Facebook is not dying

Because I’m selling my first bike, I signed-up on Facebook with a temporary account¹. I lost some familiar with the tool — which I don’t use for at least ten years — and had registered to several groups because I needed to spam for my Marketplace announcement.

I rarely sign in, and only with a dedicated browser, and I noticed how it has become, much more than before, an infinite content trashcan. I have encountered racist, misogynistic, conspiracist, fanatical, false, extremist, religious, and violent posts.

I don’t see ads because I use NextDNS, and certainly, I have avoided a considerable quantity of other deviant material beyond which listed organically from the Meta’s amazing algorithm. Furthermore, I have the video autoplay off, so I ignored other rot.

Much of the contents are AI generated, but reading the comments — often, as the post, racists, misogynist, conspiracists, etcetera — I realize that most of the users don’t realize that are writing under fake images, artificial and used to emotionally involve them. They ignore, in a positive sense, what they’re commenting on.

Without wasting too much time and without the desire to build a statistic or documentation, and aware to be partial, synthetic and partisan, I have compiled a list of a post types that I saw in my fake account timeline.

• VIP before/after pictures that show how they are changed over time.
• Right-wing political messages.

• Religious pictures asking people to pray, appreciate and show compassion for disadvantaged people, workers who have their birthday, undernourished children and similar stuff.
• Tips on grafting plants.
• Food with recipes in the first comment.
• Pictures that demonstrate the transformation of famous women and their sexuality despite their age.
• Other right-wing political messages.
• Logic games who can resolve only those who posted and a commentator.
• Vignettes with racist, anti-Semitic or very ridiculous jokes.
• Nineties cartoon or manga images.
• Vacations place photos.
• Vacations place offers.
• Self made wood games.
• Right-wing political messages, over and over.

Facebook is not dying, I found it to be very dangerous for users who are weak, not informed, and have no digital mischief. The platform has made me more worried than I was before.

I hope to sell soon my bike.