On leaving Facebook
I haven't killed my account over there or anything. I'll probably keep it in a dormant state because there are just too many situations where I might need it.
THAT SAID
I don't even need to get on a high horse about ethics or the new administration to be bailing on Facebook. My feed there is a disaster. Half of it is groups I didn't follow. I don't know when they added that "feature." Before the election, those unfollowed group posts were inflammatory political crap. Now, they're mostly AI-generated fake images.
And speaking of AI-generated fake images, I clicked ONE VIDEO on their video shorts and managed to train the algorithm that I want to see fake videos of AI-enlarged sea life. That's absurdly specific. How is that even a category?
I get the argument that Facebook holds so many relationships that will be hard to keep up otherwise, but it's gotten so hard to find content from any of those relationships that I'm not sure the argument makes sense anymore
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Daniel Lowe
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Susan Rati Lane
in reply to Daniel Lowe • •Hmmm. That makes a lot of sense.
Enlighten me on the dead internet theory.
Daniel Lowe
in reply to Susan Rati Lane • •Basically that, statistically, there are no more real people on the Internet. It's just bots advertising and trying to scam bots.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Intβ¦
Crystal Wolf
in reply to Susan Rati Lane • • •Susan Rati Lane
in reply to Crystal Wolf • •ππ! This feels really good. I want to be able to chat with friends like this. It's just that, like a lot of people, falling off Facebook was so good for my mental health that I didn't want to try returning.
Crystal Wolf
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