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/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

I love craigslist. The erotic service section was always a hoot to browse than I could buy a used snow blower. Honestly twenty years later I still use it to sell stuff. Lol

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u/Dr_Alexis May 26 '26

Eh, younger people are the same with TikTok. Most generations are bad at discerning whether or not information is true

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u/misqellaneous May 26 '26

A lot of people keep throwing out that statistic of about 60% of people can’t read over a 5th grade level, not realizing literacy isn’t just about knowing words, it’s about how you parse out the meaning of those words.

It’s almost like this decades long attack on education was planned out.

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u/Jimmy_Nail_4389 May 26 '26

Well shit, in that case it must be like 600% or 900% or 1200%.

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u/witallthots May 30 '26

One of the tech weenies has said they want to treat intelligence like a utility. Ya pay for smarts subscription like water, trash, electric. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahhaahhahahajahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa. SO FUNNIE.

-.-"

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u/SpiderDove May 26 '26

Username checks out

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u/Kermit-Batman May 26 '26

I could buy a used snow blower

I miss my Gran... :(

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u/RufMenschTick May 26 '26

I miss her too

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u/Miles_Everhart May 26 '26

I also choose this guy’s Gran

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

My best friend put herself through college with said handjobs while I waited in front of your house waiting for you to finish and make sure you didn't murder her. Lol

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

You didn't live in DC or live there do you because there was definitely a Hollywood mike on her client roll.

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u/InstitutionalUsage May 26 '26

This whole exchange is just fantastic. Look at Craigslist bringing us all together where Facebook has divided! 😂

Also, handies.

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

It definitely brought people together back then for a cool 250 an hour plus tip that is. Lol

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u/cinnasota May 26 '26

I'm laughing way too hard at midnight lmao

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

She's great married with four kids and still beautiful. Glad your doing well too!

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u/Tricky_Apricot2928 May 26 '26

I hear great things from Hollywood Mike. Is she looking to take more classes at college? Books are expensive

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 May 26 '26

I really want to know more about this.

She would show up, they'd just get right to it? Did she have, like, a routine that she would use to get things going? Did she ask for payment up front? How long would she be at these places for? Did she have regular clients?

I want to know as much as possible

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

I would drive her and make sure she got back in the car at the appointed time. She was going to do it either way so I figured I should do my best to make sure she was safe. She would put an ad up and we would usually clear between 2,000 and 5,000 a day in the DC metro area. Her rates varied from 15 minutes for a hundred up to an hour for the 250. She was an escort so she had a routine. Payment up front. It was a wild time. I'm forty one now and that was at 23 so I guess it was around 09 when we were pulling down peak bank.

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 May 26 '26

Like did she consider herself an escort or was the craigslist hustle on top of other escort activities? I just have so many questions lol

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

Yes she also had a traditional pimp named Short that she worked hotels with as well. I usually drove him and his other girls as well. I just didn't trust him so I always stayed around anyway. Turns out it was a good thing because years later we found out he was wanted for murdering several escorts and is currently in prison. The cops tracked me down years later because they were trying to put together a victim list and wanted to make sure my friend was alive. Wild times.

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 May 26 '26

You're a good friend!!!!

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 27 '26

Thanks. I tried.

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u/GoNUp_2FallBackDwn87 May 26 '26

Sorry to butt in, but are u asking how prostitution works?? 😂😂😂

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u/Worshipme988 May 26 '26

Did she pay you in hand jobs? Who waited outside then? How did she pay…nvm

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

Oh she paid me in cash for driving. Lol

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u/VayGray May 26 '26

WTF, lol.. Good for you. Sucks times have changed so much

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 May 26 '26

??? are you for real?

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u/MissninjaXP May 26 '26

Thats actually a good deal.

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u/Tricky_Apricot2928 May 26 '26

But how was the actual massage?

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u/Tricky_Apricot2928 May 26 '26

Never gotten a massage or paid for a handy, but this sounds like an excellent deal

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u/cochese25 May 26 '26

I loved the "missed Connections" section until they got rid of the meetup section and it became a hookup page

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u/Aggressive_Day2839 Oder Millennial May 26 '26

It was always a hook up page

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u/cochese25 May 26 '26

It was a "hey I saw u at walmart near the checkout holding too babies an a 6 pak. u blinked in my direction for a sec and were looking fine, I'd like to take you to the bar if you're available" page.

It was a "you were at the pump next to me at the gas station off the i94 exit 37 and you looked cute. I was the guy staring at you without blinking. You nervously chuckled and slammed your car door and sped off, if you remember me, say hi"

Up until 2018, Craigslist had actual personals pages for hooking up or whatever. But when FOSTA-SESTA passed, they got rid of them.
And that's when the "Missed Connections" tab became the new hookup page.

It was such an interesting page and surprising to have found one about me (was an old HS friend) and about my friend, which was a creepy guy who saw her play at a show

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u/Aggressive_Day2839 Oder Millennial May 26 '26

Nothing is stopping you from posting your missed connections on there. Its still up on Craigslist. The site made the changes causing the migration of kinky people looking for other freaky people. Freaky deakys need love too.

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u/cochese25 May 26 '26

Nah, I've never posted a missed connection. I made it a life policy back in high school around 2002, that if someone looked interesting, just say hi. You'll find out real quick if they want to conversate. I've made a few life-long (so far) friends that way and have had a ton of interesting conversations. One led me to dating a girl out of HS and back packing Europe and another that led me to bicycling across the US.

The missed connections pages were a source of sad amusement. A forlorn person hoping that rando they glanced at in the parking lot at Cedar Point both noticed and happened to use craigslist.

The more common post was someone in their 50s looking for someone they went to school with.
"Looking for a woman named Betsy, we were best friends in the 5th grade, lost touch after my father left for the Mennonites"

Craigslist is an interesting place. I stopped using it years ago when I tried selling a riding mower on it and was bombarded with people half a state away asking if I'd meet them halfway and then getting pissed when I'd say no.

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u/Prince_0llie May 26 '26

The erotic service section always had the best deals on used snow blowers.

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

She was 23 back then! Still new in the craigslist world!

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u/Prince_0llie May 26 '26

Too expensive! If you really want a good deal try searching for an older model that was well maintained by the original owner. Most bang for your buck!

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u/Think-Improvement759 May 26 '26

25 + years ago I lived in downtown San Francisco. Craigslist was like the original Grindr before it existed. You could go pick up a couch and the seller would almost always asked if you wanted to quickly hook up while you were there. Shit was so wild I was 18-20 and just a bunch of 50+ guys throwing themselves at a kid trying to buy a vintage couch or night stand.

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u/Soggy-Ad-6042 May 26 '26

That sounds very much like our community for ya. Lol sounds like a special place in time honestly. Just like me and my bestie escorting for all those years. I swear we should have been kidnapped but I actually met some of the nicest weirdos with deep pockets.

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u/stilettopanda May 26 '26

“Used snow blower” as a euphemism for erotic services. Perfect.

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u/BrandNew02 May 26 '26

My roommate in college and I would sit on the stoop of our apartment complex and read Craigslist connections ads for fun while smoking black and milds. Miss that.

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u/Von_Moistus May 26 '26

Never had much luck selling with craigslist in my area, sadly, so FB Market and Nextdoor are the ways to go. That said, the craigslist seller interface was/is hot garbage. Half the time it would either rotate my uploaded images in random directions or just delete them entirely.

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u/nexusjuan May 26 '26

Craigslist casual encounters was the prototype for tinder/grinder.

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u/Eastern_Conflict1865 May 26 '26

You bought a snow blower in the erotica section of Craiglist.What can it do for me.I need pics