Facebook

“the groups started to get beggars and requests for money and donations, and nobody trusts the groups or the profiles”

“Facebook pages and posts espousing these viewpoints (using sensationalized or completely fictional justifications) were then amplified by the algorithm.”

“Yeah same can be said for Facebook and WhatsApp that Durov vehemently claims should not be trusted with user's data.”

“it switched from being something that I could choose to use to the algorithm force injecting stuff into my feed”

“Learning about their tracking web browsing through WebRTC ports from the apps, you have a point on users not knowingly providing that.”

“I regularly get spammed with "suitable single women" as friend suggestions by Meta. I'm not single, but as dating suggestions go, they're actually not half bad!”

“systematically and deliberately doing everything their psychologist/behavior economists could do to make sure kids were addicted to the product”

“FB/Instagram will shove down infinite scroll and stories/reels/updates of people/entities you can care less about.”

“I removed all friends years ago. After I read about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I quit, but I still need an account for a few groups I moderate.”

“Facebook, etc. has BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH of software engineers, designers, psychologists making absolutely damn sure that little Alice & Bob keep their nice little eyes glued”

“There's still a community for any subject on both Facebook and Instagram except it's all buried under spam and bad intentions.”

“Facebook is pretty close to exactly what you're talking about. They do a lot of work to identify real people and de-prioritize spam/bots.”

“"the algorithm" (of Twitter/X, FB, Instagram, YouTube, Google, everyone) has propagandising biases that damage society”

“The early iterations of Facebook, just like the early iterations of most internet community and social platforms legitimately brought and kept people together”

“The advertising-based, surveilllance-through-intermediation "business model" of these third party intermediary companies depends on monitoring and learning as much about internet users as possible”

“Understanding the potential market that could be created and turning down a $1B acquisition from Yahoo 20-years ago, at the time, seemed insane.”

“The network has all this value baked in, but they'll have to look past its obsession with ads and slop.”

“I use it all the time. Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and we were reminiscing about visiting another friend's house”

“They've built the most valuable human connection network ever and then added a misaligned algorithm on it.”

“now it seems that friends have been replaced with followers, and instead of peer to peer connections of a social network, we have one to many broadcast of social media”

“If Facebook were designed with a different set of incentives that prioritized the user, fostered positive engagement, and better respected individual's privacy”

“Would I let them be on Facebook of 2006, when you were just connected to your friends and family, and not influencers and "the algorithm?" Sure!”

“It wasn't addictive, I used it for 15 minutes at the end of the day to catch up with what foreign family was doing”

“Facebook really did help people stay in touch with friends and family before replacing it with the Feed of Rage.”

“I distinctly remember the period when they did not and when I recommended them to my entire social circle”

“Facebook has a bigger problem - I'm a millennial, far closer to a middle aged man than to a teenager, and I don't want to be on Facebook because it's so full of garbage.”

“News feed is basically garbage, but the groups and marketplace is worth keeping my freemium subscription.”

“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.”

“I find it pretty good in group stuff. I just have to filter out all the ai / porn slop that goes into my feed.”

“My facebook page, which is where I have friended everyone I met between like 2004 and 2017 is absolute garbage.”

“What’s left is a feed with pictures of my friends and family, important news about what’s going on in their lives”

“I remember early, invite-only Facebook before it got heavily monetized and it was such an amazing tool to bring people together”

“I dislike pretty much everything else on there though, especially all the stupid videos and stuff it shows.”

“compared to something like email, the previous standard for most people, Facebook was an unbelievable step forward”

“It's become a defacto forum for a lot of local niche stuff like clubs, schools, non profits, and other special interest groups.”

“I'm mostly still on FB at all for the acquaintance-level connections to things like neighbourhood, church, and hobby communities.”

“It's scary how good these algorithms have become, I often only want to look up something related to the club and end up being roped into 1h of doomscrolling.”

“Facebook was slick and shiny and easy. The real name policy made it super easy to connect with people you met IRL.”

“Even super complex SPAs like Facebook let me for the most part right click new tab to create a new instance while preserving the old one.”

“It has helped me to connect with people, it helped me to partially break out of my (disability-inflicted) social isolation.”