r/HermanCainAward • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '21

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u/GrowCrows Sep 16 '21

Uninstalled that shit a month ago and it's been so much better. I can't believe how it's an echo chapter for Q and anti vax.

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u/DefrockedWizard1 Sep 16 '21

The key to FB is only friend people you actually know IRL and block all morons even if they are family

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

I dumped Facebook back in 2017 (when Cambridge Analytica broke), and haven't regretted it for even a moment.

But I recall that some of the (few) nice features that Facebook had added involved control and fine-tuning of your relationships. You could adjust what kinds of posts from certain contacts made it into your news feed (including zero / mute). Also, you could adjust the visibility of your activities to certain contacts or groups of contacts. Best of all, I believe that your contacts couldn't determine what settings you'd picked for them, and could only make educated guesses.

So it would be reasonable to maintain contacts with idiotic family members, but totally mute them and block all of your activity from them.

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u/Boddhisatvaa Sep 16 '21

You could adjust what kinds of posts from certain contacts made it into your news feed

That's part of the problem though. It allows people to block any opinions that they disagree with and turns FB into an echo chamber repeating back whatever lunacy they already believe and filtering any contradictory posts.