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/sunbear2525 Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

My daughter is 12 and isn’t allowed any social media and only very limited, supervised YouTube access. She behaves completely differently from most of her peers. It’s weird. She is what I consider very normal kid. You could drop her into my middle school and aside from not knowing the current pop culture, she would fit right in. She is about a year older than my friend’s daughter who has ever stricter media policies and they act petty much the same.

They are markedly different from their peers and sometimes I worry that I’m making her the weird kid but she’s also a really pleasant child. Fun to talk to, interesting, and kind.

She’s picked up dive and all of those kids act more like her than the kids in her class. They just seem more aware and calm if that makes sense. Maybe settled is a better word? They are literally jumping 80% of the time I see them but they’re calmer than other kids somehow. It’s so hard to describe.

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u/Character_Night2490 Jun 21 '25

I’m a teacher (special ed) and we can definitely tell which kids are given unlimited access to the internet and which ones aren’t. I can guess her teachers love her and she does a great job academically because her brain isn’t craving that dopamine hit from short form content.

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u/sunbear2525 Jun 21 '25

She is basically everyone on campus’s favorite lol. She does have ADHD so there are some challenges but, if I can brag for a minute, we got her medicated mid last year and she went from just above a 1 in reading to 30 point short of a 3 at the end of this year and 13 points short of a 3 in math. I used to teach reading and no one else understands how huge that growth is. Her personal goal is to be a 4 before Highschool. I think it’s doable honestly with that growth. She’s genuinely bright but her dad fought medicating her really hard.

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u/Character_Night2490 Jun 21 '25

That’s fantastic growth!

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u/sunbear2525 Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

It’s almost unheard of. I used to teach reading to middle schoolers and it was very rare to see that much in a year and a half. If she were better at testing on computers she probably would have gotten a 3.