@matt Tangential but I know someone who recently created an account to use marketplace. Almost immediately it suggested she friend members of her estranged family who live in another country.
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"A Winnipeg man who says he was scammed out of hundreds of dollars...
"when he hit a problem moving his Facebook account over to the new phone, his wife did an online search and found what appeared to be a phone number for Facebook customer support"
Ok, so I got the Facebook email today about the sneaky change in their TOS to steal more user data. This time for "AI".
That's it. I deleted my account. I wasn't using it anyway, but I kept it to keep Messenger working. I created a new Messenger account instead for the handful of cases where I still need it.
I had not yet accepted the changed TOS from last year, and had to "consent" to those outrageous terms too just to get to the delete button. Clearly illegal.
I stopped using facebook more than a year ago, and this year I have been deleting my posts in a daily exercise of excising my memories from that ghastly platform.
Today, out of curiosity, I had a quick count: my feed was 90% "for you", "follow", "join", and 10% posts from people in my circle of friends.
I don't know if my friends don't post anymore, or if the algorithm prefers not to display their posts.
Occasionally I revisit Facebook and I can find my friends' posts but it takes more effort than it used to.
The site will show me more of whatever/ whoever I last viewed rather than a bit of everyone I followed. If I search for friends I see more of them.
The constant suggestions to join more groups and add more people is quite off-putting.
@jacklaridian Pidgin used to have plugins that could talk to Messenger? Not sure if that's still the case. I think its still going? Software from an earlier era, though.
@jacklaridian@Uraael You wouldn’t though if you‘d still connect to their service. The client doesn’t matter that much in the end.
I have the same problem with some of my contacts. A few stubbornly remain there (prolly bc their whole family or something is there), but I like them enough to not be like „sayonara, suckers, see you never.“.
I‘d love to finally delete that messenger app, though. I have some success with the slow approach: I have Messenger only on my phone, so Discord and Signal messages reach me much faster and I answer them immediately. While Messenger texts lie a few days to stew before I answer. And then probably in person, when I see the person. If they complain, I tell them about Signal and who else in our Circle is already on there.
More and more get annoyed enough by it, to install it just to reach me ^^ and get connected with the rest of us this way.
My mom is 77 though and I am happy she knows how to use this app. I will very likely not get her to get used to another anymore.
I spoke out against sharenting for years at #cscw when research was presented on parents' sharing, and how good it was for moms to use #facebook because it connected them to each other while isolated. I was constantly the debbie downer arguing wtf privacy implications and autonomy of the child... But the research was #facebook funded so just kept beating the same yay-socials drumbeat.