I mean that’s basically it. They were a huge fucking pain in the ass to deal with. Impossible to get a hold of frequently, ignored court orders, made you jump through a million hoops on the most mundane and standard shit, etc. I had a time-sensitive one once where we were trying to catch someone who was posting in real time and their law enforcement contact number was just completely unresponsive. (I think we were just trying to get ip addresses but I don’t really remember, it was a long time ago) Found him through the cell companies instead.
And they weren’t impossible to work with because they were taking some kind of principled stand. They were impossible to work with because they just sucked. There was no rhyme or reason to it. So the fact that they were johnny on the spot with the info on the teen seeking an abortion is lol.
Proof: My boss has been running a campaign for almost a year. He’s tried over and over to get his Facebook page verified (blue check). Literally every other week we’d be emailing trying to get them to move.
Monday (as in, yesterday) he attended a legislative conference in Sacramento where a rep from Meta was also attending. Talked to him about the verification, asked if he could speed it along.
In a 2015 overview, Pew found that 71% of teens ages 13 to 17 used Facebook. It easily beat out platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter among that demographic.But 2022 paints a very different picture of the social media landscape.The share of 13- to 17-year-olds who said they use Facebook dropped from 71% in the 2015 study to 32% today,
Think you overestimate the amount of people that have access to production data in a cloud company. I work in a large cloud company and it is really restricted these days. Not because they actually care about privacy but more because the chances of getting hacked and the financial consequences of that is proportional to the amount of people having access to production servers and data. It really changed a lot in the last 5 years. EU GDPR made a big difference.
I am still on Facebook just so I can communicate with my local farmers co-op which is one of those tiny organizations that can’t afford a website. My Facebook is 1% posts from the farmers (oh good, we’re getting zucchini this week!) and 99% spam images of alt right men’s rights quotes and loopy Inspirational quotes about relationships. The user experience on Facebook is pure garbage if you aren’t addicted to that trash. It is kind of funny (scary?) that if Facebook knows nothing about you then its go to option for getting info from you is to poke your alt right toxic masculinity centers. The algorithm must dictate that is the highest performing random attempt to drag you into their toxic scrolling nightmare.
I think its because I don’t do any activity on Facebook other than get updates from my farmers co-op. When Facebook needs to guess, it tries its most popular stuff. Which is toxic garbage.
Sure could be. They’re a pretty generic cross section of Facebook users though. Mostly older white folks.
Some quick research shows that this stuff is actually very prevalent. There are even guides online for the “influencer” crowd about how to manipulate the Facebook algorithm to get more people to click on more Facebook posts by using “viral quotes” images. Apparently this is a highly effective way to get more and more people to look at and “like” your posts, and then you record that as “traffic” for your brand.
Here’s a typical vapid nonsense image that floods my Facebook in the absence of any other “real” content because I don’t follow anybody.
Apparently Facebook users absolutely eat this shit up. Stuff like this and the mens’ rights stuff have got to be EXTREMELY addictive to people whose lives kind of suck and they are absolutely desperate to pin the blame on someone else. I think that unless you feed the Facebook algorithm some information about other preferences, you’re going to get a lot of this stuff. But I don’t think the algorithm is that hard to beat. If you “like” one post about baseball or something you’ll probably get 1,000 baseball things from the Almighty Algorithm. Or you’ll get vapid viral quotes over an image of Mickey Mantle instead of Leo D.
I clicked on a vaguely-titled sponsored post to see what it would be about. It took me to a site spoofing NBC News, that’s shilling CBD gummies they claim are made by David Suziki
“I am not giving in to this ‘Greedy Fraud’. When I started this whole thing back in 2018, it really was just a part time passion project and a way for me to give back. After being given so much, I figured there was no better time to make Tranquileafz CBD Gummies available to everyone, as it can help thousands of people experience life pain-free and live much happier lives.”
His product, Tranquileafz CBD Gummies , has been flying off the shelves within minutes and David Suzuki says his number one struggle as CEO is being able to keep up with demand. His CBD wellness line is 90% cheaper and five times more effective than those being offered by Pfizer and other “Big Pharma” companies.
One of my million side hobbies is fucking with meta’s feed algorithm. I have some crazy things happen, but I have no idea how to interpret them. I also get slammed with the alt right stuff occasionally.
my biggest gripe is that I effectively get zero updates from IRL people. I could tell they boinked something recently there, because I just posted the cutest pic of my cat I’ve ever taken across my social accounts and only like 2 followers liked it,
compared to the 20+ I typically get. I dont think I’m shadowbanned either because I still occasionally get viral comments on that account.
I would strongly disagree that Facebook is 99% garbage though, I get quite a lot of value out of support groups on there, and the hobby pages are actually quite good and you can find just about any interest you can imagine filled with thousands of people that post all day every day
Just to clarify, what I was saying is that 99% of Facebook is garbage IF you don’t find and join those specific, real world support and hobby groups and get content that you actually want. I’m talking about the default junk that Facebook throws at you to try to gauge what kind of deplorable profile it can assign to you. Today Facebook wants me to be angry because (I think) the 2022 Chevy Trailblazer is too girly and not rough and tough like Real Men in the 1980s.
really though meta’s ai mod algorithm is clearly deplorable - people can make comments like this (this is like a 3/10 of the stuff i see and used to report):
nothing happens even though while not using any hate speech or anything like that, I think it’s clearly against the community guidelines. however, if I even hint at calling someone stupid, or hurt a deplorable’s fee fee’s in any way, I catch a 30 day ban.
the really funny part is, of course, deplorables think they’re the persecuted ones.
early on I thought I could get away with saying indirect stuff like “let’s face it, you’re not getting into harvard any time soon” and the like but nah, ban
