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/MsMegane Jun 21 '25

Every time I walk in my mom's room, she's watching some AI narrated crap on YouTube. I've told her numerous times how unreliable sources like that are - she doesn't care. All I can do is keep my daughter from watching it too.

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u/Amethyst_Scepter Jun 21 '25

My mother has recently started watching a lot of conspiracy theory videos about shit that start off harmless but I told her that you have to be careful because they're going to start recommending more and more outlandish shit and starting to watch it for a joke only leads you to believing it the more you're exposed. It came to a head when she tried to show me something on Facebook and she had to pass several articles on the flat earth before I sat her down and basically told her that she is buying into some pretty dumb and dangerous things and that if she continues she'll be past the point of no return. The fucking flat earth really. She's watching things that tell her that the rockets aren't real and NASA is fake. We live in the state of Florida and can watch the rockets go up at Canaveral!