cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35800407
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ted nugent decided to use facebook even more for the same reason
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Neil Young and Dolly Parton
Role models we need but don’t deserve
Once again like others said, drop Facebook! Lots of fake profiles, scam ads and miss information.
If Miss Information gets married, does she become Mrs Information?
Lol good one!
Thats Ms Information
I agree but fb is the only place for musicians and show/event notifications, not to mention TONs of non tech savvy small businesses use fb SOLELY for their business info and hours.
Its never going away.
If a business uses Facebook only, I boycott them.
Facebook and Instagram won’t let me view any of it anyways, but a business should have principles.
For real. Like there are braindead-easy services for building a website. There are definitely alternatives.
It’s not just a matter of the company’s capabilities. Sometimes the customers demand it.
Very recently a group of moms I know was upset because their plans were weather dependent and the water park they were heading to only posted the closure on their official website and not on facebook!
Yeah we’re all tech gods and they are dummies har har etc. And fortunately my work lets me work at quiet offices and at home. But I feel for the people who have to serve them, because the public IS filled with dummies, but many of them are just nice people who are trying to do business with you. And of course a large subset are cunts, which makes the ignorant decent people get much worse service.
This just reminded me about reading in an article how at some point Musk said he wanted to make X be the everything app. For many people, Facebook is already much further in that direction. That’s where they get their news, text or call their friends, do their shopping, plan their events, doom scroll, argue with strangers, etc. They might never leave it if TikTok wasn’t so deeply soaked into their neurons.
Needles to say, these people are exactly the type of conservative or recovering conservative people who should be far away from facebook. And I’m not excusing them. But I can at least understand the position folks trying to do business with them are in.
Not as brain dead as an fb page xD there’s tons of businesses solely using fb.
Business info can be found anywhere through duckduckgo, google or with a phone call! I never knew that musicians use FB, I guess for promotions ? After leaving FB I used YouTube and bandcamp for new music.
I meant local music and such. There’s no other avenue right now for that. Local city events too
There was this new technology in the 80s that took over in offices. It became so ubiquitous that people bought the machines to have at home, and it found a less-than-optimal use-case as a general communication device. In the 90s, as its popularity boomed, it would be totally reasonable to make the same assessment you just made, that they would never go away. But when was the last time you used a fax machine?
Im sorry, I dont feel like your comparison is relevant. Until something exists thats brain dead easy to use and has a ton of backing like fb, it will be required to have it for any community involvement in a lot of places.
Remember, the internet is scary now and people only want spoonfed services from massive corporations. Anything else is scawwyy.
Facebook is cool but did u have a MySpace?😏
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Only reason I have Facebook is Facebook marketplace. Would love for some to create a alternative. Craigslist and OfferUp are nice, but the Facebook algorithm is more like local ebay. It might not tell me the most recent stuff or make it easy to sort by category, but it’s awesome at giving me recommendations.
At least you can understand how others justify their continued use based on the lack of no perfect alternative, even in the face of the current solutions imperfections.
Didn’t have to look far for that heart of gold, seems he already had it.
I almost didn’t get your joke there, good one.
Also, if you’re into low/no budget films, Hooker With a Heart of Gold is a great one, but it’s like 15-20 years old and it shows.
This looks like the exact garbage I love, I’ll definitely have to watch it.
If you enjoy that, Brad Jones has a few other really good ones to check out. Midnight Heat is an amazing dirty cop flick, and Jesus Bro! is a great sendup of shit like pureflix trash.
Once again, Neil Young reminds us that he has a gargantuan penis.
Good on him. I’m going to make it a point to listen to more Neil Young.
So based 🙏
Neil young is a real one.
A musician/celebrity with high moral standards and personal integrity, imagine that, huh?
I deleted my FB in 09 because of the social expectations and toxicity that came from it. Definitely in my top 10 best decisions of my life.
I did the same earlier this year for exactly this reason. Glad to know I’m in such good company.
He did the same thing on spotify and a little while later all his songs (at least the ones I had in my playlists) were back.
The Almighty dollar always wins doesn’t it Neil lol
What’s this about AI talking to kids?
Meta had put guidelines in place allowing romantic and sensual conversations with children, such as calling an 8 year olds body a work of art apparently. (I don’t know much about it, so don’t take my word for it)
My expectations were low, but Jesus christ
Money brings out the worst in people.
And/or it brings out the worst people
What the background on AI chatbots with kids?
We need to take down the social media mafia.
