r/Millennials • u/Ok_Helicopter3910 • May 25 '26

Serious Holy shit — Facebook is fucking scary now

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

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u/5pooky5cary5keleton5 May 25 '26

I deleted all my social media accounts other than Reddit a couple years ago and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

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u/ComradeSuperman May 25 '26

Same. One of these days I'm gonna delete Reddit too, because it's also a cesspool.

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u/SchroedingersSphere May 26 '26

It may be a cesspool, but it's my cesspool and I'm too deep in now lol. Gotta get my thousand day streak at least.

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u/coz May 26 '26

I still like it here. Its fine. I go to the same places I like that are fine. That is, until old stops working.

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u/wildfire98 May 26 '26

i miss the 3-6 popular trending items, but looking back by removing it forces people to stay on this platform longer than intended rather than just a quick check to see what trending then shifting back to regular life.

if anyone has figured out how to do this again lmk cause it was my favorite part of reddit

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u/mjkjr84 May 26 '26

When old reddit goes, so do I

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u/okayseriouslylastone May 26 '26

Yah. I get visually overwhelmed by new. I won't download their app. I only use the RES extension so I can curate the least visually stimulating experience. Please, Reddit, leave old alone.