So while we're talking Facebook a sec, I wanna tell a story about how Facebook helped facilitate my ongoing trauma post-August 2017.
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I've been wondering a lot about this lately, and it's a big part of why I've decided to basically abandon Facebook as a way to stay in touch with people. It's just WAY too unreliable in terms of what you can count on people to see, and it's gotten a good bit worse over the years.
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The timeline is fundamentally dishonest, and I hold any and all people who work at Facebook responsible for not being accountable for the inevitable damage this has done over the years, especially to people who depend on geographically diverse groups of friends.
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I'm gonna go with the latter, because I miss *so much* on Facebook and *not* for the reasons I miss stuff on Twitter (i.e. bandwidth).
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The amount of highly relevant (life-altering, -threatening, etc) content FB has buried or omitted from my feed stuns me.
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I had a lot of posts like that in the period after the election - not to say I went through anything close to what you did, but it lasted probably a eyar. No one responded to the posts themselves but I'd hear whispers that, because of them, people were worried about me
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I don't know what prevented people from actually reaching out in my case. I think it was that they thought I'd ask more of them than they were capable of giving, or maybe that I seemed fragile and they didn't want to break me? Or maybe I just didn't sound fun to be around
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In any case yeah, I feel this very much
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Wow... that question at the end is a gut-punch.
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BTW the algorithm favor stuff ppl interact with often so ppl posting serious stuff and infrequent are buried.. I had to manually filter my feed so I see friends first and no cat content
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God I hadn’t even thought about this. I just assumed people didn’t care, too.
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It’s definitely making choices about content; it’s not random.
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While the FB algorithm may be to blame, it's just as likely people avoided the posts. FB is another social media device used to distract, insulate and sugar coat people's ordinary and often painfully boring lives. No time for honest human moments. /2¢
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I hope you feel ok by now. I've felt in a similar boat for other reasons. That sucks, but i take it more as human limitation due to a self centered culture, a reflex to temper empathy rather than apathy, an exhausted lifestyle rather than laziness... Be well.
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My most profound sympathy to you, and empathy for the wondering.
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