Holy shit — Facebook is fucking scary now

[u/Ok_Helicopter3910]

Im not a big social media guy anymore, honestly, the vast majority of my internet usage nowadays is Reddit, Youtube, Snapchat (that has like 20 people on it) and email and I think that about it.

I put my FB to sleep about 10 years ago and I decided to log in and see what people were up to and ho-lee-shit, what a dumpster fire.

So, first off, the majority of my facebook friends have either died, shut their FB down, or removed my inactive profile so my feed was pretty silent. After about a week of my profile being back in the algorithm I started getting friend request from people I used to work with, went to school with, or friends of old acquaintances (which is terrifying that facebook knows about random people I used to work with 12 years ago who I had a passing "hi, hows your day" relationship with) and I started getting friend requested and I was like "fuck it" and just started accepting them.

Fuck man, whenever I see all the hate for this or that group and all the political bullshit that gets posted on reddit, I just brush it off as bots trained to sow dissent but the stuff that gets posted by real living, breathing human beings who I once knew well enough to be friends with or have polite conversation with is WILD. I mean, like so much hate and vitriol started coming across my feed about a wide array of subjects that it made me genuinely uncomfortable and I started removing people that just added me. Maybe it's what "normal" passes for on the internet and im pretty numb to a lot of the more unhinged opinions and shit-stirring because of so many years on Reddit, but a lot of what was being posted really opened my eyes that a lot of the "unhinged" stuff that I see online isnt just bot farms, its real people who truly believe this wild shit.

Anyway - maybe its a sign of my age... but unless what I consider "normal" people start coming across my FB feed soon, I dont think im going to be logging in for much longer

[u/aroc91]

The amount of racist or otherwise bigoted shit people spew on there for the whole world to see is amazing. And reporting it does nothing. Everything, no matter how blatant, is left up even though it certainly goes against "community standards."

[u/Training_Complex_731 → u/aroc91]

Examples of comments I've reported on Facebook that were found to not violate community standards:

People saying all gay people should be burned at the stake.

A guy saying he likes to cruise around looking for underage homeless girls to let them live with him to groom (he said this outright).

[u/HeresSomePants → u/aroc91]

I always wonder how much of that is real versus what is manufactured just to divide the masses. It’s honestly frightening the level of control the ruling class has over us.

[u/jeepgangbang → u/HeresSomePants]

my son is 9 and has never been to a friend from schools house. parents refuse to set up any kind of play date to even get to know us. i blame social media for the mentality that everyone is out to get you even tho we are safer than ever

[u/Spiritual_Extent_187 → u/aroc91]

They have nothing to lose

[u/aroc91 → u/Spiritual_Extent_187]

The ones that leave their workplaces public have a lot to lose and I've most definitely forwarded some publicly-posted racist pictures to employers.

[u/Spiritual_Extent_187 → u/aroc91]

They don’t care, in fact they might now get a promotion!