The Joys of Facebook
Dec. 27th, 2017 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glitch25So... one of the things I decided to do about 2ish or so months ago was to completely unfollow everyone and everything on Facebook. Not unfriend, to be clear. Just unfollow. The idea being that when I was done, my Timeline should only be my posts.. and apparently ads since we can't seem to get rid of those. I wanted to make Facebook a place of deliberate time and not a place where I mindlessly scrolled through my feed. I wanted to be able to deliberately go to people's pages and see what they are up to. I wanted it to be a more significant and deliberate process to do that.
The process of unfollowing everybody and everything was pretty simple in execution albeit time-consuming in its own way. The plan was to unfollow as things cropped up rather than attempt to go into my actual friends lists and address them there. Those whose posts ended up on my feed most often were the firsts to go by virtue of there being more in my face. Then as those whom either posted less or for whom Facebook showed me less posts, those got addressed as it went. This included "liked pages" of either celebrities or bands or groups. One of the things you discover when removing everything is how much crap you clicked "Like" on. SO many pages of SO much stuff... All gone for now.
In this process, I re-followed close family, and I also was sure to enable notifications on all the peoples that I'm close to or felt a need to keep up with closely. And it turns out that it doesn't matter how you have the extra notification flags set. Facebook will ultimately decide what you do and don't see. And going to a person's page is not even a good way to guarantee you'll see everything unless you scroll for days and days.
Not that I was in any way ignorant of this, but what I've continued to learn is that Facebook sucks. It is infuriating how easy it is for Facebook to either lose posts or just outright not show them to you for who knows what reason. I've even lost my own comments to my own posts. As in.. OTHER people will see them, but I can't go back and look at my own comment, much less the comments people have made to them.
Along those lines, if you notice I haven't been "liking" or reacting to your posts lately, chances are, I'm having trouble finding them. Alternately, if you see me react to a week's worth at a time, that's me catching up and getting around to you.
I would say if you have something you want me specifically to see, that you should tag me. That might work, but I'm finding that even that isn't always the case. Up to you.
Somewhere along the line, this whole thing kinda defeats a point. For me, I mean. I'm sure Facebook is finding ways to wring out every penny they can get from us with these bizarre algorithms.
It is one of the reasons I miss this place. Or rather, the place that these journals once had.
The process of unfollowing everybody and everything was pretty simple in execution albeit time-consuming in its own way. The plan was to unfollow as things cropped up rather than attempt to go into my actual friends lists and address them there. Those whose posts ended up on my feed most often were the firsts to go by virtue of there being more in my face. Then as those whom either posted less or for whom Facebook showed me less posts, those got addressed as it went. This included "liked pages" of either celebrities or bands or groups. One of the things you discover when removing everything is how much crap you clicked "Like" on. SO many pages of SO much stuff... All gone for now.
In this process, I re-followed close family, and I also was sure to enable notifications on all the peoples that I'm close to or felt a need to keep up with closely. And it turns out that it doesn't matter how you have the extra notification flags set. Facebook will ultimately decide what you do and don't see. And going to a person's page is not even a good way to guarantee you'll see everything unless you scroll for days and days.
Not that I was in any way ignorant of this, but what I've continued to learn is that Facebook sucks. It is infuriating how easy it is for Facebook to either lose posts or just outright not show them to you for who knows what reason. I've even lost my own comments to my own posts. As in.. OTHER people will see them, but I can't go back and look at my own comment, much less the comments people have made to them.
Along those lines, if you notice I haven't been "liking" or reacting to your posts lately, chances are, I'm having trouble finding them. Alternately, if you see me react to a week's worth at a time, that's me catching up and getting around to you.
I would say if you have something you want me specifically to see, that you should tag me. That might work, but I'm finding that even that isn't always the case. Up to you.
Somewhere along the line, this whole thing kinda defeats a point. For me, I mean. I'm sure Facebook is finding ways to wring out every penny they can get from us with these bizarre algorithms.
It is one of the reasons I miss this place. Or rather, the place that these journals once had.
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Date: 2017-12-27 09:04 pm (UTC)The only thing I posted lately that I would probably like you to see is this:
I will be in Seattle soon!
To be more precise: I will arrive on January 18 and leave on February 4th.
So if you want to have a lunch date with me or are free on Friday, Sunday or Tuesday evenings (except the Tuesday after Conflikt), let me know!
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Date: 2017-12-27 09:12 pm (UTC)Yay Seattle! We'll definitely have to make plans. I will be at Conflikt as well!
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Date: 2018-01-03 06:42 pm (UTC)Quite annoying. I just let it show me what it wants to show me. I "Like" nearly everything. At some point I may stop following some things that post a lot (and invite me to things I don't care about that much). But yeah, I, too, miss what LJ was...