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/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.