Group calls for Facebook, Instagram boycott on Aug. 23 and 24
TORONTO – An advocacy group is calling on Canadians to boycott Facebook and Instagram later this week. The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting group is asking people to stop posting content on Meta...
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It’s well meaning but good luck with that. I don’t have any accounts so can’t participate but people can’t seem to quit using them.
Same. Quit FB a few years ago. Never bothered with Instagram, or Twitter or really anything with my real identity.
However I used FB for nearly 15 years. I got a new job so I wanted to clean as much public facing data as I could, including all the "intrest" FB had decided I had. I'm not sure if its the same now but Facebook used to just keep a list of stuff you where "interested" in based on your browsing history (even outside of FB). Often it was inaccurate. I think ads or somthing whould hijack the algorithm to add whatever they wanted, youd have to clear it out every once and awhile.
After doing this my feed started showing me hate groups, alt right nonsense and images of child abuse material. I realized this meant, that in cases where Facebook had no listed intrest for somebody, this is the ads that it whould use, this was the core of what Facebook was. I nuked the account and never looked back. Honestly, great decision and I've never once regretted it.
Wow that's horrible! I quit and pointed all the facebook domains I could find to 0.0.0.0 when it came out they were experimenting on users in the first place. Pushing that sort of content to empty or cleared out profiles is insane.
After doing this my feed started showing me hate groups, alt right nonsense and images of child abuse material.
Sounds about white. Social media is inherently reactionary because it keeps people angry and engaged with the platform.
How, exactly, does entertainment lead to anger?
Is it a manifestation of the sunk cost fallacy? One goes in thinking they'll have a good time, and when it proves to not be, instead of trying something else, they feel that the time will be wasted if they don't eventually find it in the way they originally planned?
People get angry because entertainment all the time. Trans character? Time to rage! A two second LGBT+ scene? Rage! A female playing Dr. Who? Ragin! Have Black and Asian characters in Lord of the Rings? Fuck, raging!
Comic book movies have their share of raging fans. The new Snow White remake, has people already angry.
So no actual rage, just more funny contributions to the entertainment machine which happen to portray a raging character?
Makes sense. I was starting to wonder there for a minute why someone would waste their free time being upset. But, I do recognize the fun in posting stupid shit that makes no sense.