Mine seem to be evenly divided between cute cat videos and cute chicks in bikinis. Much the same thing actually.
I’m getting a bunch of clips from MASH. I do appreciate it. I seem to lose interest if I try to watch full episodes now.
Just put FBP on my home computer after one too many reels featuring actual reality competition footage with obviously AI-generated garbage edited in. I wish Simon Cowell would sue the idiots spreading these but I’m guessing they’re protected under fair use.
I probably wouldn’t have bothered with FBP if I could find another way to keep idiotic Instagram reels off Facebook. Couldn’t find a way to block Instagram accounts on Facebook and telling Facebook I didn’t want to see those reels didn’t help much.
Good old F.B. Purity came through again, after less than a week. No More Reels (for a while).
Just today I started getting a bunch of deepfake ads with fake celebrity endorsements. Several times I’ve been hit with Elon Musk finds the cure for diabetes.
Meta keeps trying to make FB behave badly for users of F.B. Purity. In my case, they keep trying to feed me stuff I’m not interested in, FBP intercepts it, and after a couple of hundred of those, FB decides that I don’t have any other posts in my feed, and tells me to find more friends. Bastards.
Whew. The other night I texted my boyfriend (via SMS not FB Messenger) that I was painting 3" wood blocks with a 1" sponge brush. The next time I opened up the Facebook app, some 20 minutes later, my first suggested Reels was that of someone painting a 3" wood block with a 1" sponge brush. I kid you not! It spooked the heck out of me.
Techie kind of question: Is there an easy way to expand the teeny-tiny postage-stamp-size little rectangle in the middle of my screen? Why can’t they make reels full-size? Pisses me off sometimes.
I don’t have them in my feed (FB Purity), but I thought there was a way to make them full size. I do see if I click on Videos, then Reels I get the full sized ones instead of the preview sized ones that would show up in your feed.
I see lots of hot girls. Sometimes things like engine blocks being thrown into an industrial shredder. Sometimes I’ll watch (yeah I’m sure that’s feeding the algorithm), most times not.
Sometimes I’ll get a regular post in my feed that looks like it might be interesting, some bit of celebrity trivia or whatever- but clicking on it triggers a bogus warning about getting a virus and the only thing you can do is go to Task Manager and end the browser session. Moral of the story- if you have the least doubt about the safety of a link, click on the comments first, they’ll generally have warnings from other users.
That sounds like malware on your device, or at the very least, you’re clicking on a link that takes you off of facebook. I’d be surprised if there’s anything on facebook itself that would set off virus warnings like that.
Also, and just in general, hover over the link to see where it’s taking you. Don’t click on something, especially not a click bait something, that takes you off of facebook.
And even more importantly, if you click on a link (even if it’s ‘still’ on facebook) and you’re presented with a login prompt, leave. You’re already logged in so if it’s asking you to log in again, it’s probably a BS page.
This was really common back on myspace with the ‘Check out the pictures from the party last night, I can’t believe she took her shirt off at the bar’ posts. You’d click on it, it took you to a real-looking fake myspace log in page, you’d enter your credentials so you could see boobs…and now you’re going to get hacked.
They send you more of whatever you click on. It’s the algorithm. For me, at first it was lots of sharks, snakes and alligators. Then math problems that required BEDMAS. Lately it’s women with big tits.
And seven fingers.
Update: FB just doesn’t know what to do with me.
Lately all I get are what appear to be AI images of anatomically-impossible women.Not just three-breasted (!) but just too small waist and other near-impossibilities that just look “off”..
MAKE IT STOP
Maybe don’t click on them. Or even pause to look a5 them.
I never ever click (except for that one model railroad one). But If they think I don’t scroll fast enough, the machines have already won.
I have started clicking “don’t show me more like these”, which might work, bu also acknowledged that I looked at them.
Yes, it’s a game you really can’t win, except by trying to block them through a 3rd party extension. Or, as Joshua finally realized, the only way to win is not to play.
The other day I saw one row of Reels, and thought that Facebook had made another clandestine change. But there was only one (usually I got two per day) so I decided to ignore it rather than clicking on “show fewer of these.” Now I think it was just a fluke, because I haven’t seen any since.