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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I went and scrolled facebook recently and it is absolutely crazy. You get some ads, sure, and a few things that real people posted, but like half of what is on there feels like some kind of shady psychological experiment.

It's like a whole spectrum of flavors of ultra-processed engagement bait. Much of it is made to look like normal people posting normal things, just with a "follow" next to the name and 5,000 replies from kind old people trapped in a rabbit hole they don't even know exists.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 7 months ago

    I can't even fathom what contemporary Facebook is like. I deleted it in, I think, 2009 or thereabouts, right after they changed the timeline from reverse chronological to whatever their first iteration of the engagement-based one is. I thought that sucked pretty bad, so, yeah, can't even imagine how bad it is today.

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