• Bob
    12•1 year ago

    RIGHT? It’s fucking insane that no one seems to be talking about this. I’ve been trying for years and people just roll their eyes or ignore me. What the fuck.

    And it’s completely because people don’t think about it and/or don’t understand how this stuff works. The app says “share your contacts to find your friends!” and people just go “cool ok”.

    Here’s a not-cool story: Facebook showed my friend a photo of her rapist under “people you may know”. Fucking hell.

    • @SrElsewhere
      6•1 year ago

      I get that these aren’t tech people. But there’s a serious gap in protocol that seems to give them the ol’ Whoosh.

      If I walked up on the street and asked to see somone’s dB? Lol

      If a mutual acquaintance asked for your number? I’d call you with their number.

      So would these non-techies. But put them on a machine and they seem to lose their minds.

      Psst, want me to help you? Just give me your dB. I’ll make it easy for ya.

      And they think that’s okay.

      • Bob
        2•1 year ago

        I mean there are people out there who drink their own piss because someone on Facebook said it was healthy. Obviously there’s something about information coming from an official or official-looking (or sounding) source that just makes people do weird things. It’s not any different than people falling for scams, MLMs, alternative medicine, etc.

        Edit: omg remember the guy who injected piss into his arm during an interview? lmao

        Edit 2: I FOUND IT LMAO