I keep getting emails from someone at Facebook asking me to apply for some jobs there (presumably via LinkedIn, another social media account I desperately regret ever signing up for, and which I need to delete). I keep resisting the urge to reply, “Ha, ha, fuck no. I’d rather be unemployed, thanks!”
Given that it was started by a white-supremacist, Trump-supporting a-hole and then got bought by Facebook (and integrated into their surveillance operation), it’s one of those things that no one should have ever been using at any point.
A big part of the problem is that the algorithms don’t show you (just) what you’re looking for. They push things you weren’t looking for (sometimes more extreme versions of what you were looking at, but sometimes completely unrelated*) and lead you down rabbit holes into nasty places you wouldn’t have found on your own.
*I recollect an issue where viewers were starting off with like Minecraft videos and ending up with white supremacy…
