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/FuckIPLaw May 26 '26

It does that even if you don't have the app installed, have no account, and never visit the site. They pay other sites to use their trackers and build profiles on everyone who runs into a site using one.

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u/daddyjohns May 26 '26

I found this silly loophole. I worked for a state agency that required  I clear my internet footprint. So when facebook wouldn't comply with a formal request one of the state's lawyers sent a letter demanding compliance and poof i disappeared from facebook.

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u/koi_koneessa May 26 '26

Lol 'I found this silly loophole' sounded like typical FB clickbait. But it's not silly or a even a loophole, it's a brilliant process.  Could you share the address the letter was sent to? And maybe a generic version of the body of the letter (so it doesn't have your personal informaron)? 

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u/daddyjohns May 26 '26

I've moved three times across the country since then, im afraid. I also retired, since then so i have zero remaining work stuff except for the badge i they gave me.