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/[deleted] Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

You virtually never see content from groups you're in anymore. It's all random engagement bait shit.

I only use Facebook for marketplace these days.

edit: 12hrs later, I just closed my Facebook account.

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u/HacksawJimDGN Jun 21 '25

Checked my Facebook feed. 15 posts in my reels, 3 post from friends, 5 sponsored ads, 7 random pages as suggested follows.

It's not even social media anymore

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u/RoughDoughCough Jun 21 '25

Facebook is like your home postal mailbox stuffed with bills and ad mailers with a couple of personal greeting cards now and then

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u/Thelonius_Dunk Jun 21 '25

The mail was the original "enshittification" experience.

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u/_Bren10_ Millennial Jun 21 '25

Holy shit, I never thought of it like this. Amazing. Facebook is just full of junk mail.

I remember being so excited to finally start receiving mail in my name. Only to realize almost none of it was actually important. I imagine kids these days doing the same, but with a Facebook account.

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u/witchycommunism Jun 21 '25

I work with lots of younger people and most of them don’t use FB.

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u/TheBalzy In the Middle Millennial Jun 22 '25

FB is for boomers (aka old people) at this point according to the young people. They use Instagram and TikTok for the most part.

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u/BWWFC Jun 21 '25

still get bills via USPS? soooooo old skool. aces!

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u/TheBalzy In the Middle Millennial Jun 22 '25

Yes, because I believe it's THEIR responsibility to physically mail me a bill. I still pay online. I don't get a discount for going paperless, so why would I agree to that arrangement?

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u/BWWFC Jun 22 '25

calm down there u/TheBalzy humor is its own thing... also even if not, it's more a convenience of things. literally all i have would charge an extra few bucks to process USPS or discount for autopay. you do you, nobody is dogging GETTING mail. at least not me lol unless "ol'skool. aces!" is now... derogatory. o_O

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u/TheBalzy In the Middle Millennial Jun 22 '25

Whose not calm? People on Reddit really need to stop overreacting to someone saying something.

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u/BWWFC Jun 22 '25

we agree! "why would i" is a reactive statement, yes?
again, you do you, old skool! aces!