Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    234·
    2 days ago

    i’m so tired of nothingburger feel good ‘stories’ about search trends

    this really is just reddit lite

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Eh, it goes harder in some of the bad things about Reddit, but it’s better in others. So it’s less “Reddit lite” and more discount Reddit.

    • jdeath@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      i worry about (future, AI enhanced) impersonation attempts so I just keep it secure and don’t post anything.

        • jdeath@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 days ago

          my grandma is still alive, some other family as well. with AI voice cloning and things i just foresee a lot of negative possibilities. maybe in another decade nobody i know would be on those places as well, hopefully there is some alternative for keeping up with family and old colleagues etc.

            • jdeath@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 days ago

              unfortunately can’t jet across the country regularly, as much as i might wish. and sometimes calls happen over (guess what) fb messenger. not everything is a conversation, but meta products cover a lot of ground beyond status updates at this point.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                2 days ago

                They do, but is that actually helping build your relationship? Or does it make you feel like you’re more connected than you are and justify calling/visiting a bit less?

  • ToastySaff@lemmy.worldEnglish
    731·
    3 days ago

    He’s getting very Trumpy with the orange tint and pale skin around the eyes.

  • Eudocimus@lemm.eeEnglish
    82·
    2 days ago

    I have no clue why anyone takes this seriously or is concerned about this. I have seen maybe three fact-checks during my lifetime on Facebook. That was a long long time ago. I disagreed with two of them and I am not sure if the third one said anything interesting.

    Is there a population somewhere I am not aware of, who believes everything they see on Facebook, who will now be ruined by this change?

    • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
      161·
      2 days ago

      I dont think fact checking was the main reason, moreso that they decided to allow hate speech (e.g. They’re allowing targetted hate against LGBT groups).

      • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The anonymous fact-checking is the main thing PEOPLE took issue with. Like, oh I’m supposed to believe your anonymous fact-checkers know better than me or my trusted sources on what’s true/false, but you refuse to identify or provide the credentials of those fact-checkers, so their integrity and validity can be certified?

        But it’s not the anonymous strangers arbitrarily sifting the wheat from the chaff willy nilly, and with no evidence to support their claims, that were the problem /s. , The problem was CLEARLY the people who took issue with an anonymous rando who has the power to declare a reputable source of info is lying, can not be disputed on that front (even in the many instances of them being wrong), and whose credentials can not be verified but is still supposed to be arbitrarily accepted as the supreme arbiter of reality and fiction.

        Bought and paid for by a soulless corporation. I’ll take “extreme dought” for $500. I was more likely to believe in Santa Clause than an anonymous figure who had no credentials or checks and balances of any kind.

  • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    3 days ago

    According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

    So that is 51 times higher than usual? Am I mathing that correctly?

    I wish stories like this wouldn’t use percentages this way, and reported hard actual numbers to compare against.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      So true… When I see 100% more, I interpret it as 2x. But somewhere around, idk, maybe 300% I interpret “300% more” as 3x. I know that’s technically not correct, but it’s just where my brain goes. I think a good deal of people just throw around “n% more” and “n% as often” interchangeably without much thought.

      Luckily, the bigger the number the less of a difference between the two which is aligned with my brain using them the same.

      (And obviously, if it’s anything technical where it matters I would get clarification.)

      • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        And those are real users too. They are intching closer and close to just being a bot hellscape.

  • Ithorian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    3 days ago

    We all know that in the end only maybe 1 or 2% max will delete their account

    • ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.caEnglish
      112·
      3 days ago

      Exactly this. Wasn’t Netflix going to sink after everyone cancelled when password sharing was banned? But everyone I know just ended up buying extra logins…

    • s_s@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That’s fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    126·
    2 days ago

    he’s replacing it with community notes, which is a good thing. the problem i have with Facebook and Instagram is all the useless junk videos that i didn’t ask for and it keeps showing me

      • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Community saw this as a potential note and agreed that it isn’t provably true and doesn’t contribute to the post. Rejected and it won’t be shown.

        If you think this method doesn’t work I have an entire Wikipedia to show you.

          • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            The bad faith actors used to outnumber the good. That’s why Wikipedia’s reputation has never recovered, and they’ve never been able to beat the allegations. However, Wikipedia fixed what was wrong with their system of citing and verifying information contributed by others years ago. And X’s Community Notes system has a similar mechanism in place that has proven to be equally as effective and verifiable.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Since Facebook market place is the defacto classified now I keep my account around to buy and sell. My feed is full of AI generated images related to anything I search on market place. Right now it is all trucks because I was looking for truck tires.

  • rickdg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    3 days ago

    Once these platforms are perceived as a way for people to make a living somehow, they ain’t leaving. That’s why nice places like mastodon stay niche. Without virality, people don’t see the upside for them. They want a grift they can understand.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That is sounding more and more like a benefit to me. Social media that functions as social media for humans and not just another giant corporate surveillance and marketing machine wearing a fun app costume.

      • rickdg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I get it, but I also understand people that need to go “this is me, can I have some money?” on social media.

        • Zink@programming.devEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Oh yeah no disagreement there. The way that social media of all types democratizes content creation and celebrity status is great.

          For me personally, the YouTube model is great where individuals can basically produce their own TV show or documentaries. But all the other big corporate social media services are meh in comparison. When it comes to interaction rather than consuming, that’s when I love Lemmy.

  • gubblebumbum@lemm.eeEnglish
    121·
    3 days ago

    It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones and cant be uninstalled and in some phones they dont preinstall the main fb app instead they’d have something like ‘facebook manager’ or ‘something service’ which only shows up in app list when you select the “show system apps” option.