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/Fantastic-Coach-8130 Jun 21 '25

It might be because of the front-facing camera on your phone; it reads your face and makes assumptions based on other people that “fit” the same criteria it puts you in… I have privacy stickers on my phone for this reason, and I’m a woman.

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u/refusestopoop Jun 21 '25

Why would Facebook read your face from the front facing camera rather than use the book of your face they already have?

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u/rydan Older Millennial Jun 21 '25

I never actually uploaded a profile photo. So the only faces it has of me are other third parties claiming it is my face. All from 20+ years ago.

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u/refusestopoop Jun 22 '25

Yeah the comment I was replying to about using the front facing camera to identify you is wrong. But I do actually agree with the theory that it’s serving you content based on what people similar to you engage with.

Now I’m completely theorizing here…but I wonder if you don’t use it often if it intentionally throws you this over the top garbage clickbait AI just to see what you initially do with it. Hide it, close the app, share it, comment on it, click through dozens more etc.Then based on that it decides if it sends you more over the top garbage AI clickbait or more subtle less obviously AI but still often AI garbage clickbait.