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    From Jim Jackson@jj@franjam.org.uk to comp.misc on Mon Apr 22 09:45:41 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc


    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
    to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant
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  • From Rich@rich@example.invalid to comp.misc on Mon Apr 22 17:33:01 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:

    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
    to see painfull.

    This is to be expected. Facebook's sole purpose for existing is to
    market your eyeballs to advertisers. The more that they can keep you
    "in facebook" the more money they make from those advertisers that want
    to buy your eyeball time. Therefore it is profitable for them to
    "suggest" all likes of "other things" for you to "be interested" in on facebook, because if they do so, some percentage of those ads will
    result in more facebook usage (translation: more eyeballs sold to advertisers).

    It may not work for you, but for the multi-million others that they
    sent the same 'invites' too, a large enough share of them did "join"
    yet another group such that facebook's profit increased, so from
    facebook's perspective, the attempt was a positive gain for them.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    I saw facebook as nothing more than the "AOL" of the internet. AOL was crapola during its time, just as facebook is crapola now. So I never
    joined. Still don't have a facebook account.
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  • From The Real Bev@bashley101@gmail.com to comp.misc on Mon Apr 22 20:34:37 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
    to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant

    No need. It sucks. I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet
    as I can, but it's miles away.

    If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension.
    It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like
    anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post. You should already
    be using adblock plus...
    --
    Cheers, Bev
    This is Usenet. We *are* the trained body for dealing
    with psychotics. -- A. Dingley


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  • From The Real Bev@bashley101@gmail.com to comp.misc on Mon Apr 22 20:42:10 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 4/22/24 10:33 AM, Rich wrote:

    I saw facebook as nothing more than the "AOL" of the internet. AOL was crapola during its time, just as facebook is crapola now. So I never
    joined. Still don't have a facebook account.

    I do because the people in the usenet groups I subscribed to migrated.
    Some refused, and they've just disappeared. With some effort you can eliminate pretty much everything except posts from 'friends' and perhaps 'friends of friends', but you're only likely to see the posts from the
    first 30 that you've designated as favorites or something like that.

    THAT's the worst thing. You can only see a subset of what you want to
    see and you don't see stuff from random people -- which is one of the
    good things about usenet. You get to meet interesting strangers.

    Facebook sucks, but it's pretty much the only crap game in town.
    --
    Cheers, Bev
    This is Usenet. We *are* the trained body for dealing
    with psychotics. -- A. Dingley


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  • From nospam@nospam@example.net to comp.misc on Tue Apr 23 11:59:57 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc



    On Mon, 22 Apr 2024, Jim Jackson wrote:


    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
    to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant


    Don't use it. ;)

    My sins are the fediverse and usenet instead.
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.misc on Tue Apr 23 15:00:13 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
    to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant

    No need. It sucks. I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet
    as I can, but it's miles away.

    If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension.
    It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post. You should already
    be using adblock plus...


    I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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  • From The Real Bev@bashley101@gmail.com to comp.misc on Tue Apr 23 09:59:56 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 4/23/24 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
    to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant

    No need. It sucks. I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet
    as I can, but it's miles away.

    If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension.
    It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like
    anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post. You should already
    be using adblock plus...

    I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.

    They made him change its name and they've done something to disable some
    of the more useful bits, but it's probably not worth their time and
    effort. What IS amazing is that the adblock* extensions still work. And what's more amazing is that people complain about ads and don't use
    adblocks :-(
    --
    Cheers, Bev
    "One's chances of winning the lottery are not appreciably
    improved by actually buying a ticket."
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.misc on Tue Apr 23 17:10:08 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 16:59 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/23/24 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want >>>> to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant

    No need. It sucks. I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet >>> as I can, but it's miles away.

    If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension.
    It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like
    anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post. You should already
    be using adblock plus...

    I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.

    They made him change its name and they've done something to disable some
    of the more useful bits, but it's probably not worth their time and
    effort. What IS amazing is that the adblock* extensions still work. And what's more amazing is that people complain about ads and don't use
    adblocks :-(


    Figures. Maybe people are scared of adblockers?
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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  • From Jim Jackson@jj@franjam.org.uk to comp.misc on Tue Apr 23 17:54:05 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 2024-04-23, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
    stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
    to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant

    No need. It sucks. I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet
    as I can, but it's miles away.

    yes doesn't even compare :-(

    If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension.
    It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post. You should already
    be using adblock plus...

    I use ublock origin - and don't see many adverts. But thanks for the
    addon recommendation.


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  • From The Real Bev@bashley101@gmail.com to comp.misc on Tue Apr 23 12:48:18 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 4/23/24 10:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 16:59 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/23/24 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
    needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent >>>>> stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
    follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want >>>>> to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant

    No need. It sucks. I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet >>>> as I can, but it's miles away.

    If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension. >>>> It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like
    anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post. You should already >>>> be using adblock plus...

    I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.

    They made him change its name and they've done something to disable some
    of the more useful bits, but it's probably not worth their time and
    effort. What IS amazing is that the adblock* extensions still work. And
    what's more amazing is that people complain about ads and don't use
    adblocks :-(

    Figures. Maybe people are scared of adblockers?

    More likely they've never heard of them. There are tons of people who
    don't even know about settings/preferences -- for any of the software
    they use.
    --
    Cheers, Bev
    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again
    incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.misc on Tue Apr 23 20:00:09 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 19:48 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/23/24 10:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 16:59 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 4/23/24 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT): >>>>> On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson wrote:
    I know - don't use it! But ...

    Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
    Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I >>>>>> needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent >>>>>> stuff in my feed.

    Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to >>>>>> follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want >>>>>> to see painfull.

    The more I see of facebook the less I like.

    sorry for the rant

    No need. It sucks. I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet >>>>> as I can, but it's miles away.

    If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension. >>>>> It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like >>>>> anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post. You should already >>>>> be using adblock plus...

    I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.

    They made him change its name and they've done something to disable some >>> of the more useful bits, but it's probably not worth their time and
    effort. What IS amazing is that the adblock* extensions still work. And >>> what's more amazing is that people complain about ads and don't use
    adblocks :-(

    Figures. Maybe people are scared of adblockers?

    More likely they've never heard of them. There are tons of people who
    don't even know about settings/preferences -- for any of the software
    they use.


    Fair. Of course, that means Google fighting them backfired a bit.
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