Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch

It was that combined with the fact that they create shadow profiles for your unborn child when your wife is pregnant. (Found out through FB being allowed to track your browsing history even off the app). That was the final straw right after the Cambridge Analytica issue.

Yep, but the second best time would be now.

I deleted mine shortly thereafter. I tried to convince friends and family to do the same but got accusations of being paranoid or a conspiracy theorist. Jump to now, everyone's Christmas gifts from them this year was tatty bullshit from Temu that was advertised to them on Facebook and I spend most of my time with them dismantling conspiracy theories and misinformation they picked up from the dumbasses they interact with on that fucking site.

I deleted my Facebook account years ago, probably right around 2016. I met a new girl last year and she wanted me to make a Facebook account so she could send me stuff. I relented and made a "new" account using the same email I used back in 2016. Low and behold, Facebook never deleted a fucking thing.

People should have deleted it as soon as their parents figured out how to make an account.

It would be easier if they didn't buy other products I already used. I hate that shit so much. I wish companies were all banned from buying other companies. A company should be one thing, not own all the things. It's hard to choose who you do business with in our country because of this. Even if we all drop these apps today and move to something else they will try to buy that too.

that’s when I dipped - graph api was scary powerful

I don’t remember exactly when I did but it was around then. Sooo much happier honestly.

I did

That’s when I started refusing to use it. I only still have my account because my family refuses to call when shit happens now and only seem to announce it on facebook. So i check it every 6 months.

I beat it by a year or two. For me it was that every time I would log in, my cousin's friend would say hi, and I've only talked to him like once at a family gathering he was at for some reason. I realized most of my Facebook use was deflecting that person instead of actually talking to friends. I looked into it and thought it was super creepy what Facebook was doing with my data, and realized I was getting nothing for all of that invasion of my privacy, so I bailed.

I had to create an account a few years later (probably around 2016) because I needed to work with some FB employees for a couple weeks, and then I deleted it after that contract.

Since then, I've avoided all Meta products.

Stayed with FB despite Cambridge because Portal TV.

I'll still maintain an account because Portal TV.

It's a gorgeous product done wrong by meta and in need of a cloning.

That's just him using a tanning bed.
Trumps too lazy to even use one.

His warranty is about to expire

His eyes have always had that going on.

I'm somehow more creeped out by the Greatest American Hero hairstyling.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_greatest_american_hero/s01

Exactly this. Wasn't Netflix going to sink after everyone cancelled when password sharing was banned? But everyone I know just ended up buying extra logins...

That's fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.

meh its no longer growing.

I'd delete mine, but I don't have one for 10 years or smth.

Yeah,

1 + (1*5000%) = 51

Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

Yeah so if it was 100 queries per day before, its now 5100 per day. Or maybe we are both crazy.

So true... When I see 100% more, I interpret it as 2x. But somewhere around, idk, maybe 300% I interpret "300% more" as 3x. I know that's technically not correct, but it's just where my brain goes. I think a good deal of people just throw around "n% more" and "n% as often" interchangeably without much thought.

Luckily, the bigger the number the less of a difference between the two which is aligned with my brain using them the same.

(And obviously, if it's anything technical where it matters I would get clarification.)

https://justdeleteme.xyz/

Eh, it goes harder in some of the bad things about Reddit, but it's better in others. So it's less "Reddit lite" and more discount Reddit.

The age of social media dying is tight!

Why die, though? There are open source and federated alternatives or there.

Says dude on social media

That is sounding more and more like a benefit to me. Social media that functions as social media for humans and not just another giant corporate surveillance and marketing machine wearing a fun app costume.

I get it. I left Facebook when they changed the feed like a thousand years ago and I haven’t missed it.

My wife is definitely addicted though. She left it for a year, went back just to check in on family after a friend of hers had a baby and she didn’t know about it. She hasn’t put it down since.

She’s a very family oriented person and everyone is on Facebook. Their family is the type to wake up first thing in the morning and start calling each other.

Within minutes of being up, “Ok kids let’s talk to mamaw. Let’s talk to aunty. Now we’re calling great grandma!” Cousins, aunts, uncles, everybody. They’re always talking.

My family is tight like if something goes wrong, but we don’t talk much otherwise. Sister needs help with a bill, someone’s car breaks down, blah blah blah. We can count on each other, just not to talk.

I get why it means so much to her and why it’s been easier for me. I’ll know my cousin had a kid when I bump into her with it at the grocery store. That’s good enough for my people. :p

Edit:

Not that anyone will see this, but we were talking about it tonight and I was dead wrong. She missed her cousins wedding. That’s why she went back, she’s still very sad about it.

i agree with what you’re saying and i think we’re mostly on the same page here. i just felt it would be worth saying that, from my perspective, the point of the fediverse isn’t to compete with those websites but instead to be an alternative to them. it’s to offer a picture of what social media can be like without dark patterns, extreme surveillance, and constant enshittification. and there is a really comfort in that. it feels really nice to not have to worry about a website or app getting worse every time i use it.

i also feel like the people on here tend to behave more thoughtfully (in general) than people on reddit and other for profit social media websites. and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was in part due to the absence of dark patterns making lemmy feel more relaxed and less high stakes. there’s also a bit of a small town feeling on this website that i kind of like too.

And this is exactly the reason I am here 😃

I'm so happy to be here and read about Zuck, Elon and Google all the time

sell it to them as an alternative to calls + sms that's free when used over wifi. it already uses phone number as id

I've read stories that fb is basically the internet for countries in Africa. It's their version of America Online, but much worse.

It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones

Those are typically carrier-sold phones.

Most unlocked phones purchased directly from the manufacturer (or via a retail store like BestBuy) do not have it pre-installed, and even if it is, its removable.

Just use UAD to disable the service, easy

This is actually crazy, on the part of the UK police. I knew the UK government are more like that nosy old granny with binoculars than we have it in the States when it comes to stuff like Facebook and etc, but damn. I will allow that school shooting threats are serious, but in and of itself, actively trying to interrogate someone and demanding their SNS is a new level of invasive imo.

It's silly they don't just delete it instead they make you wait...

i worry about (future, AI enhanced) impersonation attempts so I just keep it secure and don’t post anything.

Community note: this guy smells and is wrong.

Since Facebook market place is the defacto classified now I keep my account around to buy and sell. My feed is full of AI generated images related to anything I search on market place. Right now it is all trucks because I was looking for truck tires.

Just because they are calling it community notes doesnt mean that Facebooks notes would work the same way as Xitters notes.

"human"

I'd like to punchasize his face, for free.

I dont think fact checking was the main reason, moreso that they decided to allow hate speech (e.g. They're allowing targetted hate against LGBT groups).

The usual suspects of Gen Boomer and X that first preached to not believe anything on the internet and yet doing exactly that without an external fact check.

Personally for stuff I don't really care, I will always say "Allegedly (...)" before stating something a website says. If the stuff is important (to me or a peer) I might look harder into it.

Instead of market place I use buy nothing, and offer up, and just give to my local goodwill.

There’s a buy nothing app. It’s a free community run organization for local things that started on Facebook then they made an app and website. It’s all give away stuff but I’ve gotten some really nice & expensive stuff off there and given a lot away too. It’s not as active as their Facebook buy nothing groups, but now maybe that will change. I refuse to use Facebook since I watched my mom turn into a crazy conspiracy trump shit person in 2020.

Ive even made friends with a few people through a few exchanges to them over time on buy nothing, like a nice old lady that I give fruit to from my garden and she makes jam out of it and gives me some back

I think Facebook is popular enough, that this kind of news is actually damaging...

Since the people in charge went full fascist.

How many of those connections would you say are actively maintained instead of just passively there?

Those that are actively maintained you can likely send them something like Signal and start chatting on that instead.

I know this got a lot of downvotes, that's fine. Most of my friends are not tech-savvy or young, they're not going to be signing up for Lemmy or Mastodon. I'm not ready to lose touch with them entirely. I have taken steps to limit what info Meta can collect from me and stopped posting there entirely. I check in now and then to see if there's anything big, but that's it.

So community notes can address more instances of misinformation, that part is true.

But if the community provides misinformation as the "note" then it can actually spread and legitimize misinformation.

So superior is definitely the wrong word for it. Perhaps more efficient? But also more likely to reinforce echo chambers.

Superior would be implementing community notes and then having those checked by centralized fact checkers.

Relevant username.

Cousin that is called voting with your wallet