They’re trying to get dumbass local politicians to take action. I wouldn’t dismiss this so quickly. If they convince deplorables that TikTok is spreading Dangerous CRT Transgendered Marxism then they might succeed in getting TikTok banned in 27 states.
I can confirm that it absolutely is spreading those things lol.
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Facebook Boomers vs Tik-Tok Teens is another dumb culture war us Gen-Xers can watch from the sidelines.
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Definitely a “let them fight” situation.
Really is cartoony.
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1509151904638517253
#tiktok4ever
Whole thread is good.
This has nothing to do with Facebook being evil. I just wanted to tell someone besides my wife how absolutely inane one of my FB friend’s posts are. Unimportant info on him: he’s one of my few FB friends that I’m not actually real friends with or was at least a classmate. We met as background extras, he was nice, he friended me, and that’s that. Nice guy, Trumper, but nice.
He mostly shares stupid videos. His most common “real” posts are telling everyone he is at the driving range, including a selfie and a pic of the ball bucket, and a selfie of him with a cigar in his mouth at a cigar bar.
Anyway, here was a post from this morning, one in which he included a map of the Costco he was at:
I stopped by for gas, renew my card and got a hotdog & drink. What’s sad is that sitting adjacent from me was a father and son both on their phones and not communicating. The son was watching a program.
Who fucking cares? You took the time to post this shit?
My favorite one in recent memory (fuck, it’s hard to find because I have to scroll through so many shared videos):
I get to the driving range and realized I’m
Missing my glove. After two hits with my 5 iron on the mat(which I hate), I gather my balls, talk with the pro shop attendant asking permission to take the cart key ans balls home for a quick stop.
I get back and the high schoolers are showing up ans already hitting balls. Jeez laweez. I moved once because the guy behind me didn’t move his bag and started chatting.
I move two over ans now the ladies are arriving. Now I’m sandwiches between two girls. The one in front of me is right in my face because she’s left handed. The one behind me shoots a ball right near and cross my feet. It was quite slow.
Finally a group of 4 girls decided they were done hitting balls and began talking while I was trying to concentrate on being cool.
My ball striking was average at most . I’m playing with one of my nephews on Thurs so I wanted to at least swing the club.
As I was leaving a guy who had two bags to hit asked if my spot was taken. I said no and encouraged him to move down a few slots if he wanted peace and quiet!
It was complete with selfie and photo of the ball bucket. He actually started a post once with “I’m a story teller…” hoo boy.
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This is a very common form of inane comment on Facebook. Its a weirdly passive aggressive way of indicating that the poster would be a much better father than random guy. Usually this is followed by a few “Aint that the truth!” replies from people that are in their own way pointing out how they too are superior to the Bad Father on his phone. Sad!
This is a big theme on Facebook - wouldn’t the world be better if we could just get rid of those other people over there that aren’t as good as us?
So glad I am not on Facebook.
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It’s not that it’s just bog standard “this generation bad” stuff that has literally been going on for thousands of years and the proper response is always “who raised this generation?”
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Yes, but like all the bad stuff on Facebook it’s that BUT also amplified and exaggerated and encouraged via predatory data techniques that don’t just give you a place to dump your inane antisocial comment, but then do their very best to wire you into a closed of section of Facebook where you see only those attitudes and attitudes that are algorithmically similar and here’s a little boost of dopamine from all the thumbs up your inane antisocial comment had received, maybe you’d like to try that again? Maybe you’d like to hear from Jordan Peterson on the matter?
Fuck Facebook.
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Is there a feature that allows you to mute the idiots? Would be impossible for me not to dunk on this if it was forcibly shown to me.
Yes. I muted a friend who is an anti-vaxxer and general health weirdo. For instance, she bought some device to put on her router to filter out some sort of “harmful” waves or radiation or some shit. She used to post Dr. Mercola shit all the time and I would sometimes show her actual facts. I still check her page now and then and have been happy to see that she doesn’t post that dumb shit anymore, even if she still believes it.
For six months content that should have been blocked was instead being promoted.
“Bug.”
Sure, lovingly. Lol.
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I know Metabook sucks. But I do enjoy stuff like seeing vacation pics from my first crush ever in 4th grade. It makes the world feel smaller.
What about seeing your first crush ever in 4th grade ranting about Disney pedophiles and ivermectin?
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