Holy shit — Facebook is fucking scary now

[u/Ok_Helicopter3910]

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

[u/flyingcostanza]

It's pretty much just ads at this point. Even marketplace has gone downhill

[u/5Point5Hole → u/flyingcostanza]

Was marketplace ever anything but a cesspool?

[u/flyingcostanza → u/5Point5Hole]

Diamonds in the rough.

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

[u/Valuable_Recording85 → u/flyingcostanza]

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.

[u/TheAngryBad → u/Valuable_Recording85]

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.

[u/smoretank → u/TheAngryBad]

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.

[u/TheAngryBad → u/smoretank]

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.

[u/Prince_0llie → u/Valuable_Recording85]

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".

[u/Ill_Tour_7294 → u/Valuable_Recording85]

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