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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
I have a facebook account but don't use it for anything other than looking at restaurant menus (ones that are to cheap to setup their own website). I sure wouldn't put anything on it about me or a picture of me.
I thought it was rather odd that a homosexyouwell gentleman from a different country wanted to be friends. It was probably about that time that I stopped using it.
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Yeah I used to get that too, except its random ladies that for whatever reason have sought me out to do them in the pooper. Which helped me realize I had a privacy setting set wrong, whoops, click, fixed. Sorry ladies.
Few years ago I was getting these awesome ads for 'helium flow meters' and 'whole site power regulation'. Of course I clicked on them to find out more which begat more cool ads. I sort of felt bad that advertisers were paying to get my eyes on those ads, but not that bad. I'm still not sure what is special about helium flow meters or who would want one, but they look to be well made.
Then one day it all changed. Instead of industrial ads it was 'kustom choppers', bars 3000 miles away that featured lady mma fights, and worst of all ads for hooters (those vacant eyes!)
Facebook flipped who it thought I was, from wrong to wrong. Actually gave me a bit of hope that the best ai there is had no clue at all what sort of advertising opportunity I was.
I'm pretty wary of friending people on fb. My bar is to only see people I want to hear from and so far it works pretty well. Someone starts annoying me they get unfriended. Other thing that helps is using the button to tell fb an ad is annoying - zap and its gone forever.
Even so... something happened to my facebook this spring. The selection of posts became really dismal, they started pushing a bunch of video and it all really turned me off and made me tune out. Was like they're feeding me all the gritty nasty stuff from the bottom of the barrel - like I've worn out my welcome.
There's a few small groups I follow for local mountain bike trail building and they're good people, but for the most part my facebook feed is a pretty ugly thing these days. Sort of drove me away along with the people whose posts I actually enjoyed.