It's a long time since I used Facebook on a regular basis, but Instagram is a weak spot where I have had to set the phone to give me just 10 minutes per day, then shut it off. Now I can go days without opening the app, and I usually manage to exit before the time is up.
I can highly recommend the book "Carless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams if you want to know just how bad it really is/was. Just remember that this is just one side of the story. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (no longer at Meta) probably have a different story.
burnt-resistor 1 hours ago [-]
Careless People? I was wondering what not having cars had to do with anything except maybe for people who have PAs/*As or live in Manhattan. ;B
sidcool 3 hours ago [-]
Nothing matters when money is on the line.
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tonis2 2 hours ago [-]
I only use facebook in like once a month and have 50 friends there from school time.
But every-time I log-in, the facebook feed recommends me the most outrageous and triggering posts from total strangers, I don't follow them or my friends don't follow them either.
But facebook is like, you know what, I think you should read this scummy post.
Absolute trash place.
nephihaha 1 hours ago [-]
That is my experience too. I am constantly being recommended ragebait, which is designed to take me into some form of extremism or another. The one small mercy is that most of it is so unsubtle I see it for what it is.
The other stuff it recommends from strangers tends to be moronic, or tries to be emotionally manipulative in some way.
Complete brainrot.
cretinoid 26 minutes ago [-]
What? But that's impossible! Who would have thought?
cromka 3 hours ago [-]
My hot take is Zuckerberg should be trialed for crimes against humanity.
trolleski 2 hours ago [-]
They grow on people misery, fuck em.
burnt-resistor 1 hours ago [-]
Stanford used to have a "persuasion technology" ("Facebook") class for deliberately maximizing trustworthiness and manipulating users. Interaction and style design are like nonverbal behavior: it's never "apolitical" or "unbiased", unavoidably omnipresent, and has real-world consequences, especially at scale.
I can highly recommend the book "Carless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams if you want to know just how bad it really is/was. Just remember that this is just one side of the story. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (no longer at Meta) probably have a different story.
But facebook is like, you know what, I think you should read this scummy post.
Absolute trash place.
The other stuff it recommends from strangers tends to be moronic, or tries to be emotionally manipulative in some way.
Complete brainrot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html
( https://archive.is/WXgXt )