I have a great time on twitter, for example. I mainly see a handful of people I know from “real life”, some lovely tweets of art deco furniture, some financial news, and some people who tell jokes I like
I mean, if all one sees is trash on facebook & twitter, it might be that you keep selecting to see the trash.
I have a great time on Facebook. I see photos of my friends’ kids and dogs. I learn about their illnesses, births and deaths in the family, and vacations. I see awesome origami folded (and sometimes designed) by a friend. I see posts related to hobbies I care about.
I have carefully trained Facebook to know that I’m not interested in politics or arguments in general. It seems to have worked.
I follow you on twitter. I find it somewhat easier to control what I see there. It’s mostly actuaries, some state Covid peeps, and some authors I like.
On facebook, I either unfollow or unfriend people who annoy me. If they are family I tend to just unfollow.
TIL, Vice Fleeble is on twitter.
I probably already plugged my other twitter profile, but here it is:
https://twitter.com/NewsActuarial
it’s just tweeting posts from one of my sites:
well, and sometimes I respond to replies, but it depends. I mean, it’s me whether it’s that twitter account or meepbobeep.
(lyrics nsfw)
This song pretty well encapsulates what I think is ‘wrong’ with the internet. Which is less about the people in charge and more just what comes from overindulgence.
I would similarly argue that McDonalds, CocaCola, and the “Food Pyramid” are less to blame for fat America than the invention of cheap, rich, addicting foods.
I know this is old. When you wrote it, I was in complete agreement on twitter. If you use it correctly, it’s a bespoke feed from people you’d be interested to hear from on whatever topics you choose.
However, this Musk version seems to be pushing a lot more promoted tweets and garbage so far. There’s a lot more “topics you might be interested in” type stuff than before for me, and I am usually not interested in the stuff they are recommending.
Don’t care for facebook. YMMV
i get a lot of dog rescue videos on facebook. im a sucker for them (if they are short enough).
on twitter, i follow/read up on stuff from like 10 accounts? 2 of them recently left the platform as a reaction to the new owner.
https://twitter.com/JapanTraCul/status/1602590146758512640
I like facebook to keep up with family & my mom group (even though our kids are grown.)
On twitter I liked too many political posts and that was my downfall. I don’t go there much any more.
I like insta but I don’t follow many folks, so not much in my feed.
Can’t believe no one else liked this. Well done.
In 2019 I posted a review for a local restaurant that is now permanently closed, but was known for their desserts. My review was 5 stars and I just said to save room for dessert. No further details.
A few minutes ago I got this reply to my review:
He’s widowed… of course, they’re always widowed. But the picture is surprisingly not really all that. Fairly chubby with a high & tight. His alleged home is about 1,000 miles away. I’m a little disappointed … this one’s not really bringing his A-game.
His ass???
OMG no! High & tight is a men’s haircut. Popular in the military.
Usually the Facebook scammers have pictures of George Clooney lookalikes (meep called them silver foxes) often with a stethoscope draped around their necks. Always widowers.
While there’s really nothing wrong with the picture attached to the obviously fake reply to my 4-year-old review of a now-defunct restaurant, it was not as smoking hot as the pictures the scammers usually use. Just surprising, is all.
I kinda drifted away from Facebook, and only opened it to get details on the death of a friend a couple months ago, and otherwise not since my mom died.
I’m wondering if i should return. What’s it like these days?
Lol, I guess the draft was still on while you were in college, but that was the $3 haircut when i went to school.
In the last month or so I’ve noticed a great increase in ads on the (iPhone) mobile app.
It’s gotten quite annoying.
As frequently as every other “post”. 
I’ve noticed this as well. Driving me off of it as it’s only adds and groups (“suggested” ones I’m not parts of) that seem to show, and very few posts from friends. I’ll probably fade away completely soon.
I don’t really want a groups Facebook, or one to follow influencers, just wanted to keep up with old friends.
I had to rejoin Facebook to join a quilting monthly subscription group. I only check in once a month to get the next pattern, and I’m annoyed this is the only way to participate. But I don’t browse long enough to notice ads.
I hope Facebook is on the way out for good someday soon.
