I had no idea there was a murmurs related fb group. But I noticed changes there I didn’t like. They seemed to be organising my friends’ contact lists, pushing people/groups of their choosing to the forefront and making me search for people I knew. The whole thing was getting creepy. When my 1st grandson was born I announced only his first and middle names and date. Same with the second.
Later my daughter thanked me, she didn’t want her newborn’s photo online or their location. Facebook was starting to feel sleazy to me. I very rarely post photos at all. I did post a few, just to convince people that my almost black hair is now mostly ice white.
My kids still post photos on there but they are adults and in any case they never posted half naked pissed off their heads pics, even in their teen twinkie years. They weren’t Mormon but they kept their clothes on.
Facebook gives me the creeps. I don’t like anything about it now. Maybe if I was looking for a long lost friend and other ways weren’t helping I’d go there but yes, it’s become shit.
Several months ago, during my weekly cleaning of my townhouse (vacuuming, sweeping, etc.), I grabbed a Swiffer wipe for my kitchen floor, noticed that there were only two Swiffer wipes left in the box, and silently thought to myself, “I need to buy another box of Swiffer wipes next time I’m at the grocery store.”
When I logged on to Facebook an hour later, I saw ads for Swiffer wipes on my news feed.
You’re a member of the Murmurs related FB group (R.E.M. Fans United) and I thought you took part in a thread long ago where someone asked about what our screen names were at Murmurs.
I’ve never had a Facebook account. It was tempting a few times to maybe reach old friends, but invariably I would hear mostly bad things about it from users and shy away. After the disinformation during the past few elections was uncovered, I can’t see ever being there now.
Facebook sucks because stupid people have ruined it for those of us that used it properly. My account just got blocked for trying to post a music video in a group having to do with MUSIC! Someone also hacked my Dating profile, and when I tried to fix it, an error message would come up. I tried several times, but the error never went away. I am therefore leaving Facebook permanently. It’s just no longer fun.
Facebook restricted my account for 24 hours because I shared a Discogs link to the first Bauhaus album as a reply to someone’s comment on a music group that I belong to, and the album cover violates nudity standards.
Oh well. Lol. I’m halfway tempted to pull the plug on all of that nonsense and just ditch Facebook in general.
I use facebook to keep in touch with long distance friends & relatives, but I’ve learnt not to fully trust it. There are scammers, hackers, phonies & spam.
I miss MySpace circa 2005. It was miles ahead of Facebook. It was a room of your own that you could invite people into. On Facebook we are just billboards floating in front of one another but mostly for the real Facebook customers which are advertising corporations.
Facebook is Starbucks. When you are in certain places it is predictable and it will have to do. Sites like Murmurs are the locally owned really good coffee shop.
The thing I like about this format is that, unlike Facebook or MySpace, it’s a public space where we can come together rather than a bunch of individual spaces that each belong to one person. It feels less fragmented to me.
I feel similarly. That being said, I had some time in a publicly accessible PC the other day, did what I had to do and, just to pass some time, came here to Murmurs to read some. I won’t lie: I was a bit shocked to see I could read the entire contents of the site without logging in. I’m automatically registered here in my own PC every time I access the site, but I just didn’t log there and only realized this after a while. This seemed a bit… too public. I’m really glad to be a part of this community, but I wonder if it should be read by just everyone.
Where was your sage advice when I started Facebook? I’m only on there for family mostly…now. I really only talk to people via messenger now.
Metaverse really kinda scares me. I’m serious. If you get a chance, y’all need to see “Surrogates” a movie where people have younger, more beautiful versions of themselves as avatars living a “great life”. It stars Bruce Willis, but I swear it really is decent.
I use Facebook for my artwork. Necessity. But I also am in touch with people from diapers to my most recent friends. What pisses me off and scares me about fb is when I signed up, I gave a fake birthday. Well guess what happens every year on my real birthday, fb is announcing it!!! HUH??? How did they get it?
Just speaking for a friend of mine that’s a published author. She decided she didn’t need FB as part of her marketing. The main reason being, she found herself unable to focus and felt FB was fracturing her mind so she deactivated her account. Not trying to convince you otherwise but below is a link where she talks about it and another is an article from The Guardian that echoes those sentiments. As for your birthday, I have no idea how that happened but there is a way to turn that feature off so your birthday isn’t announced. At least I was able to do so.
Thanks i’ll read the articles but its not the fact that they announce birthdays, it is how did they snoop and get my real one when i did not provide it? I gave tham Miracle Chicken’s birthday!