades who I thought were really good people but Facebook shed a completely new light on them and I’m like WTF, I don’t want to know that about them. So many political psychopaths on both sides of the fence.

And to follow up ilbbaicnl I think the ONE and only ONE thing I miss from Facebook is seeing family photos of friends I haven’t seen in years. It was cool to see photos of people I grew up with now with their own kids. I could see staying in touch with family would be good but I don’t have many relatives to begin with these days so I never had that connection.

But isn't that a good thing if Facebook shows you that you need to be wary of people you otherwise would have put too much trust in?

^^^ uh no, I don't need to know that the girl I banged in high school is a psychotic anti-vaxxer, or the asshole I have to deal with through work every week is a raging socialist liberal or that the guy I play basketball with is a right wing conspiracy theorist. If they aren't your close friends or family, the less you know about people you cross paths with the better. TRUST ME on this one.

Me personally, I want to know, but not be constantly reminded. If you don't want to unfriend, there's configs that will divert their batshit away from your feed.

I feel bad for young people and their useless, impotent on-line lives. Watching the younger generations murder this country is appalling.

@ Motörhead

“The only social media site I participate in is Facebook“

isn’t TUSCL a form of social media?
Jes askin

^^^ yes that’s a valid argument but we are anonymous here (except for Lloyd) all other platforms mentioned above you are not.

^. Not really, if you’re watching the Facebook story, it just proves that you very often know nothing about the person on line you’re communicating with, or even if it’s a person or a bot.

Yeah social media can reveal some disturbing things about other people. Kinda like this video of randommember 😦

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments…

I have only one alias name account on facebook. I just use it to observe, never to interact or communicate. Facebook is the last thing I would ever want to have my real name.

SJG

TJ Street
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I now have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok accounts in various identities. They're useful for keeping contact.

And some of them are fun to watch.

“I have only one alias name account on facebook. I just use it to observe, never to interact or communicate. Facebook is the last thing I would ever want to have my real name.”

Let me guess you follow all the livestock group pages.

If it was just about keeping up with friends and family that might be worthy but it is not. FB is about convincing you to do something you would otherwise not, to feel something you wouldn’t feel on your own. They are very good at it or they wouldn’t be a trillion dollar entity. NO ONE who uses FB or insta or the others is immune, it’s only a matter of degrees. How far you will be sucked in is primarily a function of awareness and intellect. You cannot use social media and be unaffected by it, anymore than you “unsee” other vile senseless things in your life.

"FB is about convincing you to do something you would otherwise not, to feel something you wouldn’t feel on your own. "
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Not quite. The issue is that machine-learning algorithms are used to present what appears on your FB news feed. For example, if you've been interested in climate denial in the past, you're more likely to get fringe anti-vaxxer content on your feed because the two are correlated. If FB algorithms determine that you're a rabid Trump supporter, you're more likely to get fringe stories about election audits. You get the idea...FB makes more money by matching content to your interests. The more inflammatory, the more it exists on the fringe, the more money FB makes.

That's why it might make sense to make FB responsible for it's content.

Facebook has odd boundaries - and they don’t make sense to me.

I guess they banned nudity to appear as a “family safe” social media site?

I don’t have the true facts - but I’ve heard Facebook is used extensively by many unsavory types - such as traffickers and pedophiles.

I get it - they bled cash for years - as everyone decided how to monetize the internet and social media. But, it might be time to try and reign this site in.

I read the comments about how nice it is to see folks photos who live far away - and that’s cool. But, maybe the overall greater good is gone now? How much information has Facebook collected on our kids - those with both Facebook and Instagram?

Maybe Zuckerberg should come forward and be honest - that he is collecting everything he can about users through his apps - and that he’s going to continue to sell everything he can - so that he can become even wealthier - and have more control.

I'm skeptical regulation of FB can solve the problem of people being dumbasses. If you mostly eat the stuff in the big displays in the supermarket, you're going to be a fat fuck. If you get your "news" by believing whatever is slopped in front of you, by a site that doesn't even claim to be a news site, you'll be an ignorant pawn.

People are pissed about FB

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/6/f…

Also, FB went down a day or two ago, as did WhatsApp.

They say that in TJ the girls use WhatsApp. Why, what does it do for them that they could not do just be texting, email, and web browsing?

SJG

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Zucked
https://www.amazon.com/Zucked-Waking-Up-…

SJG

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Dark Secret Inside Social Media's Algorithms Revealed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgP7wEa0…

SJG

The Facebook Papers: Docs Reveal Tech Giant’s Complicity in Hate, Lies & Violence Around the World
STORYOCTOBER 26, 2021Watch Full Show
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/26/…

SJG

TJ Street
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Bondage Harness Lingerie
https://www.etsy.com/listing/856981278/b…

Part of the problem is that people are just stupid.

I don't have many "friends" on facebooks, but they are almost all actually people I know, good friends that I've known pretty well in person and want to keep in touch, or family. Most of the retarded stuff from them comes from those family members who I avoid in person.

And part is that facebook is just outright corrupt.

I regularly see ads for shit posted to look like every other posting people make. But, it's an ad. Looking right now I see shit from "antlers" (movie) and michaels craft store, HBO max, and slap dick cattle company (seriously?? this one I'm kinda interested in, video with a bunch of people in bubbles in a rodeo arena with a bull? WTF?), some get out to vote org and red bull skydiving team. Oh, and "dueling decades" wishing wierd al happy birthday....

90% of this shit is garbage. Some's just straight up ads, how facebook makes money, which I don't have issue.

But the number of times I've seen TGTBT shit, $20 chain saws, $5 die cast collector models, etc., all a bunch of blatent rip off shit that facebook happily sells ads for.

And then those happy little things like wierd als bday, that's just some scheme to collect your information. It's not some feel good want to spread their love of wierd al fan club. They are collecting information for marketing.

Even when facebook does place contractual limits on what their real customers (the marketing firms, your not their customer) can do, they don't enforce that shit and it's been clearly proven before that those firms can overstep the bounds of the privacy agreements that facebook doesn't enforce anything. Really, WTF would they, takes resources to build security and they don't fucking care.

Trump supporters should boycot tik tok coz its Chinese...like when Trump wanted to ban it 🙄

TikTok is Chinese spyware, no matter who is president.