I check Facebook a few times a week mainly to stay updated on family and friends and to wish the occasional happy birthday (I’m not a heavy user). Meta aggressively pushes AI-generated “slop” reel videos in my feed, which I mostly ignore. It’s depressing that there must be an audience for this low-effort content. The videos recommended to me are often AI reels featuring obese people doing something “unexpected.” They’re not particularly interesting, and they feel like they’re mocking people with weight issues which isn’t cool.
I stopped using social media even to stay connected - I look at hacker news to stay up to date with tech, and reddit for cyber security related subs but the FBPurity I installed a year or so ago, and my account was still small just friends and family of maybe ~30-50 people. Mostly, for an animal shelter I volunteer at and community events.
Installing it, scrolling down was constant sponsor ads being blocked, reels of women from bot accounts that steal influencers' videos and repost them, new-age spirituality memes 'Let go of what does not serve you' and 'Return to Source to find your real self' - quotes from philosophers who never said the quote, 'How to hack' tutorial images -- all removed from fbpurity
I'd have to scroll for a minute before getting anything from the local community groups, the shelter's posts, and rarely did I see somebody else's post, and usually it was talking about Trump or politics or 'are we in a simulation?' but for the most part it's all brain rot.
Toxic, deceptive brain rot. There's no use trying to get others to exit the psychological magnet that has them hooked and doom scrolling and posting non-stop with their views.
The botfarms would plague every local community group and most people activity were calling out the bots. Bots swaying the comments on posts' comment sections for local news, people getting LIVID in the comments over trolls/bots.
Businesses being FB exclusive only with no Google presence, no maps presence.
Delete it, trust me, you'll be happier. There is no 'purity'
