facebook, I started a fake account

[DA-WOODY]

I'm shocked at what I found, it's far worse than I ever expected.

Had an account when it first started,

Main points:

1. 
   
2. That most of the posts in legitimate groups are clearly the left hand side of the IQ bell curve, silly stupid, unnecessary junk.
3. 
   
4. But the most incredible thing, is the shutting down of any dissenting views, it's all fake Happy/Happy bullshit when what might actually help people is missing. Alternate voices are quickly filtered out.

On this an other forums we have seen the expression "I feel dumber for having read that." Well, this is real, I doo feel dumber for the experience , it's truly shocking stuff.

Back to SA ???????

 

[Goodvibes]

It takes about 15 minutes in the security tab to lock down an account to the point where you don't get deluged with horseshit or friend requests. I get very little AI generated crap in my feed. and if someone I actually know starts spouting a lotta garbage, the "don't follow" button works very well.

I use it for alumni groups, sailing and skiing stuff and taking vitriolic field trips to a wide variety of politicians pages

That's 14 more minutes than I intend to invest in having these cunts make money from me.

 

[ShortForBob]

I'm shocked at what I found, it's far worse than I ever expected.

Had an account when it first started, bailed after it annoyed me. I was a professional at the time and besides the bullshit, had concerns that it could reflect on my work. Killed the account a bit over year later.

Decades later, my motorcycle interest groups ignorantly do business on facebook. There are a lot of 'Tradies' that know no other form of communication. So I grabbed a gmail email address and used that to make a facebook account. There were no impediment to doing that as all they want is you mobile phone number anyway.

What I found has shocked me, I knew of the effect it was having on the community but the degree is truly scary.

Main points:

1. Competely automated pages and accounts on specialist subjects like 'Birds' or 'Aircraft' designed to just harvest eyeballs for a few seconds. Look like they are based in eastern Europe or Africa to monetize Clicks somehow.
2. Religious subjects that just post computer generated images of someone called Jesus, followed by bot comments that often are just one word 'Amazing' or 'Praise God". WTF?
3. Sicko military groups reminiscing about shooting gooks in Vietnam, a war that was a disgrace and defeat.
4. You cannot block millions of groups, they keep coming, notifications in your face.
5. That most of the posts in legitimate groups are clearly the left hand side of the IQ bell curve, silly stupid, unnecessary junk.
6. The influencers of course, what it is all about after all, I expected that but the degree of the deception is extreme. Anybody know where I can find a plumber?
7. But the most incredible thing, is the shutting down of any dissenting views, it's all fake Happy/Happy bullshit when what might actually help people is missing. Alternate voices are quickly filtered out.

I have come to the conclusion that a large percentage of the accounts on facebook are fake. Bots, influencers. Forget Musk's concerns about Twitter fakes, this is big Daddy. And they do not care, they want the numbers. Simple to work out that the Name I supplied does not match the mandatory phone number I supplied to get the authorization number sent to a Youtube app.

On this an other forums we have seen the expression "I feel dumber for having read that." Well, this is real, I doo feel dumber for the experience of connecting to facebook, it's truly shocking stuff.

Privacy settings are your friend. It's good for keeping in touch with actual friends and the video calls when I'm OS . I don't get anything sent to me so though I know the stuff and nonsense is there, i never see any of it.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Privacy settings are your friend. It's good for keeping in touch with actual friends and the video calls when I'm OS . I don't get anything sent to me so though I know the stuff and nonsense is there, i never see any of it.

Pssst, he juste wantnes to be outraaged.

 

[CondslanWastel]

I'm shocked at what I found, it's far worse than I ever expected.

Had an account when it first started, bailed after it annoyed me. I was a professional at the time and besides the bullshit, had concerns that it could reflect on my work. Killed the account a bit over year later.

Decades later, my motorcycle interest groups ignorantly do business on facebook. There are a lot of 'Tradies' that know no other form of communication. So I grabbed a gmail email address and used that to make a facebook account. There were no impediment to doing that as all they want is you mobile phone number anyway.

What I found has shocked me, I knew of the effect it was having on the community but the degree is truly scary.

Main points:

1. Competely automated pages and accounts on specialist subjects like 'Birds' or 'Aircraft' designed to just harvest eyeballs for a few seconds. Look like they are based in eastern Europe or Africa to monetize Clicks somehow.
2. Religious subjects that just post computer generated images of someone called Jesus, followed by bot comments that often are just one word 'Amazing' or 'Praise God". WTF?
3. Sicko military groups reminiscing about shooting gooks in Vietnam, a war that was a disgrace and defeat.
4. You cannot block millions of groups, they keep coming, notifications in your face.
5. That most of the posts in legitimate groups are clearly the left hand side of the IQ bell curve, silly stupid, unnecessary junk.
6. The influencers of course, what it is all about after all, I expected that but the degree of the deception is extreme. Anybody know where I can find a plumber?
7. But the most incredible thing, is the shutting down of any dissenting views, it's all fake Happy/Happy bullshit when what might actually help people is missing. Alternate voices are quickly filtered out.

I have come to the conclusion that a large percentage of the accounts on facebook are fake. Bots, influencers. Forget Musk's concerns about Twitter fakes, this is big Daddy. And they do not care, they want the numbers. Simple to work out that the Name I supplied does not match the mandatory phone number I supplied to get the authorization number sent to a Youtube app.

On this an other forums we have seen the expression "I feel dumber for having read that." Well, this is real, I doo feel dumber for the experience of connecting to facebook, it's truly shocking stuff.

Again.... I also faced it

 

[Voiled]

I got on Facebook for the first time almost exactly one year ago. I was at first deluged with a bunch of shit, but then it became clear that you can train it by being selective about who you “friend”, what you “like”, and what to “stop seeing.” I did that in spades and now it is quite a pleasant and educational experience.

Facebook will be extremely happy you trained the already very clear profile they have to be even more detailed.

 

[ShortForBob]

Easiest way is to just not open any of their suggestions or view any of their "offerings" open marketplace or any of that crap.
Just use it for communicating.
Remember the days when international phone calls cost half your weeks wages?
We can talk and see our kids and friends for free and Mr Z gets zero

 

[veni vidi vici]

Give it to remus

I think once he had his cataracts removed after returning from his beaching in Vietnam and could actually see the enormous ocean he got weak in the knees.

 

[Marty Gingras]

Facebook will be extremely happy you trained the already very clear profile they have to be even more detailed.

It is what it is.

 

[shaggy]

Mrs PB uses Marketplace a bit as well. We've saved a ton on money buying perfectly good things at bargain basement prices that people are just tired of. A big wood framed mirror for the guest bedroom. Hundreds of dollars at Pottery Barn. We got it for $30. One very little scrape that I touched up and you cannot even see it. We've sold a few things as well. I like the notion someone else will repurpose something rather than just toss it.

Just pulled an oak bead frame from a designer. they were setting up an air bnb for the Super Bowl. Bed did not fit her "design" and she could not return. $100 for a $500-1000 bed. Good stuff. We are refurnishing the MIL house so Wifie has found some steals on there...

 

[bmiller]

Isn't the title of this thread representative of what is wrong with shit like facebook?

 

[Goodvibes]

Privacy settings are your friend. It's good for keeping in touch with actual friends and the video calls when I'm OS . I don't get anything sent to me so though I know the stuff and nonsense is there, i never see any of it.

Looks like I did not explain myself well. It's not just unfiltered content it is being exposed to the depth of bullshit and dumbness.

It seeing why the world is so fucked. It is seeing the chattering masses at work.

 

[Snaggletooth]

You tune into 'Stupide Centralle' then wondere "why is evreyoune so stupide ?"

troubelleng....

 

[ShortForBob]

I think what Rando might be trying to say is that he's heard that FB is poisoning the people of the planet, he's created a fake account to look himself and is alarmed by what he's seeing.
Many people don't really understand how algorithms work and it is alarming how people can get sucked down into the weird world of "influencers" and insane conspiracy theories and effectively brainwashed even by innocently searching the "market place" or viewing the the stupid things they "randomly select" you to "watch"
I tried to explain this to my friend who fell down the covid denial hole, she couldn't understand that the more she clicked on the hysterical stuff, the more she got sent.

And she was once a reasonably intelligent, non religious, left leaning teacher.

 

[veni vidi vici]

I think what Rando might be trying to say is that he's heard that FB is poisoning the people of the planet, he's created a fake account to look himself and is alarmed by what he's seeing.
Many people don't really understand how algorithms work and it is alarming how people can get sucked down into the weird world of "influencers" and insane conspiracy theories and effectively brainwashed even by innocently searching the "market place" or viewing the the stupid things they "randomly select" you to "watch"
I tried to explain this to my friend who fell down the covid denial hole, she couldn't understand that the more she clicked on the hysterical stuff, the more she got sent.

And she was once a reasonably intelligent, non religious, left leaning teacher.

and yet you can see none of the above in yourself

 

[ShortForBob]

and yet you can see none of the above in yourself

Ah, very clever.

 

[Goodvibes]

You tune into 'Stupide Centralle' then wondere "why is evreyoune so stupide ?"

troubelleng....

But even the dumbest can spell better than you do.

The fucking point being ... that the stupid chattering masses have never had their dumb as fuk minds plugged into a firehose blasting bullshit 24x7 before.

But I guess you have to wider context to understand that.

For most of my life I have, (without really thinking about it) thought that the main difference between the educated and non, was that the educated put in the effort, had the opportunity etc. But after looking at fakebook, disappointingly there appears to be a more fundamental issue here. That there really are 49% of the population of below average intelligence, plugged into algorithms that are smarter than they are.

 

[Goodvibes]

Isn't the title of this thread representative of what is wrong with shit like facebook?

what is insidious, is that I had to make that account to find out what the fuck was happening in a club I belong to.

 

[Goodvibes]

and yet you can see none of the above in yourself

talking about hypocrites and fuckwits. When your doctor works out what that lump is, are you going to tell him his expensive treatment is a scam the same a vaccines are?

 

[The Dark Knight]

WOW you created a fake account on Facebook. How exciting.

How many fake accounts have you created on SA so far?