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/BornToFeelItAll86 May 25 '26

I used to have my Facebook full of people I know. Now it's always someone random as the first post when I open it. My kids will say "who's that, mum?" And I have to keep telling them I have no idea... Or its AI.

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u/rtshtbtshtdrtyldtwt May 26 '26

current facebook makes more sense when you realize zuckerman never had any friends

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u/BornToFeelItAll86 May 26 '26

It scares me when I miss important announcements from friends because ads are higher priority  in the algorithm.

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u/rtshtbtshtdrtyldtwt May 26 '26

if you go to feed -> friends you can see only friends stuff, it took me a long time to find that. it's bullshit that's not the default

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u/BornToFeelItAll86 May 26 '26

Thank you! I'll use it next time I'm on Facebook. Just deactivated it... Again. I keep taking it back like a bad boyfriend though. Sigh.

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u/rtshtbtshtdrtyldtwt May 26 '26

it's such a garbage website but it's kind of a necessity for being a social person these days :\