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icarusancalion

A pleasure to read Dreamwidth

Apr 09, 2019 10:02

I had a friend on Facebook, the evil Facebook, who had cancer. An old childhood friend, and I followed her there to keep up with her health. Other friends, nuns and monks, my mother, were also Over There. So I disappeared for a time down the FB rathole. The algorithm's the worst. Any mood you're in gets intensified, you "like" one political post ( Read more... )

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__marcelo April 9 2019, 16:39:18 UTC

*waves hi*

I'm very sorry about your friend.

Any mood you're in gets intensified And that's by design, which is both infuriating and depressing and entirely predictable.

icarusancalion April 9 2019, 16:52:06 UTC

Yes, definitely by design. It should be called "downward spiral bood." I have friends there, but it's not where I want to be anymore. It's better to see people's real lives, and in a random order, not determined by an algorithm.

esteefee April 9 2019, 18:49:45 UTC

Welcome back! I'm so scared of FB, I admit. Although most of my old college buds are there. Hmm maybe that's why. heh.

icarusancalion April 9 2019, 20:05:00 UTC

I've been scared of LJ since the 2016 election. Not too pleased with Russian owners....

esteefee April 9 2019, 20:43:15 UTC

Yeah, I don't post there anymore.