I regularly get despicable garbage on Facebook, for instance:
- “Historical” content that’ mostly AI slop, illustrated by “photographs” that are readily identified by Google as generated by their AI;
- Scam ads, e.g., advertising a business that never existed in the first place, with a “going out of business” once-in-a-lifetime sale;
- Scam ads, trying to entice me to download, e.g., malicious browser extensions;
- Catfishing contact requests;
- Contact requests from cloned accounts, including cloned accounts of friends who, sadly, passed away years ago.
Meanwhile, just the other day, Facebook apparently lost all my prior notifications. Not sure if it is a site-wide problem or specific to my account, but it was annoying either way.
And then… this. I regularly repost my blog entries to Facebook. Over the past year, they randomly removed three of them, for allegedly violating their famous “community standards”. (Because Meta cares so much about “community”. Right.) The three that they removed were
- A post celebrating the fact that my Web site was 30 years in existence;
- A whimsical post about the evils of chemistry;
- A post about Lindsey Graham suggesting that Trump should run again in 2028.
So why do I even bother with Facebook, then? Well, a good question with a simple answer: there are plenty of people — old friends, classmates — that I’d lose touch with otherwise.
That does not mean that I have to like the experience.
Anyhow, now I wonder if this post will also be banned as “spam” by their broken algorithms. Until then, here’s an image of our newest cat.
Marcel may be young (just over 3 months) but he already understands a lot about the world. Including Facebook. His facial expression says it all.