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How F*cked Up is Facebook | Should You Be Afraid
Published 22 Apr 2021
Facebook has long been the "cool" social media platform outlasted its peers from the mid-2000's. It was the central hub for a whole generation to meet, plan events, and archive their youths. But somewhere along the way, Facebook turned into a toxic, political wasteland filled with hate speech and disinformation. How did this platform go from an innocuous social networking site to tearing apart the social fabric of society? VICE producer Zeke Spector goes down the rabbit hole to ask if we should be afraid of Facebook. Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE About VICE: The Definitive Guide To Enlightening Information. From every corner of the planet, our immersive, caustic, ground-breaking and often bizarre stories have changed the way people think about culture, crime, art, parties, fashion, protest, the internet and other subjects that don't even have names yet. Browse the growing library and discover corners of the world you never knew existed. Welcome to VICE. Connect with VICE: Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo Click here to get the best of VICE daily: http://bit.ly/1SquZ6v Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice The VICE YouTube Network: VICE: /VICE MUNCHIES: /MUNCHIES VICE News: /VICENews VICELAND: /VICELANDTV Broadly: /Broadly Noisey: /Noisey Motherboard: /MotherboardTV VICE Sports: /NOC i-D: /iDmagazine Waypoint: /WaypointVICE
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the only way to combat the manipulation is to intentionally search away from itsas a result, i getthat are in no way congruent. I getfrom the far left to the far right, and everything in between. It is the only way to get all the available news. I figure if i get beau of the fifth column and ben shapiro recommended at the same time, i am one step ahead of the algorithm.
i cannot explain why i sometimes getfor things like ice fishing videos that are ten years old and only have 12 other views
why can' t we just be happy in our bubbles? I know i am. 27
unfortunately if you' re not on
only thing i miss is the birthday reminders! 26
got sucked into it and it' s
life has improved greatly since deleting fb/social.
im an entirely different person almost. Reading and taking care o just what they dont want us to do.
peace and love be with each of you.
from the united states
" it' s in your nature to destroy-arnold
that' s why. 9
another big problem with social media is that every body is more hooked online to try to seem cool instead of meeting around and sharing experiences, ideas and common projects in real life
i think it has been problematic ever since zuck decided sure - there were brief light and truly enjoyable moments among my own fb circle. But for the most part, negativity drowned out everything else. In the end i was just so sick and tired of it all. It put me in a foul mood permanently. At some point it just clicked and my mind went you know what - i just dont care anymore. None of this is worth it. Not worth my time and energy. I am just over this. I do not have enough spoons in a day to deal with this. Time to bow out quietly.
i may have a lot fewer interactions with people now but the ones i have are also ones i really value and appreciate. Problem is, it can be lonely at times and it makes me feel left out which is not so nice. But whenever i log back in to see if i have any messages, it usually takes 10 seconds of feed scrolling tops and i remember why i am not active anymore.
so if anyone asks how fucked up facebook is, the answer is yes. It is pretty much fubar if you ask me.
it may have started as a good idea. But then money got involved, people got greedy, and idiots happened. And that was the end of it
so i learned the algorithm is looking for any negative term followed directly by the wordto me that' s a very lame and inexcusable implementation of technology. It' s like they have someone in 8th grade writing the filter rules. That was my first ban, the other one came after and why it was longer. Then they threaten you will much longer bans. I use fb for a lot of positive interactions and to get banned from it in today' s world would be akin to having your phone shut off back in the old days. It really is a disturbance to my ability to communicate and connect with people i know and love and care about!
the silver line here (not really) is that the majority of people have always been dumb by their choice. Being dumb and/or simple makes your life easier. But thanks to social media we are able to hear, read or see those people a lot more as we did before facebook. The only problem is that those people can be easily shifted into almost any direction you want. All it takes is just the right way to do it. To do it in a way they will believe it and almost blindly follow you. And that is the real danger here
fb is a toxic quagmire! 75
lol ok, i won' t mess with him. 2
the day facebook dies is one of the greatest for humanity. People say " twitter is worse" but twitter is where facebook was in 2013. There is still time to save it. Fb however needs to go