Comment by Nursie
2 days ago
When it comes to images like those in the article, “Is this real?” is not really part of my reaction. Neither is “poor thing” or “wow that’s impressive” or whatever else.
My reaction is “why is this useless shit being shoved in my face?”.
I don’t care if it’s real, the only reason I visited the website is to check if the local market’s on this week, and maybe see if anyone I know has posted anything (increasingly unlikely). I think in the modern age it's healthy to have a much wider cynicism - what is this crap, I didn't ask for it, f### off.
I don’t really get why Facebook tries so hard to get me to look at this rubbish. The more of this shit-shovelling there is, the less often I go and the fewer friend posts there are. It’s becoming a dead platform.
“why is this useless shit being shoved in my face?” Because you allow it to.
That's not really a useful answer. I'm looking for the motive, which (when it's something you're not directly looking for) is usually money.
I fully understand that "stop using the service" is an option.
Fair enough. Let me rephrase it: Because "they" don't care on what kind of method they can use to extracting money from everything that makes you you. The algorithms have a simple task: Try and shove as much possible methods in your systems to get you to spend money.
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