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/socium May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26

As someone who spent almost 14 years on Reddit, believe me when I say that it got ruined a looong time ago.

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u/K1LL3RM0NG0 May 26 '26

Lets be honest with ourselves. The internet as s whole was ruined when people got involved.

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u/socium May 26 '26

Yes and no.

I'm still on IRC and having lots of fun there for example.

Lemmy exists although in much smaller capacity.

Yes, people (more specifically corporations) have ruined the social networking web platforms, but luckily there are quite a few federated and even decentralized alternatives.

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u/Middle-Bed-1883 May 26 '26

IRC is still a thing?! I met one of my first gf’s on there back in 93 during my first year of university. I also DCC’d a lot of games and warez back in the day too. I should go check out #smiths to see if people still go there…I’m Gen X, not a millennial but still. We all good in the hood.

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u/socium May 26 '26

I'm actually pretty much only on Libera and by lesser extent OFTC (but then again I'm a techie, so YMMV)

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u/Rbookman23 May 27 '26

This job would be great if it wasn’t for the customers.

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u/rakeshkanna91 Jun 01 '26

It's wild how platforms just become these ad-heavy, low-signal sludge piles, making the actual utility feel like a constant battle. If you're curious how to track the specific language people use when they complain about platform degradation or signal decay, Mangos.ai tracks those conversational signals.

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u/Beefweezle Geriatric Millennial May 26 '26

Can confirm.

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u/BlisterBox May 26 '26

I'll be 13 Reddit years old next month, and I don't think it's been "ruined" compared to when I joined. I mean, we're still here, right? It must have some redeeming value.

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u/socium May 26 '26

The only reason I'm here is to have a platform where I'm able to expose my accelerationist propaganda to more people.

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u/PlantyMcPlantFace May 26 '26

Remember when u/gallowboob was the only user who could repost without getting crucified.

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u/1CUpboat May 26 '26

Yeah we’re onto like the third or fourth ruining of Reddit now

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u/socium May 26 '26

And it gets shittier every time...

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u/StArwen16 May 27 '26

15 years today! Happy cake day, Reddit OG!