[Technology] When did Facebook become a scam site?

fork me · Dec 1, 2024

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
I just went on Facebook for the first time in maybe a year. In my feed was an intriguing link to a BBC news report. Except it isn't. Its a fake site:

https://puxmit.site/andsomeother bollocks I have deleted

Very disappointing as Facebook is the only link I have to a lot of people I may want to chat with maybe only once every year or so. I thought they were above all that shit. Live and learn

It's been that way for a long time. Their algorithms are shit. Fake news scams get though, but my RockCyprus website, a community site advertising what goes on in the rock and metal community was blocked for a few months as scam. (It's allowed again now). Bizarrly, they didn't block our facebook or instagram accounts, just links to our website. (Which I just looked at and desperately needs updating - looks like I have a busy afternoon.)

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herecomesaregular · Dec 1, 2024

I've been on FB many moons for limited reasons. I love the help Brighton Cat Group has given me with my rescue cat and I buy and sell on Marketplace all the time.

It helps I have only 7 friends on there (mostly ex work colleagues I keep incase I need a reference but I don't follow or communicate with them).

I only buy and sell locally face to face and for cash so avoiding scammers is easy.

AmexRuislip · Dec 1, 2024

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
I just went on Facebook for the first time in maybe a year. In my feed was an intriguing link to a BBC news report. Except it isn't. Its a fake site:

https://puxmit.site/andsomeother bollocks I have deleted

Very disappointing as Facebook is the only link I have to a lot of people I may want to chat with maybe only once every year or so. I thought they were above all that shit. Live and learn

I've just found out where you live.
Asparagus Towers in Faversham-on-Sea.
Who'd have thought

LamieRobertson · Dec 1, 2024

Weststander said:
I’ve a very longstanding FB account, which I log into once a year to catch up with extended family and relatives. I always feel slightly guilty that I missed happy birthday messages sent to me 10 months ago.

People tell me there’s a load of propaganda on FB eg the likes of Le Tiss, assorted left and right wing nuts, and aggressive political arguments. I can’t see it … presumably because I always ignored the ultra opinionated on FB, trying to ram their one-eyed views on everyone else. Once involved, the algorithms have you.

Another tedious thing, we mocked this circa ten years back, insecure parents giving a running commentary on their brats achievements. From swimming 100m, passing the cycling test in Preston Park, exam results and twats publicly claimimg that their 14 year old is the best skier or cricketer or singer for their age .

Happy birthday

LamieRobertson · Dec 1, 2024

herecomesaregular said:
I've been on FB many moons for limited reasons. I love the help Brighton Cat Group has given me with my rescue cat and I buy and sell on Marketplace all the time.

It helps I have only 7 friends on there (mostly ex work colleagues I keep incase I need a reference but I don't follow or communicate with them).

I only buy and sell locally face to face and for cash so avoiding scammers is easy.

Likewise…ive found it very useful in that respect ..especially for small/large items i wouldnt want to try and flog on eBay …no issues to date apart from a few annoying messages.

Easy 10 · Dec 1, 2024

I don't post much on it, and I would never even consider buying something via FB. I do like a doomscroll though and follow some groups that regularly make me LOL (Dull Mens Club and Viz primarily). Old Football Grounds is often fascinating. I am also addicted to Quiz Planet, play a couple of people I know regularly on that.

Much like Twitter, if you follow the right things you can largely filter out the crap you don't want to see.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Dec 1, 2024

fork me said:
It's been that way for a long time. Their algorithms are shit. Fake news scams get though, but my RockCyprus website, a community site advertising what goes on in the rock and metal community was blocked for a few months as scam. (It's allowed again now). Bizarrly, they didn't block our facebook or instagram accounts, just links to our website. (Which I just looked at and desperately needs updating - looks like I have a busty afternoon.)

RockCyprus | Wanna Rock? Let's do it!

RockCyprus is the home ground for all rock music related information in Cyprus. We provide information about the bands, when they perform, where they perform and a whole collection of other interesting information. We are proud to be powered by I-TRVL. Wanna Rock? Let's do it!

rockcyprus.org

(I haven't edited that).

A delightful Freudian slip.
Heavy metal fan? Tock.
Big tits fan? Tick.

:lolol:

El Presidente · Dec 1, 2024

I am honoured to share with you that I’ve stopped using #Facebook and instead am delighted to reveal that I am using #LinkedIn instead. This #allows me to #network with like minded high performance #professionals and also learn from those at the #Top of their game such as Jake Humphrey and Dean Gaffney.

#Utter #Bollocks #SocialMedia

fork me · Dec 1, 2024

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
(I haven't edited that).

A delightful Freudian slip.
Heavy metal fan? Tock.
Big tits fan? Tick.

LOL, I've edited it now!

Paulie Gualtieri · Dec 1, 2024

“Will you take a five for it”?

No,

“Why not”?

Well it’s listed for £20

“Well I’m only willing to pay a fiver”

Well that’s a shame.

—- two hours later——

“Would you be willing to sell it for £11?

No

“Why not”?

Rinse and repeat

herecomesaregular · Dec 1, 2024

Paulie Gualtieri said:
“Will you take a five for it”?

No,

“Why not”?

Well it’s listed for £20

“Well I’m only willing to pay a fiver”

Well that’s a shame.

—- two hours later——

“Would you be willing to sell it for £11?

No

“Why not”?

Rinse and repeat

Is it available?

I've become immune to annoying messages and people who change their mind and just don't turn up/don't let you know.

The Antikythera Mechanism · Jan 2, 2025

I phoned a company in Wakefield, this morning, to make a complaint and soon after, this appeared on my Facebook feed.

The Clamp · Jan 2, 2025

Paulie Gualtieri said:
“Will you take a five for it”?

No,

“Why not”?

Well it’s listed for £20

“Well I’m only willing to pay a fiver”

Well that’s a shame.

—- two hours later——

“Would you be willing to sell it for £11?

No

“Why not”?

Rinse and repeat

It’s angering. I listed an e-bike for sale on FB, as well as other sites.

£700

Lots of what I assume were food delivery types trying to haggle. Didn’t bother me too much.

One guy tried to do a straight swap for an absolute piece of shit bike he had.

But the one who made me angry was the chancer who went all round the houses with his messages, asking questions that were answered in the advert and then came out with;

“Right, let’s get down to business (after two days of back and forth bullshit).. I have mobility issues, hence my need for a bike.
Because of this I am currently unemployed. You must take this into consideration, would you take £150? And can you deliver”?

My response before blocking him was;

No and No.

Algernon · Jan 2, 2025

The Antikythera Mechanism said:
I phoned a company in Wakefield, this morning, to make a complaint and soon after, this appeared on my Facebook feed.
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Obvs (as the kids say) nobody could ever have the surname Feltersnatch.
But as you, genuinely I've been at work today and earlier on I saw this story and didn't make the connection that I'd dealt with a driver returning from Wakefield this morning.
I can't recall ever mentioning Wakefield a single solitary time in the past other than this morning and it seems strange that this story should pop onto my feed midday today.
Facebook isn't listening to what we say.......oh no it isn't.

seagull_special · Jan 2, 2025

WATFORD zero said:
My daughter set me up a Facebook account years ago and made me her friend. She then realised that I could see all her friends and unfriended me. For the last 15 years I have had an account with no friends. I get the occasional e-mail telling me someone wants to be my friend and I immediately turn them down.

Works a treat for me

That’s what’s known as Anti-Social Media

Cheshire Cat · Jan 2, 2025

I spend half my time on Facebook blocking ads and other crap feeds full of videos I have no interest in and no idea why they keep appearing even after I've blocked them. Their algorithm is completely awful.

The Clamp · Jan 2, 2025

Binned off FB ages ago. Never had Instagram, never had Twitter or any of the others.

I can see why some people make use of them and each to their own.

Just because it’s my genuine belief that social media is at best a government/corporate brain washing tool and at worst a vehicle for Satan to transcend the metaphysical and have presence and control in every aspect of our conscious and unconscious life and that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are Belzebub’s representatives on Earth*, doesn’t mean others shouldn’t enjoy it.

*I do actually believe this, metaphorically speaking.

The Clamp · Jan 2, 2025

As a friend said to me the other day;

We thought the internet was going to be a global village but we just got the village idiots with pitchforks and burning crosses.

I happen to think NSC is one of the forces for good online. There was a point before Covid with the bear pit stuff and my own input boring me, that I thought about giving it up. But it’s returned to a much nicer place now.

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