Social media

[Teddy Eagle]

Apologies to those more savvy than me but this might bear thinking about.
The other night I was scrolling through Instagram and got confronted by a truly revolting reel which subsequently affected the algorithm and literally dozens of others came through.
Apparently the originators put these things up just to elicit comments which help monetise their output. They can be blocked but Meta sometimes glitches and allows them through.
Anyone whose kids look at these things might want to check what they're seeing because this was honestly horrible.

 

[eaglesdare]

Alot of them are based on cookies and previous searches or activities you may have made 🫣

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Alot of them are based on cookies and previous searches or activities you may have made 🫣

Not these because I hadn't previously searched for anything; just let them scroll through and skip over anything I didn't want but these were AI generated things which just popped up.

 

[Part Time James]

I quit social media two years ago and don't feel any worse off. For something that's relatively new on the grand scheme of things, society has become weirdly reliant on it. I am hoping such a damaging concept just implodes eventually.

 

[Casual]

Yep me too.
Knocked it on the head a few years ago. Looked at something on instagram about that c*nt that killed the little girls in Liverpool , then got bombarded with the same subject. Apart from enjoying the upto date boxing/football news , it was having no positive effect on my life, so knocked it on the head.
This is the only form of social media that I use and rarely move from the Palace page.
I just buy the newspaper now , simpler times, plus once you’ve read it, that’s it til the next day.

I quit social media two years ago and don't feel any worse off. For something that's relatively new on the grand scheme of things, society has become weirdly reliant on it. I am hoping such a damaging concept just implodes eventually.

 

[Foxy82]

Apologies to those more savvy than me but this might bear thinking about.
The other night I was scrolling through Instagram and got confronted by a truly revolting reel which subsequently affected the algorithm and literally dozens of others came through.
Apparently the originators put these things up just to elicit comments which help monetise their output. They can be blocked but Meta sometimes glitches and allows them through.
Anyone whose kids look at these things might want to check what they're seeing because this was honestly horrible.

It wasn't a Br*ghton reel was it? I'm so sorry if you had to see that utter filth.

In all seriousness though, I got shot of FB about 10 years ago, haven't used any of the 'big' apps since, apart from Reddit, which I only use occasionally for sport and don't have an account.

I've banned my daughter multiple times Tik Tok etc, but kids always find a way back to this things. They're literally designed to be highly addictive. The sooner they're banned, the better.

This site is the only form of social media I use, I'm not sure how bad that is for my mental health 🙃

 

[Part Time James]

The thing that eventually pushed me off social media was actually quite weird and based on the terrible auto-moderation.

The Sisters of Mercy posted up something on Instagram about the Floodland album which holds special memories for me. I wrote quite a lengthy comment about it, talking about my favourite songs, my first impressions etc. I was placed under a temporary ban for "coercing people into buying a product that they may not want". I knew it was an algorithm that had made a mistake, so I appealed it. But the appeal also failed. When I was given my account back I decided to report everything I didn't like (just to be a d*ck).

One such post was a woman who posted a hyperlink to a dirty website in the comments on an official Crystal Palace post. Her profile pic was of her in see through underwear where you could clearly see her birthing equipment. I got a message two days later to say it hadn't violated any community standards.

When I ascertained that prostituting your naked body on Instagram was ok, but saying you liked a Sisters of Mercy album was not, I decided the whole thing was bullsh*t and I quit. I know which I'd prefer for an innocent kid to stumble upon...

 

[Part Time James]

To add to that, I look back at how many decent people would fall out over politics. I said to a mate "if someone is sufficiently motivated to share their political opinions on Facebook, then you've as much chance of changing their opinion as you would if you asked them to support a different football team". Yet people spent hours commenting and getting quite nasty.

I mean, happens on here too and I know I've joined in (I hope I haven't been nasty though) but I am weaning myself off!

 

[Foxy82]

To add to that, I look back at how many decent people would fall out over politics. I said to a mate "if someone is sufficiently motivated to share their political opinions on Facebook, then you've as much chance of changing their opinion as you would if you asked them to support a different football team". Yet people spent hours commenting and getting quite nasty.

I mean, happens on here too and I know I've joined in (I hope I haven't been nasty though) but I am weaning myself off!

This and the Internet is apparently now full of bots, outnumbering us mere humans.

 

[Part Time James]

This and the Internet is apparently now full of bots, outnumbering us mere humans.

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[Part Time James]

This and the Internet is apparently now full of bots, outnumbering us mere humans.

Brazilian man sells belongings, travels 2,000 km to meet woman he hoped to marry, but she was not real - The Economic Times

A Brazilian bricklayer sold his belongings and travelled nearly 2,000 km to meet a woman he believed was his future wife, only to discover that she was an AI-generated character on TikTok. Edimar Martins, 49, ran out of money after failing to find her and received assistance to return home. The...

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Still would.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I quit social media two years ago and don't feel any worse off. For something that's relatively new on the grand scheme of things, society has become weirdly reliant on it. I am hoping such a damaging concept just implodes eventually.

Fair play. I don't use it either, am only on Facebook to see if the local pub has any news and have never posted anything, Instagram has some music and sports clips I watch but it's being infested with AI stuff which is designed to affect people with various phobias (which I don't have) who respond to complain and once the interactions reach a certain level the originators can delete the content and sell the domain.
As I said these images could be very damaging to any young people seeing them and there are probably very much worse out there.

 

[Part Time James]

Fair play. I don't use it either, am only on Facebook to see if the local pub has any news and have never posted anything, Instagram has some music and sports clips I watch but it's being infested with AI stuff which is designed to affect people with various phobias (which I don't have) who respond to complain and once the interactions reach a certain level the originators can delete the content and sell the domain.
As I said these images could be very damaging to any young people seeing them and there are probably very much worse out there.

I appreciate where your post came from and it was a decent warning, thank you. My follow up comments weren't meant to sound self righteous, more a case of me hoping that society was generally moving away from it. There are a lot of things I miss out on, for sure, I even had one or two z-list celebs following me on Twitter and Instagram which was kinda fun. I no longer think much about what I'm missing. It's not enough to go back to such a toxic concept.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

while the mainstream Media are so censored, propagandized and generally crap......Social Media plays a valuable role in telling us what is really going on in the World.

 

[samprior]

My view is it's an absolute scourge on society. The cause, instigator, manipulator of many modern day problems.

The world would be better off without it, unless of course you're in the business of collecting and selling people's data, marketing absolute crap or really into AI scams.

I feel sorry for the younger generations that have never known a life without it and us 'older' generations are responsible for allowing our children to be harvested by the tech bros.

Needless to say, I'm not a fan lol

 

[samprior]

while the mainstream Media are so censored, propagandized and generally crap......Social Media plays a valuable role in telling us what is really going on in the World.

I'd argue Social media mostly tells us the 'truth' that we really want to hear, not necessarily what is really going on in the world.

 

[eaglesdare]

I think a lot of people will fall of the social media when the digital ID comes in next year in fear of being locked up for a like or comment.

 

[Part Time James]

while the mainstream Media are so censored, propagandized and generally crap......Social Media plays a valuable role in telling us what is really going on in the World.

I don't trust mainstream media or some gobshite called Gary getting giddy about Area 51 for seven 'likes' from his echo chamber of nutjobs.

 

[Part Time James]

I think a lot of people will fall of the social media when the digital ID comes in next year in fear of being locked up for a like or comment.

I certainly hope some enforced accountability will make things better, definitely. Almost all of the opinions you read on social media are things a person wouldn't dare shout out in a pub. Or stuff that's too mundane to espouse in public of course.

I wonder how we can stop women taking a photo of a glass of wine on a table as if we can't imagine what a glass of wine on a table looks like.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I certainly hope some enforced accountability will make things better, definitely. Almost all of the opinions you read on social media are things a person wouldn't dare shout out in a pub. Or stuff that's too mundane to espouse in public of course.

I wonder how we can stop women taking a photo of a glass of wine on a table as if we can't imagine what a glass of wine on a table looks like.

My missus told me about a mate of hers who seems to have someone close to her die every other day of the year. Maybe all the "Be strong honey" and "Thinking of you, babe" comments are worth the catalogue of loss.