Elon Musk

Youtube has gone the same way. Even before you watch a video there are 2 adverts. Halfway through the video there is another advert. There isn’t a social media platform that isn’t full of adverts anymore. TBF, Instagram isn’t bad.
 
jrb said:
Youtube has gone the same way. Even before you watch a video there are 2 adverts. Halfway through the video there is another advert. There isn’t a social media platform that isn’t full of adverts anymore. TBF, Instagram isn’t bad.
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At least ad blockers work on Youtube. On Facebook, they don't have adverts, they have sponsored posts. It's not so much adverts that piss me off, but those mountains of posts that you "might like." On Instagram it doesn't bother me so much, because it's mainly sexy dancing ladies.

 
Scottyboi said:
Facebook is a disgrace these days never post on it, all I see are adverts never anything from my friends or family. Has to be dying now as a platform.
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I’ve started to hate Facebook. I had to mute someone because, as an insomniac, she must have shared twenty memes over seven hours which meant scrolling through crap before I could find something interesting.

A mate of mine is seriously ill and he’s updating as and when as is his fiancée. I don’t want to miss anything.
 
MCFC Wirral said:
I’ve started to hate Facebook. I had to mute someone because, as an insomniac, she must have shared twenty memes over seven hours which meant scrolling through crap before I could find something interesting.

A mate of mine is seriously ill and he’s updating as and when as is his fiancée. I don’t want to miss anything.
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You miss nothing when you quit

Tell your mate you want to stay in contact as his on your thoughts etc - message or phone call means a lot more
 
MCFC Wirral said:
I’ve started to hate Facebook. I had to mute someone because, as an insomniac, she must have shared twenty memes over seven hours which meant scrolling through crap before I could find something interesting.

A mate of mine is seriously ill and he’s updating as and when as is his fiancée. I don’t want to miss anything.
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When Facebook started to become extremely popular - 2012 or so? - I excitedly opened an account.

Next thing - all sorts of alerts started appearing on my phone - and my email account was deluged with message spam.

Every single time any one of my "friends" posted anything - bam! - phone text and email message.

WTF?

I attempted to curtail all of this notification shit with mixed success.

Eventually I simply deleted my Facebook account.

Facebook isn't a platform designed to make exchange between you and your friends convenient - rather it's a platform designed to make as much money as possible - and by the way of accident - it's a social media platform too.
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Dump Facebook. Dump Twitter.

There's got to be much better alternatives to social media.
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
When Facebook started to become extremely popular - 2012 or so? - I excitedly opened an account.

Next thing - all sorts of alerts started appearing on my phone - and my email account was deluged with message spam.

Every single time any one of my "friends" posted anything - bam! - phone text and email message.

WTF?

I attempted to curtail all of this notification shit with mixed success.

Eventually I simply deleted my Facebook account.

Facebook isn't a platform designed to make exchange between you and your friends convenient - rather it's a platform designed to make as much money as possible - and by the way of accident - it's a social media platform too.
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Dump Facebook. Dump Twitter.

There's got to be much better alternatives to social media.
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If you code it... they will come.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
If you code it... they will come.
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Not necessarily.

Facebook however - was so attractive - enabling communication with your friends and like-minded individuals that most Facebook users either forgave their excesses or actually liked all the notifications/email spam.
 
The local scrubber has finally broken up with her fella after two reunions. This time, he cheated on her. She is a great girl deep down but very, very misguided.

I only knew this through FB.
 
grunge said:
It was only a matter of time. More outages will follow.
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It's been running badly for a wile. When it updates I only get a few tweets and all are over 12 hours old, if you keep refreshingit just sends the same content, or maybe something new but still old. Pre Musk it would be constantly feeding tweets almost all relatively new, a few hours old, many just minutes old. When something was going down like the Truss resignation you would get it on twitter within minutes. The way it works now I'd be none the wiser until the day after. Twitter is in regression, it's shit now.
 
aguero93:20 said:
Earth after rampant climate change, nuclear war, being hit by several asteroids and having every single supervolcano simultaneously erupt would still be more inhabitable than Mars.
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Just have no humans left on it. If there was a Mars ( or moon ) colony that had the ability to be self sufficient for a few years ( granted probably hundreds of years from now ) then it could re populate earth after the damage settles.
 
grunge said:
Just have no humans left on it. If there was a Mars ( or moon ) colony that had the ability to be self sufficient for a few years ( granted probably hundreds of years from now ) then it could re populate earth after the damage settles.
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Oh there would be humans left. Just a tiny fraction of what we have now and it wouldn't include the likes of you and me. You don't think we simultaneously have the ability to build a self sufficient colony on Mars but not the ability to build self-sustaining colonies on earth capable of surviving what I've described?
 
aguero93:20 said:
Oh there would be humans left. Just a tiny fraction of what we have now and it wouldn't include the likes of you and me. You don't think we simultaneously have the ability to build a self sufficient colony on Mars but not the ability to build self-sustaining colonies on earth capable of surviving what I've described?
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But what happens when the Vogons turn up and demolish Earth to make way for an interstellar bypass?
 
JRockBlues said:
But what happens when the Vogons turn up and demolish Earth to make way for an interstellar bypass?
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By the time they've finished getting the CPO processed through the courts we'll all have relocated to a different solar system anyway and the bypass will probably come in handy (once they solve the age old problem of Jupiter destroying near everything that tries to cross it's orbital path).
 
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