: Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    What do people do there that is so harmful to their mental health? I just follow what relatives are up to and read the latest hobby/town gossip

    • AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I honestly don’t know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that’s with an ad blocker.

      I don’t understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it’s a “boiling frog” situation, or maybe they’ve developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it’s completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn’t have believed 10 years ago.

    • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Originally the criticism was that you see the highlights of other people’s lives and then compare that to your everyday life and that’s depressing.

      Nowadays I think it’s all the politics being injected everywhere. Me? I look for cars and car parts on groups. That’s about it.

      • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Literally all I see are ads, I guess you need friends for it to be addictive or something…

        I really wish my city would get off its collective ass and stop using marketplace.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 days ago

          All I see if I scroll is AI slop. Hundred different variations of one theme or another in different groups or pages I’ve never subscribed to.

          I go straight to Marketplace or whatever group I need and that’s it these days.

          • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 days ago

            Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being ‘Amen’ spam. Bots on top of bots. It’s just fucking dystopian.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      google “facebook mental health” and you’ll get an idea. if you’re fine using it, that’s great. but not everyone is like you. and the “i’m fine with this–everyone else should be too!” attitude is one thing i saw constantly on facebook

      • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn’t exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They “do their own research”, of course.

        So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          that’s only a small part of it. the bigger issue is that people are just generally assholes on the internet, even your not crazy relatives. so for me the less digital socialization the better. lemmy is the only social media i do now (not having a profit motive helps some), but i have dialed it back like 99% since peak reddit.