Sunday, August 12th, 2018 Alive 17,274 days
My Facebook feed this morning:
- An important service alert from a transit agency in some other city.
- An obviously fake friend request from someone who thinks a Sharpie is an eyebrow pencil.
- A promoted post from some company Iʼve never heard of pushing something I donʼt care about.
- “People You May Know” who are all people I donʼt know.
- Someone elseʼs memory of an event 5 years ago I wasnʼt at and donʼt care about.
- A post from a “neighborhood” group on the other side of town.
- A “Suggested Post” about something I donʼt care about.
- A post in a language that I donʼt speak, but thatʼs OK because I do follow the Yomiuri Giants.
- A post from the state parks people about a state park 400 miles away.
- An image caption repost of a repost of a repost of a repost from someone who thinks that lifeʼs problems can be solved by re-posting other peopleʼs refrigerator magnet thoughts.
- An ad for a coffee chain in another city with no locations within 700 miles.
- A “Breaking News” weather alert about a dust storm last week.
- A news item that a local TV station posted three months ago.
- A photograph of someone I donʼt know who is friends with someone who is friends with someone who might know this person
- A photo from an actual Facebook friend, but itʼs of his tween daughter in a leotard. Ummm…
- An ad for a coffee chain in another country.
- One of those “URGENT! URGENT!1!11!! Please help us find out dog!” re-posts from someone 2,500 miles away.
- A re-post of a image caption thatʼs been around since the 1990ʼs.
Good job, Facebook. Glad to see the $70 billion spent on “user engagement AI” is working out for you.