End of free speech - Or are they just so reliant on AI?

[Baldy]

It used to be good for keeping in touch with old friends from way back when and family. We're spread across the globe. Lately I get post after post of "follow" all of it total rubbish I'm not remotely interested in. Mean while post from family and friends no longer appear in my feed. I'm seriously thinking of deleting it.

 

[wiggydiggy]

It used to be good for keeping in touch with old friends from way back when and family. We're spread across the globe. Lately I get post after post of "follow" all of it total rubbish I'm not remotely interested in. Mean while post from family and friends no longer appear in my feed. I'm seriously thinking of deleting it.

The feed was changed several years ago but until the change it just had updates from any friends and was useful, when Mark Zuckerberg decided he did want to make money from it the feed changed to lots of adverts, sponsored links and 'news'. Its gash.

 

[Dadam]

I joined it in 2011. Back then most of your feed actually originated from those people you had chosen to "friend", in my case friends and family.

Over the last few years it's been more and more drivel. Articles and posts "chosen for you", i.e. chosen to push your hot buttons and get more "engagement", i.e stir up more and more polarised bad feeling to harvest your personal data and sell it to bad actors.
A while back I counted how many posts were from actual friends and family, and on that occasion got less than 5%. It's a cesspit. It's getting worse, especially since the Zuck decided fact checking was inconvenient as facts and truth often tended to fly in the face of certain factions' narratives.

I only stay on because of a few groups I'm on. Sadly forums like this for hobbies are dying out. Keeping up with F&F is easier on Whatsapp. (Yes I know, also owned by Zuck).

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The shame with FB is its very useful for some groups, aircraft, cars, whatever...and family of course, but their general page is becoming a hotbed of rubbish at best, actually vile stuff at worst and you only have to click on one wrong page and you get deluged with more of it. Then you have to go through each of those as they come up and click 'not interested or report if too bad' Then the content seems to settle down again
I'd come off it if all the family did likewise, it just has soooo much rubbish in there, including AI clips which for some reason, lots of people believe and comment on as though it is.
Humanity really is doomed going by people's comments in there

It is really the worst thing about the WWW (not "the internet" as there is a LOT more to that!)

but things like FaceAche that take "things you are interested in"
and then just feed you more of it - and then more and them more

as a result people start to get a more and more polarised view of what "everyone thinks" because everything they see is just what they think

so if they think "people like that" should "do what they are supposed to do"
then you will see a load of people who agree with you and so your views become validated


in the old days - back when Moses were a lad - you went to the pub and talked to people and sooner or later someone would tell you that you are talking b****x
but now that person is not in your field of view


he says looking at the forum title and realising that this itself is a self selected group with specific views and interests!


(Edited to remove references which should be in "the Other Place"

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Not on Facebook, Twitter (or whatever it's called) or anything else, never have been.

The only place I ever post inane drivel is fairly easy for you to deduce......