Social media
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I've only ever used FB but I have a very small friends list (less than 50) which consists solely of family and people I am in-person friends with. Everything I do and post is "private to friends only". We use it strictly to keep in touch with each other and share what's going on. We keep it rather civilized and avoid the subjects that we know, from our personal contact, tend to annoy each other. That served me well for many years, but the past 6 months or so ... FB is getting way too aggressive in the ads they keep throwing in my feed. The content itself isn't bad, and I see why they think I might like this s*$t, given my activity but ... enough already. I can always tell when my "don't show me this crap" response to every ad starts to wear off every month or so. 3 weeks of a reasonable feed and then a week of having to block all the crap. Unfortunately, this is the simplest way to keep in touch with the folks who have moved away.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
When I turned 50 FB decided I am a pervert and started sending me ads to make it with 20 year old girls. I shared a picture of people dressed in pumpkins and got a ban for nudity but I get ads for insane s3x toys. My wife threw me out 3 years ago and I held it together on the basis I visit every few weeks. I use FB to talk to her and used it this morning to apply to join a band. I stopped using FB seriously 10 years ago when they allowed a far right wing gang to stalk and threaten my kids. I just kind of prod at it now
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I quit Twitter when it became X. But I keep Facebook. It helps me normalize my strange hobbies. I can show my wife a photo of somebody with a closet full of (24) unicycles and explain that only having 5 isn't a big deal. Same thing with my canoe/kayak addition. I also use it to connect to community events to get in and out. As a general rule, I block any group that was shared in a post. This keeps my feed clean(er). I really only want original content from my friends and family.
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That's genius :) I have about $3000 worth of lego and 10 guitars but in my defence my wife stopped living with me years ago
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Yes, but I'm very proactive in regards of who I follow and I use the block feature a lot. I will often start following someone for a few weeks/months and then just block them after a while. I'm very much left leaning, never had an issue with twitter; maybe I'm just not an activist. I'm still on twitter. I don't follow a lot of political things, so I don't get the crazy stuff. It's still a good tool for keeping track of the general news instead of needed to browse a dozen of different news sites. I'm using Facebook a lot less than before, seems my feed is mostly advertisement these days or unrelated accounts and only a handful of people in my (real life) friend list is active. Same for Instagram, I only follow a few people with similar interests (food and travel) and maybe 4, 5 local celebrities. Reddit is probably the only "social media" I use frequently (mostly for food and travel and other hobbies).
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Maximilien wrote:
I'm very much left leaning, never had an issue with twitter; maybe I'm just not an activist.
Wow, you must keep it to yourself. I was banned for being left wing BEFORE Elon took over, then again after.
Maximilien wrote:
Reddit is probably the only "social media" I use frequently (mostly for food and travel and other hobbies).
They banned me in a day LOL. So I never went back.
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LinkedIn is good, as far as I am concerned. In a moment of madness a few weeks ago I joined Facebook, and I am getting forty or fifty aggravating emails/notifications a day. :( I am quitting today.
you can turn off email notifications. I only look at linkedin when I need work
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Christian Graus wrote:
Twitter permanently banned me for being politely left wing
Find that hard to believe man. It's more open now than it used to be.
Christian Graus wrote:
and Facebook has me on constant bans because they push things I don't agree with onto my feed and I try to politely discuss them from time to time
FB on a downward spiral. They ban everyone for sneezing.
Christian Graus wrote:
Add a constantly flow of fake accounts trying to romance scam me, and I'm pretty much done
Yeah man, totally agree social media has gotten worse. People forgot how to be people ya know. Too much time inside. Long time no see btw.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Find that hard to believe man. It's more open now than it used to be.
No, it's more right leaning. It allows more violent hate speech. I got banned for politely telling hate pages the truth about trans kids (for example that they can't access surgery). I didn't argue. I simply corrected hate, There's TONS of Nazis, I ran into open Nazis all the time. That's who it's more open to
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
FB on a downward spiral. They ban everyone for sneezing.
Basically. I've had bans for saying men are silly. I got a ban for saying rape is bad. Hate speech against straight white men seems to be what they aggressively target the most. I reported someone openly saying they want to kill all gays and FB said that was allowed
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Yeah man, totally agree social media has gotten worse. People forgot how to be people ya know. Too much time inside.
The world is just less safe. I get scam calls all the time. I lecture my old dad all the time on ways to stay safe
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Long time no see btw.
Thanks. It just occurred to me there's a place I can chat to people and not get banned :)
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Is anyone else giving up on social media. Twitter permanently banned me for being politely left wing, and Facebook has me on constant bans because they push things I don't agree with onto my feed and I try to politely discuss them from time to time. Add a constantly flow of fake accounts trying to romance scam me, and I'm pretty much done
Not yet, but I'm about to. Pr0n sites are far more entertaining anyway, and occasionally educational. ;)
Will Rogers never met me.
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Not yet, but I'm about to. Pr0n sites are far more entertaining anyway, and occasionally educational. ;)
Will Rogers never met me.
LOL!! My wife pushed me into an open marriage and after that, I still don't mind s3x but I'm not super motivated by it
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That's genius :) I have about $3000 worth of lego and 10 guitars but in my defence my wife stopped living with me years ago
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I have about $3000 worth of lego Stop now. I started again during Covid and am now up to $30,000 :sigh:
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly "I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!" Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
I live with my elderly dad, not my wife. Lego is my one stress relief. Building the AT&T walker right now. My estimate is low because I started buying knock off lego, mostly because I got sick of all the missing pieces. Also I can get some out of print sets, like the Death Star. I have about 70k worth of vinyl :)
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Is anyone else giving up on social media. Twitter permanently banned me for being politely left wing, and Facebook has me on constant bans because they push things I don't agree with onto my feed and I try to politely discuss them from time to time. Add a constantly flow of fake accounts trying to romance scam me, and I'm pretty much done
Yes, I pulled out of Farcebook about 4 years ago. I've never seen the point of Twitter, what a waste of everyone's time!
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I quit FB about 2 years ago and don't miss them a bit. I wasn't on any of the others so there is no problem there! Got to be very confrontational, if you don't agree with me I'll unfriend you.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
Got to be very confrontational, if you don't agree with me I'll unfriend you.
What's the problem with the trash taking itself out? :laugh: Twitter? I have the theory that every tweet sent has the potential to reduce IQ. The people who post frequently (and vehemently) on Twitter (X) are strong evidence in favor this theory, although many didn't have a lot to start with. And the individual posts should be called "twits", not "tweets", as "twit" is a far more fitting name.
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When I turned 50 FB decided I am a pervert and started sending me ads to make it with 20 year old girls. I shared a picture of people dressed in pumpkins and got a ban for nudity but I get ads for insane s3x toys. My wife threw me out 3 years ago and I held it together on the basis I visit every few weeks. I use FB to talk to her and used it this morning to apply to join a band. I stopped using FB seriously 10 years ago when they allowed a far right wing gang to stalk and threaten my kids. I just kind of prod at it now
I have a collection of screenshots from Walmart ads of adult toys that would make a "insert person of choice here" blush. I think it's partly my fault though. I started screwing with their ad algorithms by clicking on everything to see what would happen. :laugh: My latest is checking the Walmart price of Sriracha daily as it shows up in my feed to watch the prices and how that changes. Hint, up on the weekends, down during the week. Sidenote, I never shop at Walmart.
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I've only ever used FB but I have a very small friends list (less than 50) which consists solely of family and people I am in-person friends with. Everything I do and post is "private to friends only". We use it strictly to keep in touch with each other and share what's going on. We keep it rather civilized and avoid the subjects that we know, from our personal contact, tend to annoy each other. That served me well for many years, but the past 6 months or so ... FB is getting way too aggressive in the ads they keep throwing in my feed. The content itself isn't bad, and I see why they think I might like this s*$t, given my activity but ... enough already. I can always tell when my "don't show me this crap" response to every ad starts to wear off every month or so. 3 weeks of a reasonable feed and then a week of having to block all the crap. Unfortunately, this is the simplest way to keep in touch with the folks who have moved away.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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I have about $3000 worth of lego Stop now. I started again during Covid and am now up to $30,000 :sigh:
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly "I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!" Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
I loved Lego as a kid, and keep reading about adults still using them as a hobby. I've often thought to myself, wouldn't it be fun if I went back to that myself.
Andy_L_J wrote:
and am now up to $30,000
...but now you've singlehandedly convinced me not to go down that path. :-) Years ago I used to play The Sims 2, not for the gameplay, but because of the building opportunities the game engine presented. I had houses that had such design complexity they pushed the game, I believe, to its limits, but even then, I thought it was too restrictive. I could never get into Sims 3, and never tried Sims 4. "Real" home building software is just too complex for my liking. I think there's a real need for some creative outlet. Lego might fulfill that, to some extent, but it just gets crazy expensive if you're serious about it. I've seen some software decades ago that let you work with virtual Lego, so to speak, but found the controls to be way too difficult to be useful.
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Not yet, but I'm about to. Pr0n sites are far more entertaining anyway, and occasionally educational. ;)
Will Rogers never met me.
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Is anyone else giving up on social media. Twitter permanently banned me for being politely left wing, and Facebook has me on constant bans because they push things I don't agree with onto my feed and I try to politely discuss them from time to time. Add a constantly flow of fake accounts trying to romance scam me, and I'm pretty much done
I deleted my Twitter account in early 2021 (or late 2020?). Never had Facebook, but had Instagram - deleted it at the same time. (Facebook does too much tracking, hence the Insta deletion.) I have a Tumblr account where I keep a number of quotes I’ve liked over the years. Can’t say I like the energy many people give off on those platforms. While there are some good ideas and thoughts put out there, there’s just too much idiocy and anger.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Find that hard to believe man. It's more open now than it used to be.
No, it's more right leaning. It allows more violent hate speech. I got banned for politely telling hate pages the truth about trans kids (for example that they can't access surgery). I didn't argue. I simply corrected hate, There's TONS of Nazis, I ran into open Nazis all the time. That's who it's more open to
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
FB on a downward spiral. They ban everyone for sneezing.
Basically. I've had bans for saying men are silly. I got a ban for saying rape is bad. Hate speech against straight white men seems to be what they aggressively target the most. I reported someone openly saying they want to kill all gays and FB said that was allowed
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Yeah man, totally agree social media has gotten worse. People forgot how to be people ya know. Too much time inside.
The world is just less safe. I get scam calls all the time. I lecture my old dad all the time on ways to stay safe
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Long time no see btw.
Thanks. It just occurred to me there's a place I can chat to people and not get banned :)
Christian Graus wrote:
No, it's more right leaning. It allows more violent hate speech. I got banned for politely telling hate pages the truth about trans kids (for example that they can't access surgery). I didn't argue. I simply corrected hate, There's TONS of Nazis, I ran into open Nazis all the time. That's who it's more open to
Go figure. From my perspective, it allows silly nonsense and over-sensitivity and shuns anyone that has an opposing opinion. Before its recent backlash it got really bad. They've backed off a little. Just so we're on the same page, I don't define "hate speech" as not using someone's pronouns. Not sure who you consider a Nazi btw, assuming we're intelligent enough to not trust the media to tell us who is.
Christian Graus wrote:
Basically. I've had bans for saying men are silly. I got a ban for saying rape is bad. Hate speech against straight white men seems to be what they aggressively target the most. I reported someone openly saying they want to kill all gays and FB said that was allowed
Well, to be fair... that is racist. Not that I think people should be censored at all as I believe in freedom of speech, mind you.
Christian Graus wrote:
The world is just less safe. I get scam calls all the time. I lecture my old dad all the time on ways to stay safe
At least we agree on this. :laugh: The question is... who's to blame for this? Please don't say Trump though; we're supposed to be smarter than the brainwashing TV. I think a lot of this stems from us spending less time outside and talking to other humans, as simple as that may seem.
Christian Graus wrote:
Thanks. It just occurred to me there's a place I can chat to people and not get banned
Well, it's CP so you know... gotta weed out the um... bad stuff. Some people on here still only want to spread poopyness. :laugh: Banning solves nothing though. Maybe. I've blocked people before that were just looking to argue, and that's like a form a banning I guess. But for people that can hold a conversation, it only takes humanity backwards.
Jeremy Falcon
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Is anyone else giving up on social media. Twitter permanently banned me for being politely left wing, and Facebook has me on constant bans because they push things I don't agree with onto my feed and I try to politely discuss them from time to time. Add a constantly flow of fake accounts trying to romance scam me, and I'm pretty much done
Tribel.com seems to be mainly left wing, fwiw. I'm enjoying mastodon a lot, but picking a home server aligned to one of your interests can be important. If you go with one of the huge servers your local feed will be plastered with lots of things you aren't interested in. You can join several servers for different interests, and transfer your account if you find one you like more. I'm still on fb for a couple groups, and friends that are still on there, but mastodon is an entirely different world. No algorithm pushing ads and clickbait, no romance scam friend requests. People tend to have interesting discussions instead of just posting memes. Another thing to look at is the moderation policy on different servers. The good news is that you're likely to be dealing with a real human instead of an idiot algorithm.
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dandy72 wrote:
I never done any social media, and I'm not missing what I've never had...
Ditto.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Is anyone else giving up on social media. Twitter permanently banned me for being politely left wing, and Facebook has me on constant bans because they push things I don't agree with onto my feed and I try to politely discuss them from time to time. Add a constantly flow of fake accounts trying to romance scam me, and I'm pretty much done
I haven't exactly quit twitter/X or Facebook but I have gone back to using as I saw them in the beginning. Facebook is a modernish phonebook. Twitter/X is little more than a broadcasted SMS service. So, if people truly want to communicate with me, there's always a way to ask for my phone number in person, and you have the option of calling, texting or setting up a one to one meeting at a cafe for a serious discussion (or facetime me if you're more than 600 km away by land) As for news...I have a wealth of online newspapers at my disposal.