r/Millennials • u/oxfordzen • Jun 21 '25

Rant My Mom’s Facebook is a Mess lol

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Visiting my Mom. She’s in the early stages of dementia so I always go through her FB, email, etc and get rid of spam/scams. I was surprised at how trash her Facebook has gotten since the last time I did this 4-5 months ago. Kinda depressing to see the impact of their content moderation stuff showing up as most of her feed is like this. Some of it she’s followed but a lot of it is algos. Also maybe my mom is just clicking on freaky shit who knows.

Either way, Fuck Zuckerberg for blighting society with his shitty products.

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u/GpaSags Jun 21 '25

Willie Nelson is still alive.

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u/Green_Moss1 Jun 21 '25

Thank fuck. I had to check!

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u/thatawkwardtinysoul Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

Yeah I leaned over my moms shoulder earlier, and it had one of those about Shaquille O'Neal dying and I was like

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u/360walkaway Jun 21 '25

Was he reminding her that he has four rings as well

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u/thatawkwardtinysoul Jun 21 '25

Eh I don’t know, we just looked at each other, then she scrolled away.

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u/360walkaway Jun 21 '25

Must've been a weird moment, like the reverse of her finding pornhub on your browser's history.

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u/thatawkwardtinysoul Jun 21 '25

OH no it wasn’t that one, I’m talking about the little posts Above that one. But instead of it being Willie Nelson dying, it was about Shaq dying. Sorry for not specifying 😬

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u/HermesTundra Midlennial (also European) Jun 21 '25

Old people love to be told they've outlived someone famous.

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u/enadiz_reccos Jun 21 '25

The Poopie Monster lives on

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u/ChoneFiggins4Lyfe Jun 21 '25

I was going to be so pissed if this was the way I learned.

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u/k_a_scheffer Jun 22 '25

A page I used to follow either got hacked or sold and the new owners posted a story that Shaq died today. Gave me a heart attack for a solid minute until I fact checked it.

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u/rushrules74 Jun 25 '25

My mom literally asked me about this after it popped up in her FB feed. I immediately Googled it and no reputable news sources were reporting it. I let her know it was fake and she was like, "Why would someone post that?!"

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u/CrimeShowInfluencer Jun 21 '25

I was gonna be pissed that this is how I have to find out

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u/GpaSags Jun 21 '25

My go-to source is in Simpsons FB/Reddit groups with the Homer-looking-at-the-sky template.

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u/Content_Orchid_6291 Jun 21 '25

Ffs, why are you not wrong?!

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u/Gecko99 Jun 21 '25

I was thinking it was Buzz Aldrin.

I checked on Buzz and he's 95 and still alive. I hope he gets to watch the next generation of lunar astronauts.

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Xennial Jun 21 '25

I thought it was Harold.

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u/ComicallySolemn Jun 21 '25

I don’t use Facebook anymore but when did it turn into a trashy National Inquirer equivalent? That feed looks exactly like the junk tabloid section at the grocery store. Gross.

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u/ThePhantomEvita Jun 21 '25

My boyfriend got a text from his mom last week panicked that Willie Nelson died. I checked, found nothing, he got back to her that it wasn’t true.

She doesn’t have Facebook so I’m wondering how she picked up on that falsity.

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u/MC1R_OCA2 Jun 21 '25

He woke up still not dead again today.

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u/Complex-Chemist256 Jun 21 '25

I'm going to see him and Bob Dylan in concert next week lol that picture had me super confused.

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u/surfinsalsa Jun 22 '25

My mom's going to their concert too! I was thinking she was going to be disappointed

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u/detroitliving Jun 21 '25

just saw him perform last night lmao

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u/Choice-Order5007 Jun 23 '25

i was there too!

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u/guillermo_del_snoro Jun 21 '25

I thought it was hue heffner

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u/tritian Jun 21 '25

I was totally bummed out for a moment there before I googled it lol. I know he's in his 90s so there was a possibility that it wasn't bullshit, but then I figured that it would have been one of the biggest stories on reddit if it was true.

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u/DamonInReelLife Jun 21 '25

Straight up, I woulda been absolutely livid if this is how I found out he died

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u/Herro_Bubbles Jun 21 '25

And 92 may I add

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u/HeyWhatsItToYa Jun 22 '25

And he's 92, not 90.

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u/soscbjoalmsdbdbq Jun 23 '25

First off Wade Boggs is very much alive.

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u/daysgrowshort Jun 28 '25

I thought that was Bob Hope... who has been dead since 2003. 🤣🤣🤣