Recently, twitter has been insisting on pushing the saddest stories to my phone that it can find. wtf, why is it doing this? I have no idea. But I shall use this thread to document said stories.
for the 2nd one, is an appropriate response ābetter to have loved and lost than never to have loved at allā to this crap invading my happy space?
When Stu dies, Iāll come to you for a good laugh. 
[and no, Iām not putting any of this shit on twitter or facebook, ffs]
Also, most of my top twitter results (other than getting my other accountās tweets) are public finance-related, data science stuff, and Art Nouveau. Would you prefer that? I mean, Iāve been on twitter since 2008, and Iāve trained their algorithm, so I donāt get this weepy stuff.
What Iām saying is: itās your own fault youāre getting this.
how the heck is this my fault??? iām barely on twitter at all. twitter just decided to send this to my phone!
i used to read twitter a little bit to see what crazy shit trump was saying, but not for sob stories. now iām not really on there at all, but my phone keeps sending me these!
Why is Twitter sending anything to your phone? Iām sure there are settings you can change, if you so desire.
no clue. i also get articles from where my ao bff lives sent to my phone without asking it to and some other articles it just decides i absolutely need to see. my phone seems to have a mind of itās own.
i might need a new phone.
FB did this to me the other day, but closer. A college classmate posted family photos a couple weeks back of her, her husband, and their little girl, along with his parents, and I thought man, heās lost a lot of weight. Yesterday, she and her husband show up in my feed as being tagged in condolences of loss, he died of cancer. I feel like a voyeur, because of the postings, since she and her husband hadnāt posted anything publicly, so itās just this window into grief that is heartbreaking, but also none of my business, we havenāt done more interaction than send likes on photos in years.
thatās less weird. these twitter posts are from complete strangers going direct to my phone. itās like twitter or my phone decided that i need to see horrible things.
You need to delete twitter. It is a completely useless app. Well, not completely useless. But mostly useless. Like Instagram.
well since trump is banned from twitter, probably now is. thatās pretty much the only person i followed.
i guess maybe i can follow campbellās ramblings about public pensions or something now.
instagram isnāt pushing shit like this to my phone. at the end of my friends posts when it runs out of people iām following, it shows me cute puppies.
I put up cute puppy pix tooooooooo!!!
You can follow my actuarial news feed!
https://twitter.com/NewsActuarial
Of course, usually thereās a bunch of links in the early morning & at night when Iām watching TV with Stu
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I deleted FB about four months ago. Wasnāt a huge Twitter user and I deleted that last week. So far, this is all going well. Never had Instagram.
I keep FB b/c there are some groups I need to be a part of, like my sonās sports teams and the parentsā page for his class.
That and to see the pics of the hot friends of friends that FB keeps recommending to me.
I donāt really use it for anything else.
I kept my account and I occasionally log in. Iām mostly there for the Marketplace, we are looking for lots of things to furnish our new old house.
I have no idea who this Scott person is and why Iād care that heās now dead, but my phone really wanted me to know about it.
I have all those apps set to not be allowed to send me notifications unless they are open. And i only open them when thereās something i want to look at. I donāt get any random crap āsent to my phoneā.
You have an Android phone, right? Go into settings, then āapps and notificationsā and you should be able to take care of this problem.
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