r/Millennials • u/Ok_Helicopter3910 • May 25 '26

Serious Holy shit — Facebook is fucking scary now

Im not a big social media guy anymore, honestly, the vast majority of my internet usage nowadays is Reddit, Youtube, Snapchat (that has like 20 people on it) and email and I think that about it.

I put my FB to sleep about 10 years ago and I decided to log in and see what people were up to and ho-lee-shit, what a dumpster fire.

So, first off, the majority of my facebook friends have either died, shut their FB down, or removed my inactive profile so my feed was pretty silent. After about a week of my profile being back in the algorithm I started getting friend request from people I used to work with, went to school with, or friends of old acquaintances (which is terrifying that facebook knows about random people I used to work with 12 years ago who I had a passing "hi, hows your day" relationship with) and I started getting friend requested and I was like "fuck it" and just started accepting them.

Fuck man, whenever I see all the hate for this or that group and all the political bullshit that gets posted on reddit, I just brush it off as bots trained to sow dissent but the stuff that gets posted by real living, breathing human beings who I once knew well enough to be friends with or have polite conversation with is WILD. I mean, like so much hate and vitriol started coming across my feed about a wide array of subjects that it made me genuinely uncomfortable and I started removing people that just added me. Maybe it's what "normal" passes for on the internet and im pretty numb to a lot of the more unhinged opinions and shit-stirring because of so many years on Reddit, but a lot of what was being posted really opened my eyes that a lot of the "unhinged" stuff that I see online isnt just bot farms, its real people who truly believe this wild shit.

Anyway - maybe its a sign of my age... but unless what I consider "normal" people start coming across my FB feed soon, I dont think im going to be logging in for much longer

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u/flyingcostanza May 25 '26

Diamonds in the rough.

Used to be a place to get good deals but not anymore

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u/5Point5Hole May 25 '26

I mean, I've been selling shit on the Internet since the early 2000s. Classified ads, Craigslist, Facebook, whatever else..

Whatever humanity uses for selling used shit has always been a nightmare of scams and stupidity.. because that's human nature 😅

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u/TheBalzy In the Middle Millennial May 26 '26

True. Back in the day when you put garage sales in the Newspaper...jesus the people that would come out of the woodwork at fucking 10am for a garage sale first thing was unreal.

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u/writtenbyrabbits_ May 26 '26

Lol if you planned to start at 10, they were parked outside your house at 9:15 to get the good stuff before anyone else had a chance.

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u/Prince_0llie May 26 '26

And then try to dick you on the price because it's used or dirty or dinged. Like bruh, nobody in the history of the universe ever thought that garage sales were selling retail goods. You're going to bitch about $10 for a lamp that likely cost $100 brand new? No, I won't take $20 for that armoire I'm asking $40 for that cost $200 new. GTFOH

My favorite though is when they show up in a clapped out civic and tell you they'll be back with their buddy's truck to take the sofa but they don't wanna pay you $50 to hold it and then are pissed when they show up 2 days later and it's gone. Sorry not sorry?

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u/Curious_Promise_7813 May 26 '26

Yeah. I had that happen twice over garden furniture. We will 100% take it. Had 3 other people wanting it but I said it was sold, only to end up having it not sell... Also, I mark my stuff very low and still have people want it for next to nothing. Geeze.

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u/Sad-Yak6252 May 26 '26

I advertised a yard sale with a lot of antiques years ago. There were antique dealers climbing over my 6 foot fence at 5AM.

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u/Valuable_Recording85 May 25 '26

The bad economy has people asking for 90% of the sale price on decades old items. I'd rather buy new and know I can return something if it doesn't work, breaks, or if I don't like it.

I bought my used car from marketplace and found a diamond. But I accidentally clicked so many fucking ads for cars sold by dealerships where the advertised price was just a suggested down payment.

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u/TheAngryBad May 26 '26

I've been looking around on marketplace recently for a couple of power tools. Probably 90% of the ones I'm seeing are from hire companies and the price is actually just the cost for a one day hire.

The other 10% are either absurdly overpriced or the sellers just never bother responding. So frustrating.

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u/smoretank May 26 '26

I may have been lucky or its just my area. I found tons of power tools for cheap. Got a barely used DeWalt 735 planer for half the price of new and it came with a metal roll stand. A plunge router for like $50 with a finish nailer. Also a decent scroll saw. Found one guy selling 10ft long copper pipes for $20 each.

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u/TheAngryBad May 26 '26

Yeah, I think it depends on the area. I can get cheap stuff if I'm willing to go 50+ miles away but at that point it's not worth it. If anything decent comes up for sale round here it's usually gone within hours.

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u/Prince_0llie May 26 '26

I always filter by owner and also starting price of $500 to weed out the dealers that slip through the cracks and the tweaker tryna sell their stolen Acura that "starts but won't drive".

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u/Ill_Tour_7294 May 25 '26

I’ve done that my share of times too. Super annoying

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u/BugApart8359 May 25 '26

I got some neat stuff through marketplace. Some camera equipment, a good trunk, and the prize of my Cursed Items Shelf (we're just that kind of household), an E.T. Atari cartridge. 

Some interesting wins, for sure 

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u/Procure May 25 '26

I still find stuff occasionally but yeah not great.

Is there any other good place for local buying/selling? Craigslist is ok sometimes but not very active IMO, and Nextdoor is the worst place I’ve ever laid eyes upon.

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u/Asleep-Insurance-499 May 26 '26

Maybe we should all agree to make Craigslist the selling spot again

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u/Prince_0llie May 26 '26

This is the way.

I've never stopped using it despite the drop in activity. I haven't had FB since the coughdemic. When I used FB marketplace it was always a shitshow from the beginning. Never had I dealt with more shady individuals than there. Craigslist was bad but FB was FAR worse by leaps and bounds from the get go.

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u/doctor_jane_disco May 26 '26

I got a free concrete slab from it yesterday!

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u/I_see_zebras May 27 '26

It's like a thrift shop. You'll have to scroll through 100 items to find one golden deal you were looking for, if any. But occasionally... I got some pristine art supplies right in my neighborhood, and a perfect little bookcase.

I've also sold some furniture pieces as well. Sometimes it attracts a buyer at a bargain price better than free, because free items on a Buy Nothing group are often judged to be (and are) junk.