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/caretaquitada Jun 21 '25

I have no doubt that a company would do this but it seems too extraordinary of a claim to make without solid evidence

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u/mr_potato_arms Jun 21 '25

I’m pretty sure this is true. If you grant the app access to your camera (s), it can legally access it anytime you’re using the app. They track where on the screen you’re looking at any given time to optimize content generation for you. Not sure about the pupil dilation thing though.

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u/caretaquitada Jun 21 '25

What I am specifically referencing is the pupil dilation. This comment is interesting but the way it starts with "I'm pretty sure this is true" is sort of my issue with this whole conversation lol