BS: facebook lunatics

Subject: BS: facebook lunatics
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 20 - 02:50 AM

have they taken over the asylum.
increasing posts about world conspiracies,plane spraying, 5g etc
in the past it was mainly people showing what they had for breakfast, from banal to bonkers

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 May 20 - 02:59 AM

I expect you're right Sandman. I recently registered, but only to access our special 'Village Facebook' during this lockdown. It's been extremely useful as it keeps all the villagers in touch, needs are expressed (shopping, lost cat, escaped pig, things for sale) and met (offers to deliver food, cat has been seen, pig too, hours-of-opening of our little shop etc). I suppose it could be described as banal, but nobody posts daft stuff or shows off with 'look-at-me' posts.

Actually, because I have an unusual surname, I got a 'person you may know' thingy, and it turned out to be a cousin I've never met, my father's brother's son. We exchanged some messages and it really warmed my heart!

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 20 - 03:12 AM

Senoufou ,i was not describing
'Village Facebook' during this lockdown. It's been extremely useful as it keeps all the villagers in touch, needs are expressed (shopping, lost cat, escaped pig, things for sale) and met (offers to deliver food, cat has been seen, pig too, hours-of-opening of our little shop etc)" as banal. although what you describe is often dealt with by email or village newsletters.
What i was referring to was the many photographs of what people have just eaten has been replaced with conspiracy theories etc.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 20 - 03:18 AM

Ihave been on facebook for some years and i find it useful to advertise my festival, it seems to be mainly about advertising disguised as a social media site, perhaps face book think i am a potential lunatic so they are posting me in my feed all these conspiracy theories etc.
, i really am donald trump i am not a lunatic

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 May 20 - 05:44 AM

Do you know Ionesco's "Rhinoceros"? - FB feels like that a lot of the time.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Donuel
Date: 10 May 20 - 08:41 AM

Sound and fury...

QAnon, Nazis and Russia all realize we have our election in 177 days

Zuckerberg has a mortal choice to make as he is at the nexxus of mob rule.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Jeri
Date: 10 May 20 - 11:17 AM

I suspect AdBlock may be the reason I'm not seeing any of this stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 May 20 - 12:25 PM

I think it's actually the real Facebook I'm on, because that's the site I have to sign into before choosing the Village Facebook thingy.
I'm hopeless with all this tech. My husband showed me, and I've been accepted as one of his 'friends'. Weird!
There are adverts popping up too, but I just ignore them.
Do you think people are bored stiff Sandman, and are entertaining themselves being Keyboard Warriors, putting forward conspiracy theories and political rants etc?
In case anyone was terribly worried, the pig has now been returned to his enclosure. But the old mare is still scratching her bum on the top rail of her gate. (Thought you might be losing sleep over this)

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Charmion
Date: 10 May 20 - 12:55 PM

I've been on Facebook since my little brother roped me in more than 10 years ago.

My brother spent some 25 years in the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery, so his friends are spread all over Canada and in some strange corners of the rest of the world. The invention of Facebook was a godsend to those guys, and they use it to chase each other down and swap photos of their young selves holding weapons in faraway places and their current selves holding grandchildren on suburban patios.

This is highly typical of Canadian veterans, I have learned, and I bet American and British and Ozzie and French and German and Dutch and Scandinavian veterans are much the same.

A strong sub-set of this crowd use it to push band-of-brothers messaging to combat PTSD and help those who are floundering regain their feet. Some of the more aggrieved use it to push fringe opinions and the occasional rage-filled rant, but the more moderate members of the network tend to talk them off the ledge -- at least in the circles where I revolve.

That last bit is VERY IMPORTANT. Facebook and social media platforms like it depend on algorithms that analyse the stuff you post and the stuff you look at to define the stuff it will push at you.

So, to a large extent, you get what you give.

Facebook tries to sell me cookware, comfortable shoes and funky clothes, and tries to get me to donate to cat rescues and veterans' charities.

If you're seeing hate stuff, you might want to check your habits.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 20 - 01:13 PM

If you're seeing hate stuff, you might want to check your habits.
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ha ha, are you suggesting i join the freemasons

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 May 20 - 01:44 PM

Perhaps I shall soon be seeing adverts for bum cream for horses? :)

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Charmion
Date: 10 May 20 - 02:58 PM

I’d love to see an advert for equine bum cream, myself. I bet it works a lot better than Nivea.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 May 20 - 03:09 PM

Haaaaghaaaaaghaaaagh Charmion!!!

I think some people on that there Facebook have an inflated idea of what might interest everybody. If they're posting stuff about what they ate for breakfast (with accompanying photo) why do they imagine anyone cares a pin?
And 'in a relationship' etc? So what?
I was rather pleased my husband accepted me as a 'friend' hee hee. But afterwards, there appeared a load of photos entitled 'People You May Know', all Ivorians in Abidjan! I'd truly love to know them, but I'm rather far away. I suppose they're folk my husband knows, or the site made the connection.
(Actually, many of them were rather tasty!)

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 May 20 - 03:17 PM

There is a browser extension called "Facebook Purity" that allows you to filter out a lot of the FB crap. I tell it I want to see posts in order, not promoted the way FB wants me to see them. I filter out all games, the marketplace, a lot of the silly response stuff that fills up the notifications. That said, you can't talk about "Facebook Purity" on FB, they won't let those posts go through. The way you talk about it is to call it "Fluff Busting Purity" and load it from the browser extensions or directly from it's web page. The direct from the page method is more reliable, because there have been some copycat FBP extensions pop up that are either malware or adware.

This link, opened on the same browser where you are logged into Facebook will let you set it up. Here's a video with more information. It's better to download from the site, not pick up from the browser extension list, but the last half of this video is still accurate.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Jeri
Date: 10 May 20 - 03:42 PM

What Charmion is getting at is that...
when we say "don't respond to trolls", Facebook doesn't know or care WHAT you say. If you respond to any nasty post, no matter whether you say "don't bother me, you evil person" or anything else, it notices that it got your attention and will feed you more of it. I get ads for funky clothes, which I don't mind muchg.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: DaveRo
Date: 10 May 20 - 03:44 PM

Mozilla have written this:

Facebook Container For Firefox

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Jeri
Date: 10 May 20 - 04:55 PM

And for funny: this isn't Facebook (it was Amazon), but it's an algorithm thing I wonder where I went to get this ad: Shreddies USA Flatulence Filtering Men's Support Boxers.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 May 20 - 07:35 PM

There is a strong right-wing segment of our community. I'm not sure how many votes they have, but they do their best to dominate what goes on in this part of the county in the otherwise-liberal State of California. I feel an obligation to participate in the two local Facebook forums in the area, and at least give some voice to alternate views - especially since elected officials also participate in these forums.
But it's much more fun to play Words With Friends on Facebook, and to sing on Zoom.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 May 20 - 07:16 AM

If I talk about shirts or something like that on Mudcat I get bombarded with ads for shirts. Like Jeri, I'm not bothered.

So let me just try something different:

Ahem:

SEX

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 May 20 - 07:25 AM

Unfortunately, Shreddies are a very popular breakfast cereal this end. The only place I've ever seen ads for those Shreddies fart-filtering pants is in gents' toilets in motorway service stations. It's always lithe, young, callipygian men fearlessly flaunting their pristine Shreddies-bedecked buttocks during energetic and manly sporting activities, often with a gorgeous young girl well within sniffing distance of his arse. Now that's confidence for you. Doesn't do it for me. I feel like telling 'em to cut down on the beans, then they wouldn't need the Shreddies in the first place.

(God, Shaw, you've REALLY asked for those ads now...)

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 May 20 - 08:22 AM

increasing posts about world conspiracies,plane spraying, 5g etc

I limit my contacts/friends but I did have one (still) friend who posted something political that I decided to explain how the large black type is shouting, and deep fakes are discrediting any videos from "mates" - he eventually replied "its my opinion" which it clearly wasn't, he had "shared" someone else's! Which is how the conspirices work.

The irony is he did say, re a video, that he remembered the original on TV. This from a man who insisted he remembered Johnny Craddock ending a TV cooking programme with "and may all your doghnuts turn out like Fanny's" (in English English this is hilarious). I even used this on a post in this parish, only to be corrected wth "no it was the announcer after the show". That's the fallibility of memory, it can morph, conflate, and be manipulated.

its name is Fakebook.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Charmion
Date: 11 May 20 - 09:39 AM

So, Mr Red, was that dog nuts or doughnuts?

If I knew, I might get the joke.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Donuel
Date: 11 May 20 - 09:49 AM

btw There have been no con trails or 'chem trails' sprayed behind jets for over a month now. The skies have not been such an amazing BLUE for decades. check it out - look up.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 May 20 - 11:58 AM

Doughnuts, AKA Donuts Charmion.

I get no ads on either FB or Mudcat. I am a happy man.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 May 20 - 11:59 AM

Oh yes, and Fannys are to the front rather than to the rear in the UK. (Of ladies that is)

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 20 - 01:04 PM

Steve, that kind of post in a thread tends to bring in spammers who post links to porn. There are some threads that are spam magnets, if you look at the moderation view of the deleted messages there are a few legitimate posts and miles of spam.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Donuel
Date: 11 May 20 - 02:57 PM

Shelter underground if infected with
Symbalene Blood Burn

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 May 20 - 05:11 PM

Aye, Willie the Shake had a problem with that Cymbeline

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 May 20 - 03:08 AM

For our colonial cousins, Fanny Craddock was a 1950s deep-voiced TV chef who had a cooking programme. Johnny played the hen-pecked lush, on the side. And yes fannies are to the front in the UK. And as every Brit knows, the correct spelling for doughnuts is doughnuts.

And by all accounts she was the dipso, maybe he was there to ensure she made it through the show.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 May 20 - 03:30 AM

What evidence was there she was a drunk, are you sure mr red

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 May 20 - 04:07 AM

Not said she was drunk. I doubt she was drunk on the shows. As a child I would not be knowledgeable enough to detect, I think.

But I have heard it said that Johnny, who portrayed as an inveterate drinker, always looking for the cooking sherry was not a dipso. And that if anything she was the fonder of the sauce. Real life differing from the acting on screen, was the message I got.

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Donuel
Date: 12 May 20 - 09:38 AM

It's a jungle out there
People sowin confusion everywhere
No one one seems to care, well I do, HEY
who's in charge here?

It's a jungle out there
Poison in the very air we breathe
You know whats in the water that you drink
Well I do, its ..so.. crazy
People think I'm crazy that I worry all the time
If you paid attention you'd be worried too
You better pay attention or this world we love so much

Might.. Just.. Kill You

I could be wrong now......But I don't think so

Cuz there's a jungle out there
It's a jungle out there


Randy Newman

Subject: RE: BS: facebook lunatics
From: Donuel
Date: 12 May 20 - 10:59 AM

Facebook lunatics often refer to 'crisis actors' who pretend there is gun violence in Newtown or deaths in NYC. They have a point.
I have never seen the dead bodies in NYC or Newtown. It is also easy for actors to pretend to be dead. All we ever see are semi trucks or coffins.

On the other hand "not seeing the bodies" is also the punchline for Russain Putin jokes. :^/