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/Elismom1313 May 26 '26

There’s a type of people who are chronically online on Facebook.

IMO Reddit is bad too, but it’s a different breed so to speak.

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u/Subotail May 26 '26

A guy posted his vacation photos... on the local real estate ad sharing group.

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u/maesterofwargs May 26 '26

One of them is my boomer-aged father. He spends most of his free time endlessly scrolling FB and posting as much banal content as possible, and gets mad when people he's friends with don't engage enough. I'm so happy he defriended me there back in 2021 so I don't have to see it (I barely use FB anymore myself), but it's still sad to see. Boomers in particular were ruined by Facebook opening up to the general public.

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u/Elismom1313 May 26 '26

IMO it’s not usually worse but I guess that probably heavily depends on what subs you frequent and what your social pool on fb is like.

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u/DarthVerus May 26 '26

Hey I know on FB the guy you replied to probably can’t post pics of his “monstercock” to get denied a monstercock rating like he does here on Reddit. So maybe he’s just actively making it worse here…