#facebook is garbage

[mostlyinthemorning]

Facebook is (literal) garbage

For the past 3 weeks, I've been running a little experiment on my Facebook feed. (Yes, I know, Facebook/Meta is terrible, but I have to be on there for work, so...)

Anyway, once or twice I day, I would go onto my FB feed and write down every single thing I saw for the first 60 posts in my feed. I didn't engage with any of the content in any way, I didn't like any posts or comment on anything so as to not influence the algorithm.

Then, I categorized all the posts into two categories: Stuff I Want to See (friends, pages I follow, groups I'm in) and Garbage (everything else).

This is the result:

Out of the 3,900 posts I saw, 2,715 (69.6%) were garbage.

When I tell people about this they nod knowingly and say, "Oh, the ads." But the ads were actually fine. All the ads I saw were either for local to me pages or events or for major brands. What was awful were the pages and groups that were suggested for me.

Imagine wading through a sea of the most anodyne, nostalgic garbage you've seen from the same pages over and over again. Cutesy DIY and craft projects, black and white historical photos of places I don't care about, sports teams I'm not interested in, weird celebrity before and after photos. By the end, I felt like there was something really awful happening to my brain for being doused in this pablum every day (and there probably was!).

Full breakdown:

Posts from friends: 5.3% My groups: 7.3% Pages I follow: 6.9% Suggested groups: 8.8% Suggested pages: 38.4% Ads: 18.3%

Everyone's algorithm will be different, of course, but I can confidently say that spending three weeks reading ALL of my FB posts makes me never want to spend time on my feed ever again.

[gothhyrax]

its hard being a horror fan because some of y'alls takes are just braindead garbage

[victusinveritas]

Ah, yes, the five genders: Black, Middle-eatern, South-Easten, Huging, and South Asian

[thesullenwordsmith]

meta doesn't allow reporting posts for intellectual property violations and copyright infringement now.

I just did it last week with an Ad that used the Ghibli art style. People using it for funsies and in mass amounts - enough to have the servers "melting" - was bad enough.

Now people are straight up running digital Ads on STOLEN ART. But, I could report it atleast last week.

I tried to do it with a different Ad today. Guess what? Meta simply took it out.

Guess I'll have to DM Miyazaki himself to abide by their "reporting criteria". :))

Well, artists, this is a bad bad time for you to put up your art on ANY meta platform. PLEASE. AI can and will eat up your art and shit it out to some talentless organization to profit off of it.

And you bet they'll make it impossible for you to even sue them.

[alex51324]

Speaking of those weird patriotic AI-generated images on Facebook, I just got this one:

I can't decide which is worse, if this is supposed* to be a ditch full of soldiers' corpses, or if the idea is that soldiers just sometimes curl up and have a slumber party among the sandbags in the middle of the day. In body armor, but no helmets, and with weapons just sort of...scattered around. Except for a few who are clutching them like teddy bears.

(*I mean, it's AI, so it isn't supposed to be anything, but what did the person who gave the prompt and selected this output to post on Facebook think was happening?

And while we're at it, what are the working conditions like for that person? I've sort of hazily been assuming it's some sort of overseas sweatshop situation, but is it?)

[themostfinalofpams]

My maternal family (except my mom) will take every single possible opportunity to publicly misgender me I swear to the gods

[t4tprinzzy]

do you think they’ve ever been in a situationship

[juliaprecourt]

Curious what's being posted on Facebook these days? Its AI images about a person having to tragically make their own birthday cake.

Shout out to all the peach cream filling ones.

[scarefox]

Ugh why is LinkedIn the facebook of the job market 💀 It's so dry, ugly, bad search engine and KI bullshit everywhere.

Only logged back in after years because a ex classmate posted something.

Also shit like this

[bucephaly]

Oh my g-d okay your tags on the Cherokee 'great grandma was a princess' post. 'Spirit wolf' whatever names? According to the BIA, that's literally a sign that a tribe is full of shit. A lot of times, the folks running admin for these groups have names like 'Big Standing Bear Jones'. My personal favorite was 'Buffalo Sister'. It's connected to 'naming ceremonies' they give themselves, which is also a common thing the BIA has noticed with all of these groups. Whatever you do don't go on Tiktok it's terrible there

YEA I think I've seen you talk abt that before, or I've seen it somewhere. It does feel like I see bogus state tribe people talk about getting Naming Ceremonies soooo often and then actual connected people ive seen are like. 'Yea my grandma just called me worm' or smth lmao.

It's so funny cuz the 'cherokee names' in the fake tribes are always in English... or at least mostly. I've even heard someone say 'I was named [such and such in english] and we just don't know what it would be in cherokee yet' like. A cherokee name..... get this... a cherokee name is by definition... in cherokee.

[blondedingdong]

you know your brain wants to fry itself when you really crave watching the emoji movie on netflix...

[bad-heads]

I feel like all I've been watching lately is Dawson's Creek, and yes I am still rooting for Jen and Joey to get together.

[possforeffect]

Reddit has insane double standards. There are entire subreddits dedicaed to promoting bigotry, conspriacy theories, and harassing people who aren't CisHet, but if you try to tell a moderator that you feel your ban is unfair, you get a three-day ban for harassment.

Just another reminder that every social media platform, including this one, is run by fascists.

[krmoaten-blog]

Bruh what is this AI generated shlock on my Facebook?

[llatimeria]

i've found it's not good to (seriously) examine conservatives with "well, if they believe that, logically they should also believe this ridiculous thing! but they don't so they're hypocrits!" partially because this is disingenuous - it's not really fair to throw the strongest possible version of your argument against the weakest possible version or your opponent's, since even if you're right, it just kind of makes you look like a condescending douchebag - but also, invariably, there will be a subset of conservatives that does genuinely believe that ridiculous thing

[reaperseal-archive]

ah yes let’s make this app/website better by making it impossible to navigate conveniently or get anything useful from search results