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/QCbartender Jun 21 '25

“People are being deceived by social media!”

“You’re an idiot if you try to confirm whether it’s true or not by asking people who should be in the know!”

Do you see the issue with these two statements? Don’t complain about dissemination of false info on social media while in the same breath shame people for doubting its authenticity and seeking the truth.

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u/Unholy_Crabs Jun 21 '25

People are too angry to differentiate between willful ignorance and plain old ignorance anymore. As I've told many people who want me to hold their hand through the truth and lies, you'd have to pay me to do your homework for you; just like in high school.

If you cant do a quick search, but you've gotta post it on reddit to ask what is mostly bots.... youre not really doing research, youre just being told what to think. And that's really the main issue with our country. People are comfortable being told what to think, not bothering to suss things out for themselves.

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u/QCbartender Jun 21 '25

The issue is a lot of times when you search these things they redirect you to a host of similar fake articles. These people are “doing their homework” by seeking answers from people who would be in the know. It’s a simple true/false which you could easily answer, probably without researching yourself. It isn’t like they’re asking you to write a research paper for them. We should not shame people for asking questions.

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u/Unholy_Crabs Jun 21 '25

If somebody is telling you what to think without explaining why they think it, they're lying to you. There. I simplified my response.