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i'm sick of all other social medias and have come full circle. i haven't sent a friend request in years, but this means the people showing up on my feed are so random and so funny. i see a ton of content from elderly relatives, estranged acquaintances, old elementary school classmates' parents, etc. it's great for getting out of your little curated internet bubble.
also the algorithm for feeding suggested content to you sucks in the best, most bonkers way. my FB feed is like 1/3 posts from friends and pages i follow, and 2/3 suggested content. scrolling rn i see an AI-generated photoset of 1994 Jennifer Aniston in a bikini with her arms around 2018 Ariana Grande and 2010 Selena Gomez (both also in bikinis), a diet guide marketed specifically to grandmothers, a mysterious advertisement for a "miracle plant" that features a video of someone rubbing aloe vera onto the crotch of a pair of panties, a post from the page "Exploring Utah" that's just pictures of Utah's landscape, and a scathing tabloid article about Nicole Kidman coming from a page called "I Love Denzel Washington."
beware of russian bots. have fun!!!
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I reopened a Facebook account in case someone for some ungodly reason wants to contact me. I‘ve been completely off of social media and haven’t been keeping up, so from time to time, I like to use the algorithmic friend recommendations it feeds to me as a digital scrying stone of sorts to briefly glimpse into the lives of people from my past by scrolling through their completely public profiles.
Anyway I don’t do anything on there so it also recommends me completely random posts like this one which is a vibe actually. By the way I didn’t know people still referred to themselves as savage in 2024… Facebook culture shock seeing how the people live
May 31, 2024
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The oldest active social network is now correctly seen as passé, cringe, and even trashy. But I have a soft spot for making a sentimental well written post for my older relatives to read
Feb 19, 2024
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tired of sponsored posts and search results, looking for freaks and weirdos and the things they like
Jan 23, 2024
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i stay up late a lot of the time for no reason other than to keep the doors of the day open to potential, but i’ve started taking melatonin gummies and magnesium (also preferably gunmies) at like 10pm and just putting myself to bed and it actually rocks. it does not make me feel like i wasted my night the way i feared it would and my future self is always happy i did it
if the m&m gummies don’t cut it i also recommend a weighted blanket and some background noise (i like podcasts about things that are only marginally interesting to me. last night i learned about the economics of bubble tea idk)
Sep 28, 2024
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gotta keep the lungs guessing….
Apr 9, 2024
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very scary but essential if we ever want to break free of the prison of dating apps….. can’t keep sitting on tinder while all the hotties pass you by….. step 2 is saying something to them but we r working our way up to that
May 11, 2024