I recently decided to leave #Facebook, and posted a note to everyone to let me know contact info if they wanted to stay in touch.
So far, after just over a day, from people who I didn’t previously have any contact info:
- 3 emails w/updated address + cell/SMS number
- 10 new followers on Bluesky
- 1 new Mastodon/other Fed follower + 2 other people shared Fedi addresses
Not bad for just one day. I don’t expect everyone to give me their info, but it also confirms that the important people will still want to stay in touch.
Oh, more fun:
The last few times I've been in #Facebook , they shoved a bunch of reels in my face. And there is *always* one (I have not seen an exception) that has a young woman wearing anything from not very much to almost nothing at all.
That FB's algorithm thinks this is going to do what it wants me to do is amusingly comical -- either it doesn't have enough info to go on and so is just making a stupid guess, or it does and is simply confused and doesn't know what to do.
I'm not going to play it out much longer, because the account is going poof, but I could see this happening:
(young stereotypically sexy woman, time umpty-twelfth) "Nope"
"Ok how about young stereotypically sexy man?" "Still nope"
"Why not? You've liked a lot of LGBTQ+ posts/topics in the past" "Yep, but nope"
"Ok, how about..." "No. You will *never* figure it out, because it's not something that can be figured out by what you're presenting to me like this."
Called it.
While I was in #Facebook today scrubbing some old posts before I delete the whole thing, one of the unavoidable Reels previews was “stereotypically sexy young woman *and* stereotypically sexy young man.” So much nope. So much not going to work and so much they’ll never figure out why.