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Because everything is fed to marketers, AI, megacorps.
I write about enjoying a show and suddenly I get ads about movie theaters, the food in the show, traveling to where they were, everything.
I ain’t sharing shit under my name now.
It’s weird how difficult it is to leave Facebook if you want to stay connected. None of the alternatives has enough traction that you could recreate your social network on there and get the thing that Facebook was originally made for: keeping in touch with people you know.
I solved this by just texting the folks I know to keep in touch. If They dont text back, then it wasnt really a relationship worth having was it
I swear some folks only keep you around on social media so you can upvote(or whatever) on thier posts.
If everyone was doing that I’d be isolated as fuck because without a lot of opportunities I just forget about others…
I would suggest its not healthy to stay connected.
you could just text them and have actual relationships instead of whatever facebook is.
Wasn’t Facebook originally made for judging the subjective attractiveness of women?
Facebook and all Meta properties are just stalking tools.
Yes and no, I believe. That’s what it was used for and advertised on campus, but the hook was having a virtual copy of the yearbook, so you could connect with people that you would have otherwise only seen at reunions after college was over.
What a wild ride… First it was a site for ppl to vent Then a site where there was rumors they were going to steal my data … turned out to be true Fast forward 15yrs sketchy shit surfaces… when rumors turn out to be true (data scandal) Like most tech - if they don’t find the right lobbyists or gov agency they will fail. IMO: Facebook gives away data to most if not all gov for surveillance initiatives.
So services like Incogni are using people who are looking to have their personal data removed, to harvest their personal data. Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
I don’t trust any of these companies, but in this case I don’t think they are just using people’s data to infer the results of their study. They just did a survey:
Incogni’s researchers surveyed a representative sample of 1,000 adults to investigate people’s attitudes surrounding social media and online engagement more broadly, the extent to which they’re limiting or eliminating social media usage, their reasons for this, and what they experienced after doing so.
