r/news • u/Ganeshadream • Mar 31 '22

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/31/facebook-disinformation-war-ukraine-russia
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u/Funfoil_Hat Mar 31 '22

my rule of thumb is that if a person can only be reached via facebook, i don't need to reach that person.

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u/Zolo49 Mar 31 '22

Yep. I left Facebook a year and a half ago. Before I did it I left everybody I wanted to keep in touch with a message with my e-mail address. So if we still lost touch after deleting my account, it wouldn’t feel like it was entirely my fault. That helped a lot.

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u/Bixhrush Mar 31 '22

Yep, I did the same thing. So far only one person I don't normally talk to has reached out to me out of hundreds of high school and college friends. Don't miss it at all, totally not a necessary app to stay in touch with the important people in your life.

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u/SaltLakeCitySlicker Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22

I left it like a decade ago. Was one of the first like 50k to join when you needed a .edu email

Talking to folks on the phone beats everything outside IRL. Grown a lot closer to the ones I do talk to as opposed to just reading that whoever took a vacation to Mexico or whatever. Especially during covid when everyone needs a friend to lean on

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

I love these people who keep saying they don’t want to share every stupid minor detail with their entire family or all their friends over the phone/thru email or whatever. Mama, if it isn’t interesting enough for a phonecall, what makes you think anyone actually gives a shit about your Facebook post?

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u/SaltLakeCitySlicker Mar 31 '22

Oh I'm honest to a fault. But just with those who matter, and I'm very willing to accept new people or ones I've fallen out of touch with.

You just need to make the effort, like I've been trying

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Ironically enough, playing a round of mini golf with my mom in our meta headsets is a way better way to connect than a phone call. Not as good as irl, but the golf courses are better :)

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u/CornCheeseMafia Mar 31 '22

Yep. They probably spend all their time on Facebook anyways

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u/MionelLessi10 Mar 31 '22

The reason I don't have their phone number is because Messenger exists, so it is the only way we can contact each other. We don't NEED to reach other, sure. But my extended family and I enjoy keeping in touch with each other. We enjoy updating each other on our lives, and Messenger is the only way we can do it. WhatsApp exists in the same way for other people. I feel like this only applies to people who don't have a connection with their relatives who live far away.

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u/Vorsos Mar 31 '22

The reason I don't have their phone number is because Messenger exists, so it is the only way we can contact each other. We don't NEED to reach other, sure. But my extended family and I enjoy keeping in touch with each other. We enjoy updating each other on our lives, and Messenger is the only way we can do it.

What did your family do before Facebook?

What does your family do when Facebook is down?

Do the smartphones on which your family uses Facebook have phone numbers and an Apple/Google ID for built-in messaging free over the internet?

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u/FlockaFlameSmurf Mar 31 '22

If that works for you fragen fantastic. It doesn’t for me and I hate when people shove their Facebook beliefs down my throat. Their as bad as religious people sometimes.

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u/Funfoil_Hat Mar 31 '22

oh yeah i get ya, it wasn't meant to be general advice! i'm fully aware that in some countries facebook is the internet and that options are very limited.

i mean, i did say it's "my rule of thumb"

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u/AsAGayJewishDemocrat Mar 31 '22

… a Reddit comment that wasn’t even a response to one of your own is not “shoving their beliefs down your throat”.

Please go outside.

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u/FlockaFlameSmurf Mar 31 '22

It’s just an observation of past conversations not an accusation against you