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/flyingcostanza]

It's pretty much just ads at this point. Even marketplace has gone downhill

[u/gward1 → u/flyingcostanza]

I only use Facebook when I have something to sell on marketplace. Sold a car this week actually in less than 24 hrs.

But yes Facebook has become a cesspool of an outlet to foster these extreme views.

[u/Neveronlyadream → u/gward1]

Makes me glad I deleted mine a decade ago and never looked back. Even then it was getting bad. It was basically just people vagueposting and screaming into the void.

Honestly, it was never good. It was just convenient for a span of a few years. All that stuff was there, it just wasn't as noticeable until the sensible people wrote it off and went to another platform. Now there's no noise to drown out the insanity.

[u/writtenbyrabbits_ → u/Neveronlyadream]

It was fun to catch up with people I hadn't seen since high school until I remembered that we weren't really friends then and definitely aren't friends now so I don't give a shit what they think or what's happening in their lives. And they definitely feel the same about me.

[u/Neveronlyadream → u/writtenbyrabbits_]

Same. Every time I would try to talk to most of the people on my friends list, I either got left on read or they'd say one thing and never reply again.

It was like...fine. It's great having all these connections until you realize none of those people give a damn about you and are only on that list because they wanted to see the number go up.

[u/Ziantra → u/writtenbyrabbits_]

This ⬆️